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We’re officially on break now. That means it’s time to play around with Wordpress themes. This one is called Panorama. I kind of like minimalist wordpress themes, and this one is not very minimalist. I don’t know how long I’ll be able to stick with it. If I do keep it, I definitely need to [...]
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The newest version of Ubuntu, an open-source Linux operating system, comes out in just a week. The beta has been out for a while. I don’t know if I can wait. Since I don’t have to pay the folks at Canonical for this awesome piece of software, I figured that the least I can do [...]
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We spend about $1.3 million dollars on technology each year. I just looked at the details concerning how that $1.3 is spent, and it seems pretty clear to me that a switch to open-source software plus some cuts in spending on computer labs would easily give us the resources to buy every student a netbook. [...]
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So I figured out a way to make it VERY, VERY easy for Sympoze users to submit links to philosophy blog posts from Google Reader. It’s as easy as clicking the “share” button. That’s it. Anytime, you click the share button, the blog post you’re reading will be automatically submitted to Sympoze in your name. [...]
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Philosopher’s Digest is a new online (open access!) resource for philosophers. Here’s the description from the site. Philosopher’s Digest is a tool designed to help philosophers stay abreast of interesting work in the field by publishing short reviews of articles appearing in top journals.  Articles are selected by our reviewers for the significance of the [...]
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I was just invited to contribute an article to The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Frege’s Puzzle! I said yes this morning, and within a few minutes my name was already up on the site where the entry will go. This is not an April Fools’ Joke - Click here and scroll down to the [...]
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I just found a Twitter Module for Sympoze. You can now link a Twitter account to your Sympoze profile so that any time submit a story to your Twitter status will automatically be updated with the title and link to the story. You can add your Twitter account under “My Account.” You also have to [...]
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Ben Caplan is giving a talk tonight at 6PM in Fenton 108. The title of the talk is “Against Sonicism” - and the general topic of the talk is ontology of art. Here is a link to Ben Caplan’s review of Julian Dodd’s book. Dodd’s book is a defense of Sonicism, so Caplan’s discussion in [...]
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It seems to be pretty well established that the manner in which information is digested has an impact on both short term and long term retention of the material. For example, people who study in short bursts with frequent breaks in between retain more information than people who sit down for a 2 hour uninterrupted [...]
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