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Kevin Kline on Contributing

Quote 2005 July 26 William Doane

Ambition without contribution is meaningless.

— Kevin Kline as headmaster William Hundert in The Emperor’s Club

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Applications

  • RQDA
  • TAMS Analyzer for Macintosh OS X

> Development

  • Github App for Mac
  • RStudio
  • Sublime Text
  • Visual Studio Code

> Utilities

  • 1Password
  • Alfred for OS X
  • DaisyDisk
  • Moom Window Manager
  • PasteBot
  • Skitch v1.0.12
  • SuperDuper OS X backup software
  • TotalFinder

> Web Development

  • EXIF Viewer
  • SelectorGadget

> Writing

  • Mendeley Citation Manager
  • Scapple
  • Scrivener
  • Zotero Citation Manager

Blogs

  • Amy J. Ko
  • And Yet It Moves (Ben Chun)
  • Bob Pruzek
  • Brian Danielak
  • Computer Science Teacher (Alfred Thompson)
  • Computing Education (Mark Guzdial)
  • CSTA Blogs
  • dy/dan (Dan Meyer)
  • Garth’s CS Education Blog (Garth Flint)
  • Generative Art in R ~ Danielle Navarro
  • Hélène Martin’s
  • Ideas for Teaching Computer Technology to Kids
  • Knowing and Doing (Eugene Wallingford)
  • R Weekly
  • R-Bloggers
  • Sir Ken Robinson
  • Teaching CS in Dallas (Kathleen Weaver)

Computer Science

  • 97 Things Every…
  • Algorithm Design Manual
  • Algorithms
  • Annotated Turing
  • Art of Computer Programming
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • AWK Programming Language
  • Beautiful Code
  • C Programming Language
  • Clean Code
  • Code 2.0
  • Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
  • Compilers
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach
  • Humane Interface
  • Introduction to Algorithms
  • Introduction to Information Theory
  • Literate Programing
  • Master Algorithm
  • Mathematical Theory of Communication
  • New Turing Omnibus
  • On Computable Numbers
  • Pattern on the Stone
  • Pragmatic Programmer
  • Programming Pearls
  • Programming the Universe
  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP)
  • The Information

Computing Education

  • Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research
  • Computational Thinking
  • Computational Thinking, 10 Years Later
  • Computer Science Education
  • Computer Science Education in the 21st Century
  • Computer Science in K-12: An A-to-Z Handbook on Teaching Programming
  • Computer Science Principles
  • CS Teaching Tips
  • Guide to Teaching Computer Science
  • Introduction to the History of Computing
  • Society of Mind
  • Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing
  • Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing

Data Science

  • Data Organization in Spreadsheets by Broman and Woo
  • ggplot2
  • Layered Grammar of Graphics by Hadley Wickham
  • naming things (is hard) by Jenny Bryan
  • R For Data Science (R4DS)
  • Tidy Data by Hadley Wickham

Education

  • Colleges that Change Lives
  • How People Learn II
  • Knowing the Learner
  • Pedagogy of the Oppressed
  • The Courage to Teach
  • Understanding By Design
  • What Every Data Scientist Should Know About Education
  • What the Best College Teachers Do

Journals

  • Cognition & Instruction
  • Computer Science Education
  • Educational Evaluation & Policy Analysis
  • Educational Technology Research & Development
  • Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
  • Journal of Educational Computing Research
  • Transactions on Computing Education

Movies

  • Movies may appear in multiple categories below

> Classics

  • 12 Angry Men
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Airplane!
  • All My Sons
  • All the President’s Men
  • Apollo 13
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
  • Awakenings
  • Big Chill
  • Bishop’s Wife
  • Blade Runner
  • Casablanca
  • Children of Men
  • Christmas Story
  • Clockwork Orange
  • Clue
  • Contact
  • D.O.A. (1950)
  • Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
  • Dead Poets Society
  • Death of a Salesman
  • Double Indemnity (1944)
  • Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Fail-Safe
  • Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
  • Forrest Gump
  • Galaxy Quest
  • Good Morning, Vietnam
  • Good Will Hunting
  • Great Dictator
  • Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
  • His Girl Friday
  • In the Heat of the Night
  • Inherit the Wind
  • It’s a Wonderful Life
  • Lean on Me
  • Longest Day
  • Manchurian Candidate
  • Metropolis
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • Network
  • Philadelphia
  • Planet of the Apes
  • Roots (1977)
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Schindlers List
  • Seven Days in May
  • Shawshank Redemption
  • Silent Running
  • Silkwood
  • Soylent Green
  • Stand and Deliver
  • Stand by Me
  • Steel Magnolias
  • The Prisoner (1967; TV series)
  • The Producers (1968)
  • Thin Man (series)
  • Tora! Tora! Tora!
  • WarGames

