via joshua

this tls article (PDF) by Ronald Wright: "Fools' Paradise: Easter Island's unlearned lesson."

two responses to the misspelling "becuase"

(1) Dvorak-analytic [blame the mechanism]:

The right hand's trigger-finger loses patience at "U", and enters the stage before the quartet of left-hand letters "B", "E", "C", and "A" can complete their lines. [naturally, I prefer this explanation]

(2) Poetic-emotional [curse the wor(l)d]

link [not too bad, either]

What's wrong with this web page?

link

[Give up? Read the answer]

A question posed about online course management systems

Course Management Systems: Trapped Content Silos or Sharing Platforms? (PDF)

An excerpt

However, while more and more faculty and programs have come to rely upon course management systems over the past few years, rapid technology and business changes (mergers, elimination of products, etc.) have brought about a sense of discomfort in the community.

Questions arise: 1) How invested is my institution in one platform? 2) If I put my material in a CMS, can I get it out? 3) What happens if my institution switches systems? 4) How do I share materials between systems? 5) If I have just arrived from an institution that uses a different CMS, how do I use what I have already created? 6) How can my content development work be "future proofed" against CMS changes?

The answer to these questions is as follows

1) overinvested.
2) probably not.
3) you lose everything.
4) you don't, easily.
5) you can't.
6) don't use a "course management system" for pedagogic material:

We've arrived at the answer to the question posed by this paper: Trapped Content Silos.

Strawberry Tsunami vs Strawberry Nirvana

Gloria noticed that they're not selling the "Strawberry Tsunami" flavor any more at the Jamba Juice in the Tresidder student union on the Stanford campus. It might have been replaced by something called "Strawberry Nirvana." You can still buy a Strawberry Tsunami in Hawaii. But on another web page for a Concord, CA shopping mall, it looks like "Strawberry Tsunami" and "Strawberry Nirvana" are different drinks.