Stop The Meter On Your Internet Use
By the Branta Webcrawler • Jan 30th, 2011 • Category: Brave New World, Editorial Notes, From the Interweb, Happenings, News Briefs, Rants
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Is “Huck Finn” Without the N-Word Still “Huck Finn”?
By the Branta Webcrawler • Jan 5th, 2011 • Category: Brave New World, Editor's Picks, From the InterwebToni Morrison wrote about the n-word in her introduction to the 1996 Oxford edition of Huck Finn. She describes how, as a young reader, she found the novel disturbing and alarming. Then she read it again in the ’80s, provoked by efforts to remove the novel from libraries and public school reading lists.
Nina Shen Rastogi/Slate.com
Final voting round for Yoxi’s “Reinvent Fast Food” challenge
By the Branta Webcrawler • Dec 14th, 2010 • Category: Brave New World, From the Interweb, HappeningsWe love to eat our fast food. It’s the taste. The low price. The ability to eat on the go. And the ease of not having to cook dinner for the family after a long workday. Yet, we have to know that fast food is bad for us …. It’s time we find a better and tastier way.
via Yoxi.tv
Top of the Tweets
By the Branta Webcrawler • Dec 14th, 2010 • Category: Brave New World, Editor's Picks, From the InterwebDid you know there were approximately 25 billion tweets sent forth in 2010? I know!!! Here are the top ten Twitter trends from this year. See how many you can guess before you click through.
Make—The Art of Good Conversation
By the Branta Webcrawler • Dec 6th, 2010 • Category: Brave New World, Editor's Picks, From the InterwebConversation. In particular, a live chat with an author who wrote and illustrated a memoir about her mother’s Alzheimer’s. It’s since been a finalist for the Writers’ Trust Award and chosen as a Globe 100 for 2010. I do these chats once or twice a month. This one was quite special.
Book Madam/Book Madam & Associates
Using poetry to teach computers better language skills
By the Branta Webcrawler • Nov 21st, 2010 • Category: Brave New World, Editor's Picks, From the Interweb, PoetryA first step to understanding this complexity is to gain better knowledge of how we decide where to put emphasis. This is where poetry comes into play. Wagner has looked at prosody, which means the rhythm, stress and intonation of speech.
Sify News
Proposed Richler honour draws opposition
By the Branta Webcrawler • Nov 8th, 2010 • Category: Brave New World, Editor's Picks, From the InterwebMordecai Richler may be an icon of Canadian literature, but a fledgling campaign calling for Montreal to rename a public space after the author is drawing some opposition. Mario Beaulieu, president of Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste, one of Quebec’s largest nationalist organizations, said he opposes such an honour because Richler was a divisive figure who was “anti-Quebec.”
CBC News
Who’s on first?
By Eric Hill • Oct 21st, 2010 • Category: Brave New World, Feature Post, Short Fiction, Travel“Do you think your mother will want to save his glasses or his false teeth? They take those out prior to cremation.” I have to be at work, behind a counter, in about an hour and a half. I will have to answer this question: “How’s it going today?” This will happen many times.
Authors@Google: Albert László Barabási
By the Branta Webcrawler • Oct 1st, 2010 • Category: Brave New World, From the Interweb, On Writing, VideoHow to Say a Few Words in 10 Languages That Will Soon Be Extinct
By the Branta Webcrawler • Sep 29th, 2010 • Category: Branta Recommends, Brave New World, From the Interweb, In BriefThe Unesco Interactive Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger maps 232 extinct and 2,465 endangered languages. Half of the world’s 6500 to 7000 languages are expected to disappear this century.
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