> Heart/Hope

  • A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
  • A Man Called Otto
  • An Irish Goodbye
  • August Rush
  • Awakenings
  • Beautiful Boy
  • Beautiful Thing
  • Better Nate Than Ever
  • Big Chill
  • Big Hero 6
  • Broken Hearts Club
  • Chef
  • Children of Men
  • Cloud Atlas
  • Coda
  • Come From Away
  • Dave
  • Dead Poets Society
  • Driving Miss Daisy
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
  • Flight of the Phoenix
  • Forrest Gump
  • Good Will Hunting
  • Green Mile
  • Heartstopper
  • Jeffrey
  • King’s Speech
  • L.A. Story
  • Lean on Me
  • Living
  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
  • Moscow on the Hudson
  • Mr. Holland’s Opus
  • On Golden Pond
  • Pay It Forward
  • Pride
  • Shawshank Redemption
  • Stand and Deliver
  • Stand by Me
  • Steel Magnolias
  • Sully
  • Supernova
  • Ted Lasso
  • The Farewell
  • The Terminal
  • The Way
  • Trick

> History

  • 1917
  • Best of Enemies
  • Bridge of Spies
  • Cry Freedom
  • Death of Stalin
  • Good Morning, Vietnam
  • good night, and good luck
  • Hidden Figures
  • Hotel Rwanda
  • Judgment at Nuremburg
  • King’s Speech
  • Labyrinth of Lies
  • Lavender Scare
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • Longest Day
  • Midway
  • Patton
  • Rabbit-proof Fence
  • Roots (1977)
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Schindlers List
  • The Big Short
  • The Crossing
  • The Post
  • The Report
  • Tora! Tora! Tora!
  • Woman King

> Holiday

  • Bishop’s Wife
  • Christmas Story
  • It’s a Wonderful Life

> Humor

  • A Mighty Wind
  • Airplane!
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
  • Charade
  • Christmas Story
  • Clue
  • Death of Stalin
  • Fargo
  • Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
  • First Monday in October
  • Good Morning, Vietnam
  • Great Dictator
  • His Girl Friday
  • Hopscotch
  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
  • Moms Mabley
  • The Producers (1968)

> Irish

  • An Cailín Ciúin
  • An Irish Goodbye
  • Banshees of Inisherin
  • Doineann

> Journeys

  • A Man Called Otto
  • Awakenings
  • Copenhagen
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once
  • Jodorowsky’s Dune
  • Koyaanisqatsi
  • Living
  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
  • Pink Floyd – The Wall
  • The Whale (2022)

> Justice/Injustice

  • 12 Angry Men
  • Bent
  • Black Earth Rising (Series)
  • Bridge of Spies
  • Brubaker
  • Casablanca
  • Celluloid Closet
  • China Syndrome
  • Conspiracy
  • Cry Freedom
  • D.O.A. (1950)
  • Double Indemnity (1944)
  • Doubt
  • First Monday in October
  • Fried Green Tomatoes
  • Gattaca
  • Gentleman’s Agreement
  • Good Morning, Vietnam
  • good night, and good luck
  • Green Mile
  • Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
  • Has the American Dream Been Achieved at the Expense of the American Negro?
  • Hidden Figures
  • Hotel Rwanda
  • In the Bedroom
  • In the Heat of the Night
  • Inherit the Wind
  • Jojo Rabbit
  • Judgment at Nuremburg
  • Just Mercy
  • Network
  • Outland
  • Philadelphia
  • Rabbit-proof Fence
  • Rollerball (1975)
  • Roots (1977)
  • Shawshank Redemption
  • Silkwood
  • Spotlight
  • Stand and Deliver
  • Taps
  • The Big Short
  • The Report
  • V for Vendetta
  • Woman King
  • Women Talking

> LGBTQA+

  • And the Band Played On
  • Beautiful Thing
  • Bent
  • Better Nate Than Ever
  • Billy Elliot
  • Boys in the Band (1970)
  • Boys in the Band (2020)
  • Broken Hearts Club
  • Call Me by Your Name
  • Celluloid Closet
  • Disclosure
  • Doubt
  • Heartstopper
  • Jeffrey
  • Lavender Scare
  • Longtime Companion
  • Love, Simon
  • Milk
  • Normal Heart
  • Philadelphia
  • Pride
  • Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
  • Rent
  • Supernova
  • The Nance
  • The Whale (2022)
  • Torch Song Trilogy
  • Trevor
  • Trick
  • Uncle Frank
  • Wonder Boys

> Military

  • 1917
  • Bedford Incident
  • By Dawn’s Early Light
  • Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Fail-Safe
  • Good Morning, Vietnam
  • Hunt for Red October
  • Ice Station Zebra
  • Longest Day
  • Midway
  • On The Beach
  • Patton
  • Run Silent, Run Deep
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Seven Days in May
  • Taps
  • The Crossing
  • Tora! Tora! Tora!

