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    deus caritas est: error?

    As you may know, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, released his first Encyclical, Deus Caritas Est, that is, God Is Love. I haven’t read all of it so I’m…

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    thursday is a dull day

    For STS 321, we were asked to record a “media log” of how we interact with media over a course of a day. Here are my results: Thursday is not…

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    Bad Information Design

    I have always had problems with Blackboard, the online course content system that UT uses. It contains a great amount of information and can be very useful, it is organized…

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    student office building

    I’ve had this idea for some time now and I think it is ready for a public forum. Being a full-time college student is a full-time job. We’re in the…

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    quick post: what are blogs?

    In STS 321, we were asked “What are blogs?” Below are the notes I scratched into Notepad before we started discussing it. Blogs are a forum for individuals to share…

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    sts 321 – another class, another blog

    I’m now enrolled in STS 321: Intro to Science, Technology and Society. This is the fourth STS class I’ve taken [311, 331 (Wireless Revolutions) and 331 (Multimedia Writing-W)] and so…

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    texas isn’t ranked?

    I’m in my social stats class going over some very basic terms: nominal and ordinal variables. Ordinal variables are one that are ordered, or could be ranked. For example, when…

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    let the donors choose

    I ran into this site today, Donors Choose, a site that connects teachers who need funding with donors. Teachers can post project proposal and indicate the funding level they need…

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    this is war: a cingular story

    Alright. So I thought the problem I was having with my phone was fixed. This weekend, I find out that Vanessa and Stephanie both had this happen to them while…

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    proclamation of the date of easter

    As found in the Sacramentary Supplement, this is the tradtional announcement of the date of Easter to be announced on Epiphany. It comes from a time before calendars but is…