art:text come together

Wordle your way to some pretty cool art.  In about a second.  I was turned on to this web tool as an assignment this semester, strangely enough.  The basic idea is that you make a collage with words, and then personalize it using options like font, color, spacing, and language.  The result is pretty fun.  [...]

Free college?!?

So apparently a one-world order is beginning in the mashed-up form of social networking, higher ed, and pure craziness.  Enter the University of the People.  Lightly blanketed communist bootcamp?  No, just the brainchild of Shai Reshef, an entrepreneur who’s already done his share of online ventures in the business world.
While enrollment wouldn’t be completely free, [...]

Do you Yale?

I know, it’s a short order to fill. But now anyone can participate and get a taste of one of the Ivies in their own office, bedroom, kitchen, or … toilet even. I don’t care, and I don’t want to know. But if you have an Internet connection you can go to [...]

A New Way to Google: TouchGraph

You know who you are – the kid who sat in the back row and doodled endlessly because the drone of Ms. Frizzle’s history lesson promised nothing but boredom and maybe a few chuckles on the new ‘do. Reading lists or paragraphs didn’t quite cut it; listening to a lecture just went in one [...]

A New Way to Read: BookGlutton

Check out this new e-book reader.  It’s in beta, but you can sign up to try it out.  Looks like it combines the social web with traditional e-reading at a level not yet seen.  Basically, you can read a book while chatting with someone else who’s reading the same book at [...]

Virtual Arcade Games: Library Style

Quite recently, some good people at Carnegie Mellon have come up with two amusing virtual arcade games.  Okay, no harm there.  But the kicker?  They’re library games; one focused on shelving accuracy, and the other focused on helping patrons with reference questions.  Nerdy?  Yes.  Helpful with training green students?  Maybe.  I’m thinking of trying this [...]

Want to stalk people?

Good news!  You’ve got more options than just plain old Google.  Here are some of the sites I’ve found amusing:
Wink.com – This site gleans information from MySpace accounts and general websites.  Search by name, location or keyword.
Spock.com – This site also gets much of its information from MySpace accounts.  It also lets you search by [...]