Duel of Ages :: View topic - Duel of Ages reaches a landmark

Duel of Ages :: View topic - Duel of Ages reaches a landmark: "Personally, Duel of Ages has been a very satisfying experience. This month Venatic reached the 30,000 mark in total games sold. Inventory is now less than 200 games per set. Due to manufacturing circumstances, a second run is not possible without starting the process over, with all of its costs, and under the current economy that is not feasible."

Make Your Own Warm Winter Mitts

Make Your Own Warm Winter Mitts

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world | Video on TED.com

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world | Video on TED.com

Sugata Mitra | Profile on TED.com

Sugata Mitra | Profile on TED.com

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity | Video on TED.com

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity | Video on TED.com

State's Secrets | MetaFilter

State's Secrets | MetaFilter: "We may have all secretly suspected at one time or another that Putin and Berlusconi are really just trumped up mobsters, but to find that such suspicions are also shared by those in a much better position to know puts the situation in a different light for me.

Also, the possibility that the Sauds are still actively supporting Al Qaeda and at the same time encouraging the US to initiate a military conflict with Iran--well, it makes for an interesting picture of the situation."

State's Secrets | MetaFilter

State's Secrets | MetaFilter: "For the people with blowback fears:

If you believe that our first- and second-world peers haven't already read all this information and more (which has been available to over 3 million servicemembers for several years now) via their intelligence networks, I have a bridge to sell you.
posted by mullingitover at 12:55 PM on November 28 [44 favorites -] Favorite added! [!]"

State's Secrets | MetaFilter

State's Secrets | MetaFilter: "These docs include names of people such as a Chinese contact who informed American Embassy personnel that the Chinese government was hacking into Google in China. The result of that will be a bullet in the back of the head.

When Amnesty complained, Assange twittered that they should donate employee time and resources (which are for advancing human rights) to redacting the documents--even though he was the one releasing them."

Mark 4

Mark 4: "22 For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad."

Matthew J. Miller's HOWTOs: Backing Up Gmail with Thunderbird Using IMAP

Matthew J. Miller's HOWTOs: Backing Up Gmail with Thunderbird Using IMAP: "HOWTO
Follow these instructions to configure Thunderbird for Gmail IMAP. Use these recommended settings.
Familiarize yourself with how Thunderbird actions will synchonize with Gmail. One thing in particular to note:
IMAP translates labels with a forward slash (/) into a folder hierarchy like you see in your computer's file system. If you have a label such as 'Family/Friends,' you may want to reconsider your naming schemes because your IMAP client will display it as a folder named 'Family' with a subfolder named 'Friends.'"

LDS.org - Ensign Article - Some Thoughts on the Gospel and the Behavioral Sciences

LDS.org - Ensign Article - Some Thoughts on the Gospel and the Behavioral Sciences: "LDS behavioral scientists must extract both the obvious and hidden wisdom embedded in the value system of the gospel of Jesus Christ."

Make Your Own Storm Windows

Make Your Own Storm Windows: "I know that a lot of people with older homes have resorted to using plastic on their windows to eliminate drafts. I used to do this every year too. I checked into replacing the windows, but the cost was a small fortune. So here is what I came up with.

Supplies:

1x2 pieces of wood
Pieces of plexi glass
4 L brackets per window
primer
Small amount of your trim paint
Window clips, two per window (These are made by Stanley and look like big wing nuts with screws.)"

When a Windfall of Money Arrives, So Can Challenges - NYTimes.com

When a Windfall of Money Arrives, So Can Challenges - NYTimes.com: "Take time out from all those buying, spending and gifting decisions and sort through what you really want,” she said. “Usually you can do anything you want, just not everything, so take time to make decisions before you do anything.”"

IQ.ORG

IQ.ORG: "The non linear effects of leaks on unjust systems of governance"

Julian Assange's old blog.

Amazon.com: Race, Rhetoric, and Technology: Searching for Higher Ground (Ncte- Literacy and Composition Research) (NCTE-Routledge Research Series) (9780805853131): Adam J. Banks: Books

Amazon.com: Race, Rhetoric, and Technology: Searching for Higher Ground (Ncte- Literacy and Composition Research) (NCTE-Routledge Research Series) (9780805853131): Adam J. Banks: Books: "Race, Rhetoric, and Technology: Searching for Higher Ground (Ncte- Literacy and Composition Research) (NCTE-Routledge Research Series)"

MIT OpenCourseWare | Writing and Humanistic Studies | 21W.732-2 Introduction to Technical Communication: Ethics in Science and Technology, Fall 2006 | Readings

