In both of Ray Bradbury’s short stories, The Veldt and There Will Come Soft Rains, Bradbury warns the reader…
I found this really great video that skims the surface of the history of typography and gives some interesting facts to think about. For example, Gutenburg created the first font, Blackletter and italics was created to fit more letters on a page and save money. I won’t spoil anymore…
As I read “Books in the Age of the iPad” by Craig Mod, I created a pros and cons list of the traditional paper book versus the new digital book. However, the pros and cons lists appear equally matched so one is not better than the other. It all comes down to preference. I…
Describing the internet is weird and hard. I think of the internet as a shared notebook. Everyone passes it around and adds their own ideas. They read what everyone else wrote and add to it or cross it out. They highlight parts of it and write little notes about it on the side. However…
The video “A Vision of Students Today” was incredibly accurate about our use of technology and how it affects our academics.
It was interesting to see the statistics of how much time students spend doing activites on the internet versus activities off the…
This is a text based game I made that won’t really make too much sense to those who don’t go to UMW because it includes terms like “apogee” “crapogee” “HCC” “Eagle” etc. I realize this means my game is for a niche market, but I’m not making money off of it so why not!
I answered this question a few weeks earlier. I compared the internet to a notebook that is passed around for everyone to add their thoughts, to contribute to its creation. I still think this comparison is true. I first pictured the notebook as being filled with scribbles of…
The text I chose to plug into wordle was every tweet I have tweeted since May 22, 2015. I would have gone further back, but Twitter stops…
I hated the ending. Unless I missed something, it wasn’t clear. Why did Rick go into the desert? Is Rick the new Mercer? Why did Rachel throw his goat of the roof? Why does Iran think Rick cares about the Toad? Is reality a lie?
