Here’s a list of videos show what they call Augmented Reality. The first film, I believe, is student film illustrating the consequences of augmented reality. “Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it,” as noted on the Vimeo host page. Other videos show darn cool phone apps for navigation and identification. This is wild. (via Jeff Jarvis)
(Photo by The Lightworks/Flickr)
And now for something completely different: a Western music video.
I’ve been tweeting on a BwB profile here, saying things like this:
Blogger and scholar Stuart Buck has a book on American education coming out this month. Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation
Rod Dreher of BeliefNet has a three part interview with Stuart starting here, continuing here, and concluding here (these links will help when the navigation on BeliefNet is challenging). I will review Acting White for BwB later this month.
Responding to a new Gallup poll, 45% said moral values in the U.S. are poor. Democrats are a little more optimistic than Republicans or independents. The results are the most negative Gallup has gotten for this question in several years.
“Reformed Theology? There’s an App for That.”
This is only slightly less awesome than the potato warmer app I designed.
I am not familiar with this term: Morton’s Fork
“A situation involving choice between two equally undesirable outcomes
“ETYMOLOGY: After John Morton (c. 1420-1500), archbishop of Canterbury, who was tax collector for the English King Henry VII. To him is attributed Morton’s fork, a neat argument for collecting taxes from everyone: those living in luxury obviously had money to spare and those living frugally must have accumulated savings to be able to pay.” (via Wordsmith.org)
Chris Pash reports the phrase at the end of the day “is the most popular cliche in journalism globally. It is all-pervasive.” Headline writers also love “Man Bites Dog” in some fashion. For example:
In the spirit of this award, I proudly claim the honor of Best Blog by a Heretic as voted on my the reader of The Crescat blog. That’s “heretic” as defined by Roman Catholics (some of them anyway). Get the run down here. As Luther might have said on an occasion like this, “This fear or horror is sufficient in itself [when reading this blog] to constitute the pain of purgatory, since it approaches very closely to the horror of despair.”
Do we aim to please? We sure do. Thank you to everyone for your wonderful outpouring of support for the unsung heroes write this blog. At the end of the day, it’s all about you.
Perhaps it wouldn’t be a bad idea to press candidates for high U.S. courts on their opinions of most of the amendments and clauses in the Constitution. Elena Kagan favors censorship, no doubt of only those ideas she disapproves. What other unconstitutional ideas does she support?