Or the strange case of Drs E. Embuggerance and H. Feisty.
This has already been reported on several other blogs but it’s too good not to share again. Looks like Google Scholar needs to work on its automatic metadata generation algorithm:
Embuggerance, E., and H. Feisty. 2008. The linguistics of laughter. English Today 1, no. 04: [...]
Damn few and they’re aw deid!
Famous deid people namechecked at #cetis09
Charles Darwin
Clarence Darrow
Marshall McLuhan (second year running!)
Les Dawson
Aldous Huxley
William Shakespeare
Joseph Schumpeter
Stieg Larsson
Famous deid programmes….
The MAC Initiative
And a couple of deid bands…
The Clash
Lindisfarne (thanks Oleg!)
Several people have already picked up on this on twitter. Meet della from Dell for all you girlies needing to “simplify your life with technology”.
“Tech tips” include:
Get healthier: Use your mini to track calories, carbs and protein with ease, watch online fitness videos, map your running routes and more.
Eat better: Find recipes [...]
Qotd from two year old daughter in response to seven year old boy:
7 year old boy: “Rhuna you’re a genius!”
2 year old daughter: “I’m not a genius, I’m a girl.”
Girl being one step up from genius obviously….
Famous deceased name checked at cetis08.
Plato
Herbert Marcuse
Martin Heidegger
Jean Francois Lyotard
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Josef Stalin
Peter Kropotkin
Marshall Mcluhan
Cozy Powell
Without a doubt the zenith of the recent CETIS08 conference has to be the evolution of a new concept in educational technology - eduprog.
(copyright: it’s Phil’s fault)
Eduprog crystalised from the domains of metadata, repositories, educational technology and unusual puddings and is set to challenge edupunk as the real underground movement of the moment. [...]
MIMAS totally looks like the Death Star
Mimas being one of the moons of Saturn obviously….
http://totallylookslike.com/2008/09/05/mimas-totally-looks-like-the-death-star/
The official tag for the recent Dublin Core Conference in Berlin is dc2008berlin however my colleague John Robertson noted that more than a few conference participants had uploaded images to flickr tagged dc2008. This tag also turns up lots of holiday snaps from Washington DC along with images from some rather more exotic events [...]
I recently heard a reading of the Tang Dynesty (8th century) poet Du Fus Ballad of the Army Carts on the radio. Normally Im not a fan of radio poetry, I find it a bit trite, but this was sufficiently moving to make me stop what I was doing and listen. Its a [...]