MIT OpenCourseWare | Writing and Humanistic Studies | 21W.732-2 Introduction to Technical Communication: Ethics in Science and Technology, Fall 2006 | Readings

LDS.org - Ensign Article - Some Thoughts on the Gospel and the Behavioral Sciences

LDS.org - Ensign Article - Some Thoughts on the Gospel and the Behavioral Sciences: "Chesterton warned about accommodating ourselves “to the trend of the time,” which he said “at its best consists entirely of people who will accommodate themselves to anything,” even “to a trend that isn’t there.” Meanwhile, while there may be much mocking, significant numbers of some sober scholars and thoughtful individuals in the world will notice the glow of the gospel light as it breaks forth in the behavioral sciences, as elsewhere, in preparation for the promised period Isaiah foresaw when “the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.” (Isa. 26:9; italics added.) But the spirit by which we proceed is not the spirit of this world."

ENAM 802:syllabus

ENAM 802:syllabus: "Cecelia Tichi, Shifting Gears : Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America"

Teen held in alleged Portland bomb plot - latimes.com

Teen held in alleged Portland bomb plot - latimes.com: "Mohamud boasted that he had written in support of violent jihad for an online, English-language propaganda magazine called Jihad Recollections, using the pen name Ibnul Mubarak.

The FBI later recovered the three articles, including one entitled 'Getting in shape without weights.' It seeks to introduce Pilates training to those preparing 'physically for jihad.'"

How Ma Bell Shelved the Future for 60 Years

How Ma Bell Shelved the Future for 60 Years: "This is the essential weakness of a centralized approach to innovation: the notion that it can be a planned and systematic process, best directed by a kind of central intelligence; that it is simply of matter of assembling all the best minds and putting them to work in unison. Were it so, the future could be planned and executed in a scientific manner."

Complaint Box: Sitting Tight - NYTimes.com

Complaint Box: Sitting Tight - NYTimes.com: "For me, the fun left flying when the extra rows of coach seats arrived. I’m not a freak. I’m only six feet tall, yet my toes often go numb after being squished up against the seat in front of me. And that’s before the person sitting there lowers the seat back. And, parents, you may think your child is adorable bouncing around beside you, but if I’m behind her, every bounce is a painful slam into my kneecaps. I have the bruises to prove it."

TSA Administrative Directive: Opt-Outters To Be Considered "Domestic Extremists"

TSA Administrative Directive: Opt-Outters To Be Considered "Domestic Extremists": "The terminology contained within the reported memo is indeed troubling. It labels any person who “interferes” with TSA airport security screening procedure protocol and operations by actively objecting to the established screening process, “including but not limited to the anticipated national opt-out day”� as a “domestic extremist.” The label is then broadened to include “any person, group or alternative media source” that actively objects to, causes others to object to, supports� and/or elicits support for anyone who engages in such travel disruptions at U.S. airports in response to the enhanced security procedures.

For individuals who engaged in such activity at screening points, it instructs TSA operations to obtain the identities of those individuals and other applicable information and submit the same electronically to the Homeland Environment Threat Analysis Division, the Extremism and Radicalization branch of the Office of Intelligence & Analysis (IA) division of the Department of Homeland Security."

TSA revenge screenings | MetaFilter

TSA revenge screenings | MetaFilter: "I kind of think its hilarious that as soon as upper class white people have to deal with police harassment on a regular basis, the world is ending."

Electric Solid Body Uke

Electric Solid Body Uke: "Check out moongazermusic.com for four string bridges. You can use a piezo style saddle with the hardtail bridges including a midi system. I'd recommend the Ghost sytem form GraphTech. Otherwise, use a standard magnetic pickup. I'd recommend using a bolt on neck to make the joint. Its a pretty easy process if you have a router. On this page, http://www.crossroadswood.com/shop.html, towards the bottom right there are a couple pictures of a jig that show one way of cutting the neck and pocket for a bolt on. I think its self explanatory."

Can Google Voice ring my iPod Touch? - Google Voice Help

Can Google Voice ring my iPod Touch? - Google Voice Help: "Although Gizmo5 can be used as call-out, the free version only works for 3 minutes. �This restriction can be bypassed however, by the following method:
1. Sign up/ possess a GV account.
2. Jailbreak Ipod (warranty is fine, all you have to do is restore it. research it. it's completely safe)
3. Download GV Mobile App through Cydia
4. Download Truphone for your Ipod Touch
5. Sign up for a free Gizmo5 account.
6. Once you sign up for the gizmo account, put in your truphone account address where gizmo has an option for incoming call forwarding (truphoneusername@truphone.com I think)
7. Add a phone through your GV Mobile application on the ipod. Enter your Gizmo number into this area."

