The year-in-review parade continues with Quora.  I guess everyone can see that I am much more of a browser than an answer provider on quora, but I guess I answer limited times but put thought into it... Thank you, Apostolos Thanks for being a part of Quora in 2017! Let's look at some of the ways you helped share and grow the world's knowledge this past year. Your 2017

Very odd to be getting an alumni relations birthday wish, appreciated nevertheless oh great algorithm!

Awwww Nintendo!  Your algorithms remembered my birthday!  Even though no human was directly involved I am touched ;-).  On another note, feels odd to be sharing a birthrate with a current Pope (fact courtesy of Google).

Invasion of the MOOCs: The Promise and Perils of Massive Open Online Courses by Steven D. Krause My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was an interesting collection of essays by people (who I think) met through an xMOOC (EDCMOOC) and decided to put their experiences together. It was interesting to take a slice of MOOC history and read some initial reactions to this phenomenon. Although, calling

Bring these back ;-) The other day I was thinking back to the 1990s and early 2000s when we had two or three star trek series going on at the same time.  Man, that was entertaining ;-).  The recent DC universe (Arrow, Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow) shows on the CW have made me ponder about what a Star Trek equivalent would be like (call it the TCTU - Trek Cinema and TV Universe

I guess the subtext here is something sexual in nature? The punchline sort of works because it it leaves a lot to the imagination, but it's not all that funny :-/ (original archive here)

Seems like today's news comes in the form of the demise of Storify - a tool that I don't often use, but many in my academic circle tend to love.  The tool allows you to aggregate content from other social media sites, like facebook, twitter, instagram, the web (and more) and put those in collections called...Stories!  I've used it a few times for conferences, but the last time I really

A little humor found this past weekend on Kotaku's Sunday Comics (especially for those Castlevania fans) :-)

One of my favorite seasonal STO events is here: Q's winter wonderland - where mischievous Q transports you to a...ermmm...winter wonderland...complete with winter events, winter clothing, and a new limited edition ship that you can claim. The Kramp'Ihr This year's addition to the game is the Kramp'Ihr - melding human winter-time monsters like the Krampus with Klingon undead (the Fekh'Ihr). 

An interesting bit of American history from College Humor (via Alec Couros)