See the assignment that informed the creation of these remixes: Remix, Mashup, and Society.

November 11, 2008

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I am really enjoying the sharing of applications and sites on Twitter. A few have come across lately that I thought I would share here. A few weeks ago Matt tweeted about Picnik, a free, robust online photo editing application that integrates with photos on Facebook, Flickr, myspace, photobucket, and many other applications. I showed it [...]

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November 11, 2008

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An article in the November 10, 2008, edition of The New York Times by Carl Zimmer, “Now: The Rest of the Genome,” discusses the thoroughly fascinating (and exceedingly difficult) of mapping the human genome. The article includes this gorgeous graphic, “Mapping the Epigenome” (click image to enlarge): Upon first viewing the image I was struck by [...]

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November 9, 2008

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I have recently gotten into a Sunday morning habit of reading PostSecret and then the New York Times on my cell phone in bed while listening to NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday. Its a nice way to ease into a Sunday that is usually a mix of work and errands and football. Gets the mind working [...]

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