Saturnalia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Saturnalia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Saturnalia was a time to eat, drink, and be merry. The toga was not worn, but rather the synthesis, i.e. colorful, informal 'dinner clothes'; and the pileus (freedman's hat) was worn by everyone. Slaves were exempt from punishment, and treated their masters with (a pretense of) disrespect. The slaves celebrated a banquet: before, with, or served by the masters. Yet the reversal of the social order was mostly superficial; the banquet, for example, would often be prepared by the slaves, and they would prepare their masters' dinner as well. It was license within careful boundaries; it reversed the social order without subverting it.[2]"

Taliban Leader in Peace Talks Was an Impostor - NYTimes.com

Taliban Leader in Peace Talks Was an Impostor - NYTimes.com: "Although officials from both countries hailed the arrest as a hallmark of American-Pakistani cooperation, Pakistani officials have since indicated that they orchestrated Mr. Baradar’s arrest because he was engaging in peace discussions without the ISI’s permission.

Afghan leaders have confirmed this account."

BRUSHES WITH HOCKNEY | More Intelligent Life

BRUSHES WITH HOCKNEY | More Intelligent Life: "He picks up his iPad and slips it into his jacket pocket. All his suits have been made with a deep inside pocket so that he can put a sketchbook in it: now the iPad fits there just as snugly. Even his tux has the pocket, he tells me."

The Sporting Scene: Jordan’s Moment : The New Yorker

The Sporting Scene: Jordan’s Moment : The New Yorker: "There is a photograph of that moment, Jordan’s last shot, in the magazine ESPN, taken by the photographer Fernando Medina. It is in color and covers two full pages, and it shows Russell struggling to regain position, Jordan at the peak of his jump, the ball high up on its arc and about to descend, and the clock displaying the time remaining in the game—6.6 seconds. What is remarkable is the closeup it offers of so many Utah fans. Though the ball has not yet reached the basket, the game appears over to them. The anguish—the certitude of defeat—is on their faces. In a number of instances their hands are extended as if to stop Jordan and keep the shot from going in. Some of the fans have already put their hands to their faces, as in a moment of grief. There is one exception to this: a young boy on the right, in a Chicago Bulls shirt, whose arms are already in the air in a victory call."

The Sporting Scene: Jordan’s Moment : The New Yorker

The Sporting Scene: Jordan’s Moment : The New Yorker: "Ebersol liked Michael Jordan very much, and was well aware that he and his network were the beneficiaries of Jordan’s unique appeal. Jordan’s presence in the finals was worth eight or nine million viewers to NBC. Ebersol was delighted by the ratings for this series so far—they would end up at 18.7, the highest ever. At this point, though, Ebersol was rooting not for Michael Jordan but for a seventh game, and that meant he was rooting, however involuntarily, for Utah. A seventh game would bring NBC and its parent company, General Electric, an additional ten or twelve million dollars in advertising revenues. Jordan’s exploits had brought many benefits to the N.B.A. over the years, but he was such a great player that no N.B.A. final in which he was involved had gone to the ratings and advertising jackpot of a seventh game."

Apple - Support - Discussions - iTunes 10 Auto Fill Free Space Results ...

Apple - Support - Discussions - iTunes 10 Auto Fill Free Space Results ...: "Re: iTunes 10 Auto Fill Free Space Results in 'Over Capacity' Warning.
Posted: Sep 26, 2010 8:16 AM � in response to: fhamilton410 �
� Reply Email

I had the same problem. I kept trying to get iTunes to Auto-Fill - up to the AVAILABLE capacity.
It kept refusing because of 'Over Capacity'
I tried the Summary - Manual - Apply which the previous poster suggested over and over and it still wouldn't Auto-Fill.

Finally this is the solution that worked for me:
1) Set iTunes to manually manage music and apply
2) Select ALL the music on your device (in my case iPhone) and DELETE it
3) Make the Auto-Fill settings you want and sync"

The Attention-Span Myth - NYTimes.com

The Attention-Span Myth - NYTimes.com: "So how did we find ourselves with this unhappy attention-span conceit, and with the companion idea that a big attention span is humankind’s best moral and aesthetic asset? In other eras, distractibility wasn’t considered shameful. It was regularly praised, in fact — as autonomy, exuberance and versatility. To be brooding, morbid, obsessive or easily mesmerized was thought much worse than being distractible. In “Moby-***,” Starbuck tries to distract Ahab from his monomania with evocations of family life in Nantucket. Under the spell of “a cruel, remorseless emperor” — his own single-mindedness — Ahab stays his fatal course. Ahab’s doom comes from his undistractibility."

