Posts from — March 2007

Many Americans See Little Point To Web: Survey – Internet Technology News by InformationWeek:
Park Associates, a Dallas-based technology market research firm, said 29 percent of U.S. households, or 31 million homes, do not have Internet access and do not intend to subscribe to an Internet service over the next 12 months.
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to me, this is unsurprising. most people are too busy… the have one or two jobs, families, etc. the internet is not seen as valuable in their lives.

Why the Religious Right Supports Bush | Diatribune:
I asked him why he voted for Bush. He said, with a cold, straight face, “To bring about the rapture.”

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scary….

Naomi Leibowitz:
TASTING RACHAEL RAY, 2006
THIS VIDEO PROJECT IS COMPRISED OF CLIPS FROM OVER 30 EPISODES OF RACHAEL RAY’S SHOW “$40 A DAY” ON FOOD NETWORK. EVERY EPISODE, RAY VISITS A DIFFERENT CITY AND TRIES TO DINE OUT FOR LESS THAN $40 PER DAY.

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this video might just be the limit…. of fandom.

WDCS Life size whale – Das größte Banner der Welt:

life size whale….

Scribd – [ebook][e-book] 16 things it takes most of us 50 years to learn

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Things
It Takes Most Of Us 50 years to learn:

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good list… worth 5 minutes of reflection

Clip: Mario Kart Recreated Yet Again… – Kotaku:
Clip: Mario Kart Recreated Yet Again…

Qbesq:

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great new toy

Wow. Just wow.:
Here is a recent classroom moment that totally captures the essence of how hard it is to teach math in my school and I’d venture to suspect that ours is not the only school in NYC like this. I will preface this by saying that it is a class comprised of kids who were incredibly frustrated or incredibly MIA in the algebra class from the first semester, so this is not representative of all of my students.
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i have seen people in graduate school who can’t do algebra too… i wonder how they shop and make judgments about money. what must life be like for someone who cannot do basic arithmetic, who has the ability, but never learned.

ludios.org – Science > Greek Gods > Tree:

a family tree of the greek gods.

MIS | Magazine > Adapting to the user:
Singapore Management University may be the new kid on the block, but it could teach organisations a lesson or two when it comes to executing projects that engage users and stick to budgets.
Ultra-prestigious institutions like Harvard or Cambridge may wear their lengthy histories like badges of honor, but the story of Singapore Management University (SMU) shows being a relative upstart has its own advantages.

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interesting…