Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s a rainy and maybe even snowy Friday morning for my Varia.

• This is a cool review of the iPad, and this makes me feel just a bit guilt about owning one.
• ProfHacker always has clever, interesting, and useful stuff. Although I think their Open Thread Wednesday, should be Open Thread Thursday.
• The events in Greece this past week (really this past year) are really sad and stressful. I hope that the country finds ways a way out of its difficult time with a minimum of violence and in a way that is equitable for all of Greek society. (And I do realize that this statement is banal and a cop-out)
• While I write this, I’m listening to Australia v. India, and Australia is off to a good start. (Right now, Australia has launched three balls outside of the grounds, but Shane Watson just got out.)
• I’m tempted to try to figure out an excuse to use Prezi.
• I’m pretty happy with my new HTC Incredible, but Android will take some getting used to. I can’t quite figure out how to integrate Google Docs with Android yet. Any tips?
• I keep forgetting to post a link to this good, local blog: Philosophical Questions Every Day.
• A nice short post on Social Networks and Higher Ed with a local focus.
• More on the Logo and Nickname (and this will be endless). The good thing is that there will be more committees.
• We can now experiment with embedding tweets in blog posts.
• If you haven’t checked out our new series of blog posts on Teaching Thursday featuring the reflections of first year faculty here at UND, you should.
• This is reading and review day!

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