Multiply this by HOW MANY mortgages out there? | MetaFilter

Multiply this by HOW MANY mortgages out there? | MetaFilter:

"Any sufficiently advanced financial instrument is indistinguishable from fraud."

Well, there's at least ONE "Whitie" could use some killin'... | MetaFilter

Well, there's at least ONE "Whitie" could use some killin'... | MetaFilter: "That sort of thing' means a show that transcends the usual 'I am a person watching musicians perform on stage' and becomes 'I am participating in a strange overwhlemingly sensate ritual that might destroy me'. They went on late and by the standards of later shows it was even pretty tame but they turned off all the lights and there was a moment and then suddenly small firecrackers were going off all over in the audience and then they dragged out a lot of stuff and set it on fire and played these massive interlocked beats with three drummers standing over a small red light on stage and they turned on a strobe and then sprayed out water on a long, flat arc over the crowd and into your face -- you'd see it caught in the strobe for an appreciable instant before SMACK in the face with it, it's a peak moment for you if you like sensation!"

David Foster Wallace's Personal Files - Newsweek

David Foster Wallace's Personal Files - Newsweek: "While many children are capable of conjuring imaginative tales, the grade-school Wallace has an unusual empathy for the adult double-bind of finding purpose in a job that also brings misery."

Gravity's Rainbow Death Pact - bangmoney.org

Gravity's Rainbow Death Pact - bangmoney.org: "If I were to meet Thomas Pynchon tomorrow, I wouldn't know whether to shake his hand or sucker-punch him. Probably both. I'd extend my right arm, take his hand in mine, give one good pump, then yank him towards my swinging left fist. As he lay crumpled on the ground beneath me, gasping in pain, I'd point a bony finger right between his eyes and say 'That was for Gravity's Rainbow.'"

Collaborative Insanity | MetaFilter

Collaborative Insanity | MetaFilter: "Courses might have been able to teach me how to learn those things and what to keep in mind:
how to participate in a tech forum/IRC channel/issues queue, or even just the fact that these things exist and are essential to keeping your skills up to date
how to debug for various browser/OS combinations and where to find out about the latest IE workarounds
accessibility: color contrast, alt text, semantic markup, etc
usability: say what you mean and don't change what ain't broke just because you want to be 'unique'"

International Klein Blue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

International Klein Blue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "International Klein Blue is outside the gamut of computer displays, and can therefore not be accurately portrayed on webpages."

Oliver James | FiveBooks

Oliver James | FiveBooks: "More intelligent women in the upper echelons of our society really do need to get their heads around the fact that the form of feminism we’ve had has been an absolute disaster. Anyone who has teenage daughters will quickly agree. They look at their teenage daughters and just think: ‘What the *** is this? Is this what we were fighting for? Ever shorter skirts, shagging on a random basis, completely obsessive concern with appearance, obsession with exam results? Is that what it was all about?’ Teenage girls at competitive schools are the most mentally ill group in our society."

Oliver James | FiveBooks

Oliver James | FiveBooks: "All this stuff about how society is making us ill and we’re all mentally ill because we’re richer sounds very nostalgic for a simpler past of warm beer and cricket. But as a woman surely things are better because we don’t die in childbirth or, ideally, get abused by our husbands?

It depends when exactly you choose to compare. If you compare with 1950 there is strong evidence from American research that a woman in her 20s today is five times more likely to be mentally ill using the same method of measurement as a woman going back to 1938. Actually, it includes women in their late teens as well and there is a linear increase the closer you get to the present day, overall. So, no. It is a complete myth that feminism in the American form, and I’m talking only about Britain and America here – the picture is probably very different in Sweden and Italy or Spain…�"

Nut consumption, vegetarian diets, ischemic heart disease risk, and all-cause mortality: evidence from epidemiologic studies — Am J Clin Nutr

Nut consumption, vegetarian diets, ischemic heart disease risk, and all-cause mortality: evidence from epidemiologic studies — Am J Clin Nutr: "Perhaps one of the most unexpected and novel findings in nutritional epidemiology in the past 5 y has been that nut consumption seems to protect against ischemic heart disease (IHD). Frequency and quantity of nut consumption have been documented to be higher in vegetarian than in nonvegetarian populations. Nuts also constitute an important part of other plant-based diets, such as Mediterranean and Asian diets. In a large, prospective epidemiologic study of Seventh-day Adventists in California, we found that frequency of nut consumption had a substantial and highly significant inverse association with risk of myocardial infarction and death from IHD. The Iowa Women's Health Study also documented an association between nut consumption and decreased risk of IHD. The protective effect of nuts on IHD has been found in men and women and in the elderly. Importantly, nuts have similar associations in both vegetarians and nonvegetarians. The protective effect of nut consumption on IHD is not offset by increased mortality from other causes. Moreover, frequency of nut consumption has been found to be inversely related to all-cause mortality in several population groups such as whites, blacks, and the elderly. Thus, nut consumption may not only offer protection against IHD, but also increase longevity."

