SIGCSE video entry

I've created a video (as you may know already), and have entered it in the Video competition for SIGCSE 2010. Here it is: Relational Graphs: What are they?. Check it out.

It was designed originally as a motivator for some graph theory lessons I will be doing in a couple of Grade Six Math classes soon. Hopefully it will get accepted at SIGCSE too!

URL doesn't rhyme with girl

My good friend, who will remain unnamed, has reminded me how silly it sounds when people pronounce URL so that it rhymes with girl.

URL, stands for Uniform Resource Locator. It is an acronym, and is pronounced: YOU ARE ELL. ;)

Carl Sagan is brilliant

I found this wicked quote:

We have a society which is built on science and technology and which uses science in every one of the interstices of national life, and in which the public, the executive, the legislative and the judiciary have very little understanding of what science is about.

--Carl Sagan

As intricate and subtle as we...

Very cool video:

Beautiful Science

Help Desk

This just seems appropriate, as I've been thinking a lot about how to design interfaces so that they are intuitive to use...

Help Desk

LOL

Video take 2

I'm working on this video as in introductory "movie" for graph theory lesson for grade sixes. Here is my latest version: