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• @joshhechinger Ah, that makes perfick sense… No, you are right, guitar-thrashing based gaming will NOT help with that issue… #
• Ok, universe, you’ve had enough ‘Nick’ for one day… Buh’bye & nuh’night. Have good & proper sleepsies. #
• Went through Girl One’s Personal Statement for her application to teaching course. First time her new career choice has slipped into focus. #
• … It actually suddenly makes perfect sense for her to be doing it, & I’m very proud of her. But don’t tell her nor nothing… #

• @josiefraser Some of us had social stuff to do with birthdaying friend. Stupid birthdays! Stupid friends! Already think I’ve been spoilered. #
• We had a pleasant night eating barbecue, playing games and watching Superbad. Superbad is supergood. I can get behind films like this… #
• Bad news about Michael Turner. Again, stepping away from the computer for a few hours has made it feel like the world has gone nuts a bit. #
• Not 2 hours after laughing at a reference about how the Coen Brothers don’t make porn, I discover that they actually HAVE! Ta, @raquelita #
• @joshhechinger If Guitar Hero doesn’t constitute “escape” I don’t know what does… #

• @vanessay Velociprocrastinator, surely? Yes, I know it’s about six or seven hours later, but what is a chap to do…? #
• @courosa Dan Meyer’s videos are indispensable… thanks for pointing them out! http://tinyurl.com/6hyna3 for anyone who didn’t see the post. #
• My colleagues seem to find the idea of me as a high-class escort funny…So now I feel like I’ve got something to prove… #

Dan Meyer has made a commitment to produce a series of ten vodcasts over the summer. The two that he has posted so far are, I reckon, indispensable, especially as an eLearning professional.

First up, Earn The Medium. In which he talks about using the right tools for the job:

Then we have “The Next-Gen Lecturer”. In which he talks about his own evolution into the multi-media capable lecturer that he is today.

His blog is pretty interesting, and you can subscribe to his feed there, to eagerly await the next eight videos: http://blog.mrmeyer.com/

(Found at the Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy blog.)

• @lexia That was the problem with Powweb, when I launched Elephant Words. Now they’re not so bad, but I suspect expensive… #
• WHAT? There’s a 24 The Series energy drink? Let me answer my own question… Yes. Yes there is. But there’s no time to talk about that now! #
• @tonymoore Uh, this might seem a personal question from someone you don’t know, but does that help with snoring? #
• @vanessaY Blueberry muffin wonderful? Are they sendable through the postals? You made my tummy grumble, on a 4 hour delay…? #
• This is hilarious: Nuclear Missiles Could Blow Up Like Popcorn: http://tinyurl.com/52776y. #
• No, wait, what was the other one? Terrifying, that’s it. This is terrifying. J points out the shonkiness of the phrase “assessed as safe”. #
• @vanessaY I’ve heard about this sort of thing before: You are withholding muffin! In some cultures, that is considered an act of cruelty #
• @vanessaY Well, yeah, we have bakeries. But they don’t tend to put the “AWESOME!!” (note capitals) in, the way I know you always do… #
• @vanessaY I kinda guessed it was a longshot, anyway. Mmm, Longshot… he was always my favourite off the wall three-fingered alien dude… #
• There’s a kid who at the oldest is about 12-13, & a girl, who in the way of such things has just been hit, ever such a little, by puberty… #
• … But in fact is probably the same age as her much younger looking boy. Anyway, they are in a clinch, just off the main drag here… #
• … It is the most awkward & earnest attempt at adolescent sexuality I have seen – that I didn’t live through myself, that is… #
• Privacy, Competence, Passion, Family Values, Discretion: Fail! Cuteness? MAJOR WIN! Although, y’know, probably not supposed to think so… #
• Ok, after a shaky start, the 2nd season of Torchwood is alright. Took me a while to get round to watching them cos of low expectations… #
• Though I can live without the rebirth of Tosh’s doe-eyed lust for wossname with the ratty eyes… #
• Oh Gok, will you never learn…? #

Julius von Bismarck has created an apparatus that projects an image onto a subject as others take pictures of it, by detecting camera flashes. In effect, it puts stuff into other people’s photos that isn’t visible in the real world, but can be seen in the photos afterwards…

In principle, the Fulgurator can be used anywhere where there is another camera nearby that is being used with a flash.

It operates via a kind of reactive flash projection that enables an image to be projected on an object exactly at the moment when someone else is photographing it.

It operates via a kind of reactive flash projection that enables an image to be projected on an object at exactly the moment when someone else is photographing it.

• @Jimmykitty Plus, also, life is one disappointment after another ’til you just wish Flanders was dead… #
• You get a real weird sense of the world, when you go back over 12 hours of Tweets. Breakdowns, build-ups, meltdowns & party plans… #
• … but back to normal when I get back. Like Schrodinger’s dang roaches, all hectic n’ shit, as long as you don’t look straight at ‘em. #
• Me, sitting here, observing Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle as it relates to the clock, the kettle, & my inbox… #
• @steevbishop Cool beans! Enjoy it, youse twose. #
• Texting “film” to Orange, while on the loo. I’se multi-tasking, me! #
• @lexia Are Bluehost awesome? I put a call out to see if it was time to change hosts (renewal in about four days!). Had nothing back yet. #
• Girl One just wrote: “I have instead written bullet holes”. I think she meant “points”. But I prefer the adorable mistakamake… #
• Also, I am Mr Meanypoos, apparently. #
• Sister One is doing the Race For Life tonight, for Cancer Research. You can, if you choose, sponsor her at here: http://tinyurl.com/5re8br #
• Personally, I think there is too much cancer, and we certainly don’t need anybody finding new ways to get it, but you know those scientists! #
• Why do people on Facebook keep thinking I’m married? That’s two in the last week. Have I put something dumb in my profile without realising? #
• Eep! I can’t find my Wordle Elephants!! #
• Meeting Girl One to catch 5.30 screening of Hulk. HULK SMASH!! #
• Hulk SMASHED!! (I’m not the first person to go with that, right?) #

“Human culture keeps on changing—it’s constantly being modified. There’s no such thing as the “original culture”—we are always in a state of flux. So it depends on how you look at it. But no matter how you dress or what kind of song you sing, as long as you can relate with other people, I think it’s okay.”

Tokyo Mango interviews Tendzin Choegyal, youngest brother of the Dalai Lama. He is an incredibly interesting and thoughtful man.

“… Any trend that is based on the mistaken view that freedom under democracy is a license to do anything is dangerous… Say somebody is very angry, and he just can’t listen to reason. That person’s reason for not restraining himself is, I’m free. I can to whatever I want.”

Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Is ‘Totally Badass’

Too many totally awesome moments in this to count.

Study: Most Children Strongly Opposed To Children’s Healthcare