ADHD: 12 Myths And Facts (PHOTOS)

ADHD: 12 Myths And Facts (PHOTOS): "A 2010 study in Pediatrics found that children with higher urine levels of organophosphate, a pesticide used on produce, had higher ADHD rates. Another 2010 study showed that women with higher urine levels of organophosphate were more likely to have a child with ADHD.

The studies suggest a possible link, but can't prove that pesticides cause ADHD. Marcy Rosenzweig Leavitt, PsyD, who works with ADHD patients in private practice in the Los Angeles area, recommends buying organic varieties of fruits and vegetables, especially those prone to high levels of pesticides (or scrubbing nonorganic produce before eating)."

Joel Fuhrman, M.D.: Heart Health: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease

Joel Fuhrman, M.D.: Heart Health: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: "recent data has shed light on the protective properties of almonds and walnuts on vascular health. (15, 16) The Physicians Health Study demonstrated that eating nuts and seeds regularly protects against sudden cardiac death caused by arrhythmia. The data suggests that following a low-fat diet for a long period of time, though effective at reducing atherosclerotic plaque, could actually increase the risk of sudden cardiac death. (17)"

How China swallowed 15% of 'Net traffic for 18 minutes

How China swallowed 15% of 'Net traffic for 18 minutes: "For about 18 minutes on April 8, 2010, China Telecom advertised erroneous network traffic routes that instructed US and other foreign Internet traffic to travel through Chinese servers. Other servers around the world quickly adopted these paths, routing all traffic to about 15 percent of the Internet’s destinations through servers located in China. This incident affected traffic to and from US government (‘‘.gov’’) and military (‘‘.mil’’) sites, including those for the Senate, the army, the navy, the marine corps, the air force, the office of secretary of Defense, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Commerce, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and many others. Certain commercial websites were also affected, such as those for Dell, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and IBM."

digital digs: prototyping a non-essay composition pedagogy

digital digs: prototyping a non-essay composition pedagogy

Nice piece on the obsolescence of the traditional academic essay.

Humanities Scholars Embrace Digital Technology - NYTimes.com

Humanities Scholars Embrace Digital Technology - NYTimes.com: "most humanities professors remain unaware, uninterested or unconvinced that digital humanities has much to offer. Even historians, who have used databases before, have been slow to embrace the trend. Just one of the nearly 300 main panels scheduled for next year’s annual meeting of the American Historical Association covers digital matters. Still, universities, professional associations and private institutions are increasingly devoting a larger slice of the pie to the field.

“The humanities and social sciences are the emerging domains for using high-performance computers,” said Peter Bajcsy, a research scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign."

Beer Cooler Sous Vide | MetaFilter

Beer Cooler Sous Vide | MetaFilter

Grub Hacker: Cheap Sous Vide Machine built on a budget

Grub Hacker: Cheap Sous Vide Machine built on a budget: "SousVideMagic controller"

SousVideMagic 1500D controller 0.1 resolution with 1800W/330

SousVideMagic 1500D controller 0.1 resolution with 1800W/330

Amazon.com: M. B. Berberich "Cran...'s review of SousVide Supreme SVS-10LS SousVide Supreme...

Amazon.com: M. B. Berberich "Cran...'s review of SousVide Supreme SVS-10LS SousVide Supreme...: "I am stunned by the price of this item though. I'm using my late mother's 50-year old Sunbeam roaster oven (similar to the Hamilton Beach 32229 22-Quart Roaster Oven on Amazon for [...]). I also have an older model of the 'SousVideMagic 1500D controller' which now sells for[...] and controls the temperature to within 0.1 degree F (really!). My setup holds 18 liters of water without danger of overflowing for less than [...]. You can duplicate this rig and give a second one to your mom and still come in at the same price as this 10 liter gadget.

Sous Vide is a spectacular way to cook, but not at this price."

