Friday, July 21, 2006

Wheel Well Kitten


Today in Madison, SD, a hitchhiking kitten was extracted from pickup truck's wheel well. Whew!

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Podcasting Tutorial

Podcasting tutorial by Franklin McMahon who produces his own podcasts called Creativecow.net and Media Artist Secrets.

Here are the segments of the tutorial (Flash screencast) which cover techniques for recording, tagging, syndicating, and publicizing a podcast.

Monday, July 17, 2006

A Conversation with Mark Peters

This morning I had a chance to chat with my grad school friend, Mark Peters. Mark is an educator and freelance writer who lives in Chicago. He spoke with me, primarily, about "Wordlustitude", his weblog about words.


Link to audio (20mb mp3)

Fascinated by new words, Mark shared a search technique he uses to discover what he calls "stunt" or "nonce" words (ephemeral words used to stun, amuse, and/or impress). He explained how he uses Google to search for instances of noncy prefixes and suffixes. What fun! Here are two examples to try:

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Petrified Knothole



Petrified knothole, Petrified Wood Park, Lemmon SD.

Close Encounter with Prehistory



Staring down a dinosaur in Lemmon, SD.

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