April 2011
7 posts
Holy Thursday →
Is this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land, Babes reduced to misery, Fed with cold and usurous hand?
Is that trembling cry a song? Can it be a song of joy? And so many children poor? It is a land of poverty!
And their sun does never shine,And their fields are bleak and bare, And their ways are filled with thorns: It is eternal winter there.
For where’er the sun does shine,...
June 2010
10 posts
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Many users, however, will have to add more memory if they want to run Mac OS X:...
– Ah, the good ole days…
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Flickr Says Thanks for All the Fish
It’s really not that big of a deal, but I’ve been a Pro member for the last three years… words like this lead me to think that maybe Yahoo isn’t putting that much long term investment in the Flickr service.
Thanks, Flickr…
Why only until June 1? We promised you access to your all time data, and we’re disappointed we’ve not been able to deliver on...
May 2010
51 posts
As technological skills become synonymous with literacy, it is imperative that...
– The Real Time Web & K-12 Education - In and Out of the Classroom
Amen.
Young digital natives are training their brains for technological expertise but...
– iHUMAN | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
Even with cheap printed books, you can tell that someone proofed every page....
– Daring Fireball Linked List: Texts, as Opposed to Books
Astute comment from Gruber that reminds me of the transition from handwritten manuscripts and texts (often laboriously copied) to texts manufactured on printing presses at the end of the late Renaissance.
Over the next five years, I expect...
Don't Forget Your Towel Today
Towel Day is an annual celebration on the 25th of May, as a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams (1952-2001). On that day, fans around the universe proudly carry a towel in his honour.
http://towelday.org/
Volatile and Decentralized: The Secret Lives of... →
I think I made the right decision to scrap my dreams of being the Professor in Good Will Hunting and go for the teacher in Dead Poet’s Society.
We realize that removing features and support is not easy, but with this spring...
– Official Google Reader Blog: Spring Cleaning: Comments, offline, and older browser support
I love the way the Google Reader team links to developers that work in both the Google and the Apple spaces. That rocks.
We report the design, synthesis, and assembly of the 1.08-Mbp Mycoplasma...
– Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome
The more research I do on this, the more awe-struck I am by the accomplishment and potentials.
“To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life” indeed.
However, the beautiful calamity of...
While I am a Luddite who fears powerful folks sashaying with hubris, I cannot...
– Science teacher: Craig Venter: Cautionary Tale One
Sometimes, life is a lot like Lost (or the other way around).
At that time, Bent Stumpe was an electronics engineer, newly recruited to work...
– The bowling balls - CERN Bulletin
Fascinating how revolutionary objects often get their start as very practical ideas.
Spartanburg Day School's New Upper School
“The architectural style is a little bit different than what you’ve seen on campus so far,” Jacobs said. “This is really a new image for the school. It looks back to sort of the history of private day schools in this country.”
So exciting to be a part of this process and I’m happy my students will get to enjoy the benefits of a new space and ever-vitalized...
Wilco – Kamera →
http://www.last.fm/music/Wilco
Waylon Jennings – Me And Bobby McGee →
http://www.last.fm/music/Waylon+Jennings
Beginnings of the Spring Final for Robotics 8 at Spartanburg Day School in Spartanburg, SC.
Over and over again, I find that people’s mental model of who can see what...
– apophenia » Blog Archive » Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant)
Exactly.
Speaking to my students about privacy and 6 degrees never seems to hit home.
I should do more demonstrations of how Facebook’s default privacy settings really does expose them in ways they...
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Find out what basic safety equipment is in the lab. This affects what kind of...
– Question from a new teacher
Very relevant and timely info for those of our species lucky enough to be entering the teaching profession but that have no clue what they’re in for…