News flash: Deadly terrorism existed before 9/11 - Ask the Pilot - Salon.com

News flash: Deadly terrorism existed before 9/11 - Ask the Pilot - Salon.com: "Body scanners are in the news this week. If a decade ago people were told that a day was coming when passengers would need to be looked at naked before getting on a plane, nobody would have believed it. Yet here we are, and what might be next?"

Who Will Stand Up to the Superrich? - NYTimes.com

Who Will Stand Up to the Superrich? - NYTimes.com: "“How can hedge-fund managers who are pulling down billions sometimes pay a lower tax rate than do their secretaries?” ask the political scientists Jacob S. Hacker (of Yale) and Paul Pierson (University of California, Berkeley) in their deservedly lauded new book, “Winner-Take-All Politics.” If you want to cry real tears about the American dream — as opposed to the self-canonizing tears of John Boehner — read this book and weep. The authors’ answer to that question and others amounts to a devastating indictment of both parties."

Organizing your great American novel

Organizing your great American novel: "Freeware program yWriter helps you plan out and organize your next great novel, breaking the necessary structuring of a story into small, manageable tasks."

Help me find addctive, uplifting indie pop/folk bands to listen to on repeat | Ask MetaFilter

Help me find addctive, uplifting indie pop/folk bands to listen to on repeat | Ask MetaFilter: "Help me find addctive, uplifting indie pop/folk bands to listen to on repeat"

LDS don’t get theological respect because they seek and shun mainstream acceptance, prof says | The Salt Lake Tribune

LDS don’t get theological respect because they seek and shun mainstream acceptance, prof says | The Salt Lake Tribune: "“Mormons like everyone else,” wrote Robert Putnam and David Campbell in their new book, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, “while almost everyone else dislikes Mormons.”"

EXCLUSIVE WITH CHRIS ANDERSON: On Founding A Robot Company, Writing Books, And Fathering 5 Kids--While Editing Wired

EXCLUSIVE WITH CHRIS ANDERSON: On Founding A Robot Company, Writing Books, And Fathering 5 Kids--While Editing Wired

CiteULike: Tracing Teachers' Use of Technology in a Laptop Computer School: The Interplay of Teacher Beliefs, Social Dynamics, and Institutional Culture

CiteULike: Tracing Teachers' Use of Technology in a Laptop Computer School: The Interplay of Teacher Beliefs, Social Dynamics, and Institutional Culture: "Research on ubiquitous computing in schools has documented that teachers often change instructional practices over time when using technology with students and has further suggested that teachers' use of technology may play a role in their shifting toward more constructivist pedagogy. Our two-year study takes an ethnographic perspective in examining how three middle school teachers learned to use technology in the context of a laptop computer program. The ways in which those teachers eventually integrated computers into classroom instruction were powerfully mediated by their interrelated belief systems about learners in their school, about what constituted 'good teaching' in the context of the institutional culture, and about the role of technology in students' lives. The condition of ubiquitous technology did not initiate teachers' movement toward constructivist instruction. Rather, the laptops were a catalyst that enabled one participant, who had a pre-existing dissatisfaction with teacher-centered practices, to transform her classroom through collaborative student work and project-based learning."

Edward Tufte is having a yard sale | MetaFilter

Edward Tufte is having a yard sale | MetaFilter: "Attending one of Tufte's full-day sessions in San Francisco was one of the most monumental disappointments of my professional life. It was 8 hours of dry-but-acceptable lecturing, chock full of 'turn to page 82 of 'Visual Display of Complicated Information' and read the 3rd paragraph down' ... silence ... then he'd read it to us and maybe talk a little bit more about it. Maybe. The guy's a genius in many regards and I agree with his sentiments against presenting information using slides in general, but he does a horrible job convincing people to present without them. It was just terrible."

Weapons Manual: Infographs by Max Gadney � HistoryNet

Weapons Manual: Infographs by Max Gadney � HistoryNet

Is Facebook Ruining Human Friendships? | Wired Science�| Wired.com

Is Facebook Ruining Human Friendships? | Wired Science�| Wired.com: "After analyzing thousands of photos, the scientists found that, on average, each student had 6.6 close friends in their online network. In other words, nothing has really changed; even the most fervent Facebook users still maintain only a limited circle of intimates."

Our Banana Republic - NYTimes.com

Our Banana Republic - NYTimes.com: "The richest 0.1 percent of taxpayers would get a tax cut of $61,000 from President Obama. They would get $370,000 from Republicans, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. And that provides only a modest economic stimulus, because the rich are less likely to spend their tax savings.

