Posts from — July 2007

The Compass Point: Tom Peters – Educate for a creative society:
He’s not as funny or expansive as Ken Robinson but here is business guru Tom Peters on a rant about the lack of creativity in schools

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a nice video… it highlights one of my current concerns.

Patrick Tillman Was Murdered?:
But it comes from the AP:

Army medical examiners were suspicious about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Pat Tillman’s forehead and tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player’s death amounted to a crime, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

“The medical evidence did not match up with the, with the scenario as described,” a doctor who examined Tillman’s body after he was killed on the battlefield in Afghanistan in 2004 told investigators.

The doctors – whose names were blacked out – said that the bullet holes were so close together that it appeared the Army Ranger was cut down by an M-16 fired from a mere 10 yards or so away.
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umm, if this is a government cover-up … it is hugely problematic, but not more problematic than the reason pat tillman was in afghanistan to begin with… that the army and the office of the president would seek to cover this up is intolerable. how can the army trust them anymore, how can we?

this has more of the findings of the report.

System Administrator Appreciation Day:
July 27th, 2007 (Last Friday Of July)
8th Annual
System Administrator Appreciation Day

If you can read this, thank your sysadmin

Newsflash: Time May Not Exist | Physics & Math | DISCOVER Magazine
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The possibility that time may not exist is known among physicists as the “problem of time.” It may be the biggest, but it is far from the only temporal conundrum. Vying for second place is this strange fact: The laws of physics don’t explain why time always points to the future. All the laws—whether Newton’s, Einstein’s, or the quirky quantum rules—would work equally well if time ran backward. As far as we can tell, though, time is a one-way process; it never reverses, even though no laws restrict it.

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well, that makes some sense to me.

Introduction – Moving Image Education:
These pages will give you the confidence to go out and make films with young people in schools or community groups. A kind of “how to” guide brought together by a number of filmmaking experts who also work extensively in education.

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this could be handy for those interested in teaching filmmaking.

Middle Class Batman:
The image above is a creation of Mike Mitchell, who describes it as:

The idea is that this is a Middle Class Batman. Its still Bruce, and his parents were still murdered, but they were never rich, and he still ended up becoming Batman…but with a bit of a budget.

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Accordion guy points us to the art of Mike Mitchell, some pretty cool portraits combined with interesting cross ideation.

School of Dance:
Alan Watts, who finished grad school, has the right idea here.

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the end… is not the point of great music…. alex points us to a great recording. it is about education. This fits with my favorite TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson.

I am technologically useful:
Quite good. Starting from the year 0, you might be able to advance civilization to the 17th or even 19th century. You are technologically useful.
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same as shane… hmmm.

Web Trend Map:
This is amazing! You HAVE to go poke at this web trend map created by the folks over at Information Architects.

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this is pretty cool. it is like subway map of informational tools