Posts from — December 2007

BBC NEWS | Business | The US sub-prime crisis in graphics:
The US sub-prime crisis in graphics
The US sub-prime mortgage crisis has lead to plunging property prices, a slowdown in the US economy, and billions in losses by banks. It stems from a fundamental change in the way mortgages are funded.
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the best explanation of the sub-prime crisis that i’ve seen.

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Best Buy Handing Out C&D Letters for Christmas at Improv Everywhere:
Best Buy

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best buy joins walmart on my boycott list. i bought a fair amount from them in the past, but now they are picking on laughing squid, who should contact chilling effects asap.

How Do I Look? (Or: Paintings from “Understanding Human Behavior”):
“It’s more like a handbook on how to live a life of quiet desperation. With a few pictures of boobs in it.”
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Accordionguy posts these cool constructs of self and other images.

Books: None of the Above: Books: The New Yorker:
I.Q. measures not just the quality of a person’s mind but the quality of the world that person lives in.
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this is a good explanation of culturally generated differences in intelligence.

Plato for primaries | comment | EducationGuardian.co.uk:
What is the meaning of life when you’re six? asks Jonathan Wolff

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it is never too young to start to develop some practical reasoning in children.

MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning – Series – The MIT Press [del.icio.us]:
Six books, to buy or read freely online, on “the effect of digital media tools on how people learn, network, communicate, and play, and how growing up with these tools may affect peoples sense of self, how they express themselves, and their ability to lea

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Jill posts about the macarthur series. I’m a bit disappointed at the contents. They are from my cursory glance, very normal. That is fine for scholarship, but I don’t think it actually speaks as well as it could for the transformations that are actually taking place. We’ll see if my mind is changed as i read the articles in more depth.

CBC.ca Arts – TV chef James Barber of The Urban Peasant fame dies:
Cookbook author and television chef James Barber, who appeared on CBC-TV for 10 years as The Urban Peasant, has died.
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he was one of my favorites. i own all of his ginger tea cookbooks.