> Noir

  • 12 Angry Men
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
  • Casablanca
  • D.O.A. (1950)
  • Double Indemnity (1944)
  • Metropolis
  • Suspicion

> Politics/Power

  • All the President’s Men
  • American President
  • Best of Enemies
  • Black Earth Rising (Series)
  • Bridge of Spies
  • Dave
  • Death of Stalin
  • Fail-Safe
  • First Monday in October
  • good night, and good luck
  • Great Dictator
  • Has the American Dream Been Achieved at the Expense of the American Negro?
  • Hopscotch
  • Inherit the Wind
  • Judgment at Nuremburg
  • Labyrinth of Lies
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • Manchurian Candidate
  • Metropolis
  • Milk
  • Moscow on the Hudson
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • Network
  • Pride
  • Seven Days in May
  • Silkwood
  • Suddenly
  • The Post
  • The Prisoner (1967; TV series)
  • The Report
  • The Wave
  • Three Days of the Condor
  • V for Vendetta
  • Wag the Dog

> Race

  • 12 Angry Men
  • Black Earth Rising (Series)
  • Brubaker
  • Conspiracy
  • Cry Freedom
  • CSA: The Confederate States of America
  • Driving Miss Daisy
  • Fried Green Tomatoes
  • Gentleman’s Agreement
  • Get Out
  • Great Dictator
  • Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
  • Has the American Dream Been Achieved at the Expense of the American Negro?
  • Hidden Figures
  • Hotel Rwanda
  • In the Heat of the Night
  • Jojo Rabbit
  • Judgment at Nuremburg
  • Just Mercy
  • Labyrinth of Lies
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • Lean on Me
  • Moms Mabley
  • Planet of the Apes
  • Rabbit-proof Fence
  • Roots (1977)
  • Schindlers List
  • Stand and Deliver
  • Us
  • Woman King

> Science/Science Fiction

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Andromeda Strain
  • Annihilation
  • Apollo 13
  • Arrival
  • Blade Runner
  • Brazil
  • Children of Men
  • Clockwork Orange
  • Cloud Atlas
  • Code 46
  • Contact
  • Cosmos (original series)
  • Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once
  • Galaxy Quest
  • Gattaca
  • Intergalactic Nemesis
  • Jodorowsky’s Dune
  • Logan’s Run
  • Metropolis
  • Miracle Mile
  • Moon
  • Mr. Nobody
  • On The Beach
  • Outland
  • Planet of the Apes
  • Rollerball (1975)
  • Silent Running
  • Soylent Green
  • The Prisoner (1967; TV series)
  • Thing from Another World
  • Threads
  • WarGames

> Stage

  • 12 Angry Men
  • All My Sons
  • Bent
  • Billy Elliot
  • Boys in the Band (1970)
  • Boys in the Band (2020)
  • Come From Away
  • Copenhagen
  • Death of a Salesman
  • Doubt
  • Inherit the Wind
  • Intergalactic Nemesis
  • Normal Heart
  • Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
  • Rent
  • The Nance
  • The Producers (1968)
  • The Whale (2022)
  • Torch Song Trilogy

Music

  • > As A Spotify Playlist <
  • A Change is Gonna Come
  • Abraham, Martin, and John
  • Biko
  • Both Sides Now
  • Come From Away
  • Considering Matthew Shepard
  • Coward of the County
  • Do You Hear the People Sing
  • Eugene Lee Yang
  • Everything Possible
  • Family Snapshot
  • Glory
  • Lullaby (The Cure)
  • Mississippi Goddam
  • Mr. Wendal
  • Oh My Brother
  • On the Turning Away
  • On the Turning Away
  • One Day
  • One Last Time
  • Parce Mihi Domine
  • Redemption Song
  • Rise Up
  • Same Love
  • Sanvean—I Am Your Shadow
  • Shed a Little Light
  • Shine
  • Something Inside So Strong
  • Still I Rise
  • Strange Fruit
  • Talkin’ Bout a Revolution
  • The Fence (before)
  • These Are The Days of Our Lives
  • We Shall Overcome
  • When Life is Good Again
  • Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story
  • Yes We Can

Organizations

  • American Education Research Association (AERA)
  • American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST)
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Association for the Cooperative Advancement of Science & Education (ACASE)
  • Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA)
  • International Computing Education Research (ICER) Conference
  • International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
  • NY Open Statistical Programming Meetup
  • Shodor Education Foundation
  • Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)

Podcasts

  • Clear & Vivid with Alan Alda
  • Microsoft Research Podcast
  • Radiolab
  • West Wing Weekly

