http://lenz.unl.edu/wordpress literatura mundana Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:28:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Continuing this week's media blitz . . . The folks at the Center for History and New Media have, at their extreme peril, invited me to be an "irregular" on the Digital Campus podcast (think of a shirt that is discounted because it's missing a button). This week, I joined ... http://lenz.unl.edu/wordpress/?p=130 I was very pleased to be invited, a month or so ago, to be a contributor to the Critical Code Studies blog (maintained by Mark C. Marino at USC). In fact, I was so pleased that I actually wrote something, which, although it probably diminishes the overall quality of ... http://lenz.unl.edu/wordpress/?p=128 I am very pleased to be attending the Workshop on Application Programming Interfaces for the Digital Humanities sponsored by SSHRC and hosted by the amazing Bill Turkel in his role as a member of NiCHE. Here are a few things I'm thinking about going into Day 2: In talking about APIs, we're ... http://lenz.unl.edu/wordpress/?p=125 The blog stats are simply astounding. Tens -- nay, teens -- of people finding their way to my blog. Do they seek enlightenment through cartoonish dialogues? Solemn meditations on cooking? Pronouncements on programming languages and aesthetics? No, silly, they want the syllabus! The course enrollment is bursting at ... http://lenz.unl.edu/wordpress/?p=119 Back in 2003, at the Digital Humanities conference in Athens, Georgia, Geoffrey Rockwell and I threw all caution to the wind and performed a live Brechto-Socratic dialogue on the relationship between programming and writing. People still ask us about it, but we've never been sure exactly what to do ... http://lenz.unl.edu/wordpress/?p=104 Today, I'm blogging on a different site as part of the Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities. There's an RSS feed, if you'd like to drink from the fire hose. I'm already doing it wrong, of course -- my first post is way too long, and it won't ... http://lenz.unl.edu/wordpress/?p=100 In my digital humanities classes, I always try to combine the technical with the philosophical (which, I believe, is one of the things that characterizes DH as a discipline). So, we'll often study control structures on Monday and Wednesday, and then spend Friday talking about new media theory and ... http://lenz.unl.edu/wordpress/?p=94 This past February, the College of Education and Human Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln extended an invitation to William Ayers (Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago) to speak at its annual student research conference -- an event which, this year, corresponds with the 100th ... http://lenz.unl.edu/wordpress/?p=82 Hack-a-day is reporting that CERN has released the manual for the Large Hadron Collider. Just in time, really, because I've been thinking of buying one of these. Of course, the manual contains the usual stuff: Make sure the Large Hadron Collider is plugged in. Note that investigation of supersymmetric particles, strangelets, and ... http://lenz.unl.edu/wordpress/?p=73 I had no idea that today was System Administrator Appreciation Day -- that is, until I got a very sweet note from a colleague thanking me for maintaining the dev server at CDRH. Sysadmins are sometimes thought of as occupying one of the lower rungs of the technical ladder (and most ... http://lenz.unl.edu/wordpress/?p=67