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I've been reading philosophy and ecology papers, trying to get ahead of my students on the fly with courses I took over mid-semester. Si...

My computational hours are still taken up with preparations for the classes I'm teaching, but Sherry Chandler has posted a miscellany o...

Since 2006, I've participated in a "silent poetry reading" for the Feast Day of St. Brigid (or in honor of some more pagan Br...

As part of the "adjunct army" that teaches a great chunk of the post-secondary academic courses, I'm painfully conscious of t...

Art of the Rural has a complete and interesting recap of the Stephen Bloom kerfuffle in "The Atlantic." I wasn't really curi...

Via Mirabilis.ca : A long sentence is worth the read --by Pico Iyer . Not everyone wants to be reduced to a sound bite or a bumper sticker....

Sometimes I teach undergraduate college classes. As an adjunct faculty member, I don't pick the textbooks or write my own syllabus, so I...

Today at Open Culture: The best free cultural & educational media on the web , a link to a wonderful video: J.R.R. Tolkien in His Own Wo...

This is wonderful, and Taylor Mali has much more, like:

Was Valentine's Day disappointing? Could Kitty be responsible? "Single White Feline."

Last week Sherry's latest batch of cool "Stuff#21" sent me on a chain of hypertext links that led me back home again, literal...

It's time for the Sixth Annual Bridgid Poetry Feast . There's a Facebook page for it, but I'm cranky about Facebook and won...

Sometimes I find work teaching people to use Microsoft Office components. Sadly, I am responsible for introducing a few people to the use of...

Sometimes I just feel perplexed by modern novels of the sort the New York Times reviews--the type that are chosen for literary prizes and ta...

The last few months, I've been exploring the world of Internet book-swapping sites, specifically Bookmooch and Paperback Swap. To my ...

I always love an event that features free stuff and sales, so I took notice of Read an E-Book Week (March 7-13). Their website features a l...

I'm never sure if the themes I find in my reading come to me from the outside world, or if my subliminal, half-formed thoughts cherry-pi...

This collection of copyright-related articles concerns Digital Rights Management (DRM). Personally, I won't buy DRM-protected books, mus...

I'm still reading copyright issues articles, and the collection keeps on growing. You could call this set "Sherlock Holmes and the ...

My collection of articles on copyright issues, the public domain, open source materials, and digital rights management (DRM) continues to sp...