Dancing With The Nerds

January 23, 2008 – 8:06 pm

Richard Stallman’s Soulja Boy dance, MIT style (via).

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MIT Origami Competition

March 8, 2006 – 7:39 pm

Ryan Eby and MAKE magazine alerted me to MIT’s student origami exhibit, in which Jason Ku’s ringwraith won the Best Original Model prize, and Brian Chan’s beaver — the MIT mascot — got special attention from the MIT News Office.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, beaver, competition, mit, nazgul, origami, paper, ringwraith

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Institutional and Academic Repositories

December 20, 2005 – 10:14 am

MIT has DSpace, their solution to save, share, and search the collected work of their faculty and students (in use by 115 public sites). Now Royce just shared with me this presentation by Bill Hubbard, the SHERPA project manager at University of Nottingham.
What’s SHERPA? The name is an acronym for Securing a Hybrid Environment for [...]

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$100 Laptop Details

December 4, 2005 – 1:22 pm

I’ve been doing a lot of talking about the coming information age and how it depends on access technology that is as cheap and easy to use as our cell phones (and applications of it that are as appealing as people find their cell phones). But I’ve been slow to mention the MIT Media Lab’s [...]

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