Products I Own, Use, and Enjoy

  • Art In The Age
  • Art of Shaving Sandlewood Shaving Cream
  • Bose QC25 headphones
  • Brother laser printer
  • Eagle Creek Pack-It Sac
  • Fujitsu ScanSnap
  • incase hardshell case for Macbook Air
  • Jambox by Jawbone
  • luminAID
  • Maglus stylus for touch screens
  • Miniot iPad cover
  • Pad & Quill Macbook Air Case
  • PlugBug MacBook/USB charger
  • Saddleback leather wallet
  • ScotteVest classic vest and performance t-shirt
  • Skagen wrist watch
  • Sony WH-1000XM
  • Things I’ve blogged about
  • Tivo

Reading

> Computing

  • Mastering Shiny
  • Pattern on the Stone
  • Text Mining with R

> Recreational

  • A Memory Called Empire
  • Alas Babylon
  • Anathem
  • Arkwright
  • Calculus of Friendship
  • Canticle for Leibowitz
  • Childhood’s End
  • Courage to Teach
  • Epic of Gilgamesh
  • Foundation
  • Future Library
  • Hitchhiker’s Guide
  • If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?
  • Last Lecture
  • Leaves of Grass
  • Mars Trilogy
  • Ministry for the Future
  • The Intuitionist
  • The Machine Stops
  • Time Enough for Love

> Statistics/Data Science

  • Data Science in Context
  • Handbook of Graphs and Networks in People Analytics
  • Handbook of Regression Modeling in People Analytics
  • Introduction to Causal Inference
  • Introduction to Modern Statistics
  • Tidy Modeling with R

Security

> Backup

  • RAID Level 1 NAS
  • SuperDuper OS X backup software
  • Time Machine (OSX)

> Cautionary Tales

  • Cyper Weapons Lab
  • Lessons of the Kobayashi Maru
  • Physical Penetration Testing

> Guides

  • EFF’s Surveillance Self-Defense
  • EPIC Guide to Practical Privacy Tools
  • Ultimate Online Privacy Guide

> Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

  • Activating 2FA on Consumer Services
  • Activating 2FA on Even More Services
  • SMS 2FA is Better than Nothing, but Broken
  • Titan Security Key
  • What is MFA?
  • Yubikey

> Password Management

  • 1Password
  • KeePass
  • LastPass

> Physical

  • Titan Security Key
  • USB Data Blockers—Charge safely
  • USB-A Data Blocker
  • USB-A to USB-C Data Blocker
  • USB-C to USB-A Data Blocker
  • Yubikey

> System Level

  • Do Not Disturb
  • FileVault 2
  • Lulu
  • NordVPN
  • PIA VPN
  • RansomWhere?

> Web Browsing

  • Brave
  • DuckDuckGo
  • Ghostery

> Xtr3m3 Paran0!a

  • GPG
  • Signal
  • Tails
  • Tor

Stories

  • 1984
  • A Separate Peace
  • Asimov’s Foundation (series)
  • Boy’s Own Story
  • Button, Button
  • Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Dune
  • Encyclopedia Brown (series)
  • Ender’s Game
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Fountains of Paradise
  • Gilgamesh Epic
  • Hardy Boys (series)
  • Heinlein’s Future History (series)
  • Hieroglyph
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  • Little Brother
  • Martian Chronicles
  • Microserfs
  • Nine Billion Names of God
  • Pastwatch
  • Rainbow Boys (series)
  • Speaker for the Dead
  • The Giving Tree
  • The Intuitionist
  • The Machine Stops
  • The Missing Piece
  • The Night Before Christmas
  • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
  • The Stand
  • Time Enough at Last (TV)

Thought Provoking

  • Academic Earth
  • ACM Turing Award Laureate Interviews
  • Advent of Code (AoC)
  • Beauty in Code
  • Computerphile on YouTube
  • FORA.tv
  • Foundation for Critical Thinking
  • Hadley Wickham’s Twitter Feed
  • Happiness Research Institute
  • Intelligence Squared
  • Oxford Union Society
  • Royal Institution
  • Talks @ Google
  • Talks by Bryan Cantrill
  • TED Talks
  • Tidy Tuesday
  • Yuhui Xie’s Blog

Uplift

  • Braving the Wilderness
  • Calculus of Friendship
  • Courage to Teach
  • Dare to Lead
  • I’m Proud of You
  • If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?
  • Last Lecture
  • What the Best College Teachers Do

Worthy Causes

  • 1 in 6
  • ACLU
  • Amnesty International
  • ASPCA
  • Handsome Dan Dog Rescue
  • HRC
  • luminAID
  • Matthew Shepard Foundation
  • Point Foundation
  • Social Coder
  • Southern Poverty Law Center
  • The Trevor Project
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