This is shaping up to be a solid, rather lengthy rant about the nature of instructional technology, though I will endeavor to avoid foaming at the mouth. Feel free to go elsewhere.

I’ve been percolating, so to speak, this particular rant for a long time. You can see my early eruptions in Thomas Wortham’s 1998 [...]

Apple Mailing Lists RSS

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This is just so cool; thanks to Chuq and Apple for making Apple’s mailing lists’ posts RSS friendly. There’s a lot of good information in these lists, and RSS is an efficient way to see what the current topics are. The subscribe page is . Now all you need is NetNews Wire, or one of [...]

Font Geek

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Just a quick post about Ben Levisay’s Font Geek site. He’s offering lots of good information about fonts and Mac OS X, ranging from information about how fonts are organized and used in OS X to font interactions with specific applications, tips, and work arounds for problems.

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QuickSilver

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At WWDC a couple of people mentioned the beta of a really interesting program they’d come to depend on, called Quicksilver. It’s a little utility that runs in the background but that comes to the front with a keyboard command. You type the first few letters—just two or three—of the file or application you want [...]

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