At a time of 9.6 percent unemployment, wouldn’t it make more sense to finance a jobs program? For example, the money could be used to avoid laying off teachers and undermining American schools."

cubicledrone comments on This Is Why We Pirate

cubicledrone comments on This Is Why We Pirate: "Piracy exists because there is no supply in a market with growing demand. People want reasonably priced, convenient digital content. Those companies that provide that product (Hulu, independent bands, Amazon.com, blogs, podcasters, App Store) are growing at a staggering rate. All other companies are suffering.
It has nothing to do with 'not wanting to pay for ***.' The proof is simple. Everyone who buys even a single orange at a grocery store has all the ingredients they need to never run out of oranges again, yet oranges are one of the most lucrative agricultural businesses in the country.
Water falls out of the sky for free. Bottled water is a billion-dollar business.
Fans can watch baseball on television for free. Ballparks are routinely sold out.
People will pay if you sell a good product. They won't pay otherwise. The end."

City Calendar

City Calendar: "Event: 'TED Screening: Lifestyle'

Library Activities
Date: Monday, December 06, 2010 At 03:00 PM
Duration: 1 Hour
Contact Info:
801.229.7050
Email:
URL: http://http://lib.orem.org/"

Reagan budget chief slams GOP on taxes | Raw Story

Reagan budget chief slams GOP on taxes | Raw Story: "'Two years after the crisis on Wall Street, it has been announced that bonuses this year will be $144 billion -- the highest in history. That's who is going to get this tax cut on the top -- two percent of the population. They don't need a tax cut. They don't deserve it.'"

You pay for WHAT? | Ask MetaFilter

You pay for WHAT? | Ask MetaFilter:

"paying for fried rice is like paying to rummage around in someone's fridge for leftovers."

Salt Lake City Blogs:Gavin's Underground-Kier Defstar

Salt Lake City Blogs:Gavin's Underground-Kier Defstar: "Kier: My first pieces were horrible. When it came to art I was definitely no natural. In fact for some reason I was really nervous and scared of the art aspect of it because the people I painted with were already superb artists, and the talent that runs in my family decided to skip me. I actually didn't even attempt a real piece until a few years after just tagging the streets. I had friends who started doing graff after me who advanced super fast, like Erups for example. But for me it was a long uphill battle. I'm still learning new techniques and trying to hone my craft everyday."

I love reading about artists who weren't born to it, who worked hard to develop their craft.

Speak, money—By Roger D. Hodge (Harper's Magazine)

Speak, money—By Roger D. Hodge (Harper's Magazine): "The corruption of our institutions manifests itself in a variety of ways, but in none so dramatic as the imbalance of national wealth, which in recent decades has shattered records formerly set in the late 1920s. Although it is often claimed that the gap between rich and poor began decisively to widen in the late 1970s, as if to absolve Ronald Reagan for what his followers no doubt count as his primary accomplishment, the total share of income of the wealthiest 10 percent of American families was well within the postwar norm until 1982, when Reagan’s policies began a massive, decades-long transfer of national wealth to the rich. Under Bill Clinton, who shamelessly appropriated the Reaganite agenda, the transfer was even more dramatic, as the top 10 percent captured an ever growing share of national income."

Speak, money—By Roger D. Hodge (Harper's Magazine)

Speak, money—By Roger D. Hodge (Harper's Magazine): "Alas, the agony of citizenship is never ending; voting is the beginning of civic virtue, not its end, and as suffrage has expanded so has its value been steadily debased. The locus of real power is elsewhere. Wealth and property qualifications, poll taxes, and the like are very far from being historical curiosities; they have simply mutated. Campaign contributions and other forms of political spending have assumed that old exclusionary function, and only those who can afford to pay are able truly to manifest their political will. Voters still “matter,” of course, but only as raw material to be shaped by the actual form of political influence—money—which molds the body politic by realizing itself in the ductile mass of common voters."

jwz - Did somebody just try to buy the British government?

jwz - Did somebody just try to buy the British government?: "True on the last point. Many storys of U.S. lawmakers and their donors that I've seen involve large campaign contributions after a key bill passed, not before. But they do it both way"

Did somebody just try to buy the British government? - Charlie's Diary

Did somebody just try to buy the British government? - Charlie's Diary: "For the past 20 weeks I have been engaged in a very strange dialogue with the two noble Lords, in the course of which I have been trying to bring to their attention the willing availability of a strange organisation which wishes to make a great deal of money available to assist the recovery of the economy in this country. For want of a better name, I shall call it foundation X."

Paging John Le Carre!

What BOARD GAME(s) have you been playing? - Fortress Ameritrash

What BOARD GAME(s) have you been playing? - Fortress Ameritrash: "Often Barrel of Monkeys on coffee makes your hands shaky, which is why I win over the art school hipsters I usually play with every time."

