tokyokevin: Kevin Ryan in Tokyo

Kevin putting it out there

  • Save yourself from shit

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    I really enjoy large non-fiction books about a single simple subjects. Salt, for example. Or networks. Or candy. Now one has come out about sewage. Rose George is an investigative journalist. I’ve got this one on order.

    The story of civilization has been the story of separating you from your waste. British investigative journalist Rose George’s stunning—and nauseating—new book opens by explaining that a single gram of feces can contain “ten million viruses, one million bacteria, one thousand parasite cysts, and one hundred worm eggs.” Accidentally ingesting this cocktail causes 80 percent of all the sickness on earth.

  • Wassup?

    You remember the old Wassup commercials by Annheiser-Busch for Budweiser beer, right?

    Now you can see an updated version for our times, with a nice twist at the end.

  • Priorities

    This is a short clip about beer, and friends, and women. Guess which one gets the highest priority?

  • Social Media Classroom

    In a recent report by Sarah Perez over at ReadWriteWeb we discover Howard Rheingold has been busy making the Social Media Classroom.  This may have a significant effect on Moodle, another open-source project for a CMS (Classroom Management System). Although they are different, with SMC focusing on communication, and Moodle focusing on Management, I foresee that both will rapidly start looking more and more like each other.

  • Oxford English Corpus

    The OEC is a truly monumental (2 billion words, each tagged by country, and more) digital expansion of the incredible Oxford English Dictionary. Note the OED is less than 100 years old. Now with this new and constantly updated “root” source of information you can drill down and get information about words in myriad ways. Sublime.