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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…