Commander_Q comments on TIL That In 1933 The Heads of Chase Bank, GM, Goodyear, Standard Oil, the DuPont family, and Senator Prescott Bush Tried To Lead a Military Coup Against President FDR & Install a Fascist Dictatorship in the United States (WTF)

Commander_Q comments on TIL That In 1933 The Heads of Chase Bank, GM, Goodyear, Standard Oil, the DuPont family, and Senator Prescott Bush Tried To Lead a Military Coup Against President FDR & Install a Fascist Dictatorship in the United States (WTF): "Fascism per se requires authoritarian and nationalist governance. It may not always be crazy Jew-killing (although it essentially always does involve some of that in practice), but fascism DOES necessarily mean strict oppression of minority views and cultural dispositions.

The essential problem with fascism is the same as the essential problem with communism: to decide by fiat what the goals, culture, and role of everyone will be requires either unanimous consensus or brutal repression of dissent."

Republican Game Plan Led to Historic Victory - NYTimes.com

Republican Game Plan Led to Historic Victory - NYTimes.com: "Representative Alan Grayson, Democrat of Florida, stood outside his home in Orlando two weeks before the election and marveled at the scope of the attacks and the candidates they were backing. “They think they can elect a ham sandwich,” he said.

He expressed relief that the barrage against him had come to an end, noting that his attackers appeared to have concluded that their work with him was done and moved on to another member.

They were correct. He was one of the 60 Democrats who lost their seats on Tuesday."

Republican Game Plan Led to Historic Victory - NYTimes.com

Republican Game Plan Led to Historic Victory - NYTimes.com: "They also tried to push Democrats into retirement, using what was described in the presentation as “guerilla tactics” like chasing Democratic members down with video cameras and pressing them to explain votes or positions. (One target, Representative Bob Etheridge of North Carolina, had to apologize for manhandling one of his inquisitors in a clip memorialized on YouTube. Only this week did Republican strategists acknowledge they were behind the episode.)"

Republican Game Plan Led to Historic Victory - NYTimes.com

Republican Game Plan Led to Historic Victory - NYTimes.com: "The White House struggled to keep Democrats in line, with a misplaced confidence in the power of the coalition that propelled Mr. Obama into office. Republicans capitalized on backlash to the ambitious agenda Mr. Obama and his party pursued, which fueled unrestricted and often anonymous contributions to conservative groups, some advised by a nemesis Democrats thought they had shaken, Karl Rove. That money so strengthened the Republican assault across the country that an exasperated Democratic party strategist likened it to “nuclear Whac-a-Mole.”"

iWebKit – Make a quality iPhone Website or Webapp

iWebKit – Make a quality iPhone Website or Webapp

Ka-ching!

Motorcycle Couriers in London - Artful Dodgers - Motorcycle Escape

Motorcycle Couriers in London - Artful Dodgers - Motorcycle Escape: "Street survival skills become second nature to long-term couriers. Most told me that they'd had their serious accidents early on. They learned quickly to assume other drivers can't see them until eye contact has been made--and once eye contact has been made, to assume the driver will purposely attempt to run them down. Veterans notice even the subtlest body language from drivers; things like the slight upward hunching of drivers' shoulders when they tense up before a desperate lane change."

Zero history (fb2) | Библиотека lib.ololo.cc

Zero history (fb2) | Библиотека lib.ololo.cc: "“I saw that an American cotton shirt that had cost twenty cents in 1935 will often be better made than almost anything you can buy today. But if you re-create that shirt, and you might have to go to Japan to do that, you wind up with something that needs to retail for around three hundred dollars. I started bumping into people who remembered how to make things. And I knew that how I dressed had always attracted some attention. There were people who wanted what I wore. What I curated, Bigend would have said.”"

Give Obama a Break - NYTimes.com

Give Obama a Break - NYTimes.com: "Until Mr. Obama, Democrats barely acknowledged that it was possible for a teacher to be bad."

The Sporting Scene: Jordan’s Moment : The New Yorker

The Sporting Scene: Jordan’s Moment : The New Yorker: "What professional basketball men were now seeing was something that had been partly masked earlier in his career by his singular physical ability and the artistry of what he did, and that something was a consuming passion not just to excel but to dominate. “He wants to cut your heart out and then show it to you,” his former coach Doug Collins said. “He’s Hannibal Lecter,” Bob Ryan, the Boston Globe’s expert basketball writer, said. When a television reporter asked the Bulls’ center, Luc Longley, for a one-word description of Jordan, Longley’s response was “Predator.”"