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Headed to Athens

Your fearless (or reckless, or hapless, or…) narrator is off this morning to eventually set foot in sunny, sweltering Athens, Georgia, where he’ll attend the annual Computers & Writing Conference this weekend.

I’ll be on a couple of panels there: one to discuss how open source products have aided/abetted various publishing initiatives on our campus, and the other to discuss the feasibility of organizing a group of like-minded individuals to develop productive dialog and volunteer services in conjunction with the open source community.

Also, while there: bowling, The Grit, Peppinos, The Lunch Paper, and catching up with old friends…

Internets Fun Twin-Pack!

A couple more bits of random delicacies for you geekaholics out there:

• From TUAW: Dennis Liu made this charming music video for The Bird and the Bee’s song “Again and Again” using the OS X desktop as the staging environment (give it a watch to get what I mean).
• Kyle “King of the Awesome” Downes made a freaking NES  controller/coffee table…that works!