April 2010
17 posts
For the love of education
John: My main goal in my computer class has been to get my students to the point where they can sit down in front of a new program, new website, whatever, something that'
s new to them, and figure it out quickly
So TODAY
They were signing up for facebook accounts
and within like 20 minutes, were using it to try and pick up chicks.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
“Petraeus’s call sign in Iraq was “Lion Six.” There was still a trace of Squad...”
– [The Professor of War longform.org
General David Petraeus: Inbox Zero warrior.
(via Instapaper)
“If you sit in the library after school, text-messaging to people across the room...”
– I.H.T. Op-Ed Contributor - 2txt? Or Nt2txt? - NYTimes.com
Garrison Keillor, again weighing in on The Kids These Days, and how his crucial insights will save a generation. To quote The Who, a band I’m sure Keillor views with similar disdain, the kids are alright. Keillor, on the other hand,...
THINK BEFORE YOU COSPLAY →
Steampunk: Leading source of global warming?
Frasier is a Tea Partier? →
seoulbrother:
jimray:
Kelsey Grammer, you know him better as the latte sipping Frasier Crane, is starting a right-wing TV network.
Great. This can be the tossed salad to my scrambled eggs.
I think I’ll call it the Ben Stein effect. There’s always got to be some celebrity that I once had a distant but positive impression of that turns out to be a wingnut. (see also: Chuck...
CamelCamelCamel →
For that thing on Amazon that makes you say “$x for one of those? I’ll wait until it’s $y (where y=x*0.6). I don’t need it that bad!”
Saluting the IRS →
Damn right. I couldn’t believe how little airtime that attack on that IRS building got. If that was a Army facility or even Medicare office people would still be freaking out.
(via Instapaper)
Mystery solved: Why time stands still at 9:42 on... →
This is how incredibly, awesomely anal Apple is. They pay attention to EVERYTHING.
Seasteading: the great escape – Prospect Magazine... →
Some libertarians want to try “seasteading” — building free market societies in international waters. But we already know how this ends!
“Is it easier to believe that nature has gone out of her course or that a man...”
– Thomas Paine (1737-1809), establishing a fairly solid principle for judging the validity of supernatural phenomena. And boom goes the skeptical dynamite. (via jasonpermenter)