Alice: Through the Monitor (or Creating new worlds for Novices)
Through watching the Randy Pausch lecture (mentioned in my previous post) I discovered a great free tool for learning how to program, called Alice. What’s different about Alice is that it lets students...
View ArticleReview: Wall-E
As may be appropriate for a movie with few spoken lines, this review should be pretty short. Amazing technical achievement. The visuals here are phenomenal. There were times that I forgot I was...
View ArticleTuesday TubeWatch: Lego Izzard – Cake or Death?
This is a great idea. Eddie Izzard’s Dressed to Kill stand-up routine is hilarious (though profanity laced). Matching the bits with Lego stop-motion animation turns out to be really funny and...
View ArticleTuesday TubeWatch Two-fer! Doctor Who meets Bugs Bunny!
Okay, look, here’s the thing: Doctor Who travelling to some alternate reality where he meets Bugs Bunny would be incredibly cool in a very strange, and possibly acid-induced way. It’s not happening...
View ArticleG-Force ROCKS!
NO! I am not talking about the insipid, rodent-filled name-stealer. Why?! Why did they do it?! Similar to Lee’s story in the blog entry that I’m blatantly ripping off, even to the point of taking his...
View ArticleReview: Brave
Pixar has an amazing track record with its movies. The quality of animation is superb and their attention to story is a cut (or two) above most studios. Their worst “failures” are still better than...
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