April Fools
“Papa, there’s a black hole behind you” – my five-year-old’s version of an April Fool’s joke.
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“Papa, there’s a black hole behind you” – my five-year-old’s version of an April Fool’s joke.
We’ve had a pair of Cooper’s Hawks in the tree right outside the Grand Reading Room this week. Beautiful birds.
I wouldn’t say that I’m addicted to eBay, but I do like to find a good bargain now and then. Finding just the right item can be a major time drain, though. So, I was pleased to hear that eBay has enabled keyword-generated RSS for monitoring new search results. Just do a search as usual, …
So how’d they get the sign out there? Posted to Madison Snaps, Isthmus.com
From the University of Wisconsin–Madison News – Viewer beware: Study finds flaws in TV news coverage of health Local television newscasts, where most Americans get most of their news, are packed with medical stories and health information. But the first-ever national study of that coverage finds many problems with it, and sees room for improvement …
You decide what Einstein writes in the fun little web tool from Hetemeel.com. What text would you want to appear in the famous photo of Einstein writing the E=MC2 equation? I chose one of Einstein’s quotes.
From Dane 101: The University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has hooked up a webserver to the internet and issued a general challenge for people to hack it in an attempt to prove that Mac OS X is a fairly secure operating system. The challenge comes as a response to another contest reported …
Cougar, a Madison-based instrumental post-rock band, had sampled UW Law Prof and blogger, Ann Althouse’s voice on two songs from its debut album, Law, including the first track, “Atlatl.” From the Isthmus: “Atlatl” is available for listening on Cougar’s myspace profile, where it was uploaded in early February. The song is a moderately-paced guitar instrumental …
Cougar, a Madison-based instrumental post-rock band, had sampled UW Law Prof and blogger, Ann Althouse’s voice on two songs from its debut album, Law, including the first track, “Atlatl.” From the Isthmus: “Atlatl” is available for listening on Cougar’s myspace profile, where it was uploaded in early February. The song is a moderately-paced guitar instrumental …
My colleague, Jenny Zook, has written a short article on click to donate sites for the UW Law School Newsletter. These sites donate part of their advertising revenue to charity whenever you use their search engine or click on an advertisement from their home page.