Can i get these myvu glasses on a prescription? The perfect cure for meeting boredom.

The screengrab says it all really…..

Smashing Magazine, best known for their n of the best techniques collections eg 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without. This year, they have been branching out with n of the best album covers and 29 Brilliant Music Videos. I can’t get over the fact that not a single Madonna vid has made the list.

By total coincidence, the David Letterman interview with Madonna from 1994 came up on the videos being watched list on the YouTube home page. ….Makes me wanna go track down all Madonna controvercial moments and watch em again. How many times can M say the F word? …and to put it into perspective this is M from 14 years ago!!!!

Mahara has developed in leaps and bounds as a viable ePortfolio alternative since I last took a look about a year ago. I particularly like the ability to create Views, that bundle artefacts together with common access control.

Feel sceptical about the ‘learning’ value of Second Life, then check out these examples of houses/buildings modeled for sustainable design.

I’ll be heading to Adelaide to present at BbWorld AsiaPac ’08. The presentation is entitled “Visualising Social Network Formation”, and covers work done in collaboration with Dr Shane Dawson on community formation. The presentation will feature a client-side Greasemonkey script for Firefox that facilitates the social network analysis of discussion forum data in Blackboard and Vista (WebCT). I’ll post more on the tool in the coming weeks…

Just watched Lady Gaga’s performance on So You Think You Can Dance (US version). She really was not kidding when she said she would be making new gadgets (electronic gadgets to be exact) and lots of em. I totally loved the “video display sunnies” at the start. The performance was awesome - she has a great stage presence and total confidence. Most importantly, she sang live and her voice was awesome. Are there realy any limits to her talent? She can do more than Just Dance - sing, write songs (while thinking about what she will wear when performing the song), make electronic gadgets and design clothes. Thanks to the wonders of YouTube, you can see the performance just a few hours after the show aired. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJZD2swCidc Just Dance!!!

Del.icio.us has had a yummy interface redesign. I don’t visit the del.icio.us site, mostly just use the Firefox plugin, but I certainly think they came up with an awesome new design.

I can’t help but wonder (in a nightmarish way) about what is involved in 1 - porting over content and 2 - updating building blocks to Blackboard NG…. I so want to return to ed tech development, but am so scared of having to migrate content/activities and fix links again. Most uni’s in South East QLD use Blackboard which makes it hard to find ed tech jobs where I will be safe. Sob!