Category — General

Bug Labs: Products:

BUG is a collection of easy-to-use, open source hardware modules, each capable of producing one or more Web services. These modules snap together physically and the services connect together logically to enable users to easily build, program and share innovative devices and applications. With BUG, we don’t define the final products – you do.
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heh, i made a proposal for this back in 1998-2000. modular computing systems…

GlamGuns.com! Guns for Girls and Glamorous Weaponry!:
The Glambo Signature Series “Hello Kitty” HK-AK-47
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one of the first posts on this blog was the hello kitty pistol. sadly that image is no longer linked, nor does it show up on the page that reverse cowgirl originally pointed to on “ladies weapons”. Of course you won’t find it on her new blog either.

Rush, Little Baby – The Boston Globe:
Rush, Little Baby
How the push for infant academics may actually be a waste of time – or worse.
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My colleague jason… teaches this stuff….

Gustavo Dudamel – Classical Music – Los Angeles Philharmonic – New York Times:
Across Venezuela the sistema has established 246 centers, known as nucleos, which admit children between 2 and 18, assign them instruments and organize them into groups with instructors. Typically practicing for two or three hours every day, the children are performing recognizable music virtually from the outset.
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This venezuelan program seems to be what i think we can do with most education. Just give the kids some PCR systems and let’s teach them some biology. Go for it, some kids won’t get it, some kids will be amazing. The key it seems to me is to ‘trust them’ as they are the future, so give them access to knowledge and let them practice and experiment from the start.

The Science Education Myth:
The Science Education Myth
Forget the conventional wisdom. U.S. schools are turning out more capable science and engineering grads than the job market can support
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so this is a myth, i was a bit suspicious. The thing to think of though… is not really that we are overproducing what the market can hold, but that if we are making them for the market, are we really making engineers and scientists that can… change the world. Perhaps they are scientists and engineers a bit more than they should be? perhaps they should be more animators and painters.

The Chicago Metaverse Meetup (Chicago, IL) – Meetup.com:
The Chicago Metaverse Meetup
Meetup with other local players of the online gaming community, Second Life, and all sorts of other virtual communities! Gather with other players, talk about the game, and make new “offline” friends!

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come and have fun.

ESPN Video Beta:

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everyone tries this… sometimes it works

35 today. still mostly feel like i’m 19 more or less, so that’s something, but alas, i have much more work to do than i have time to accomplish, such is life.

News from hatebook’s aspirations of world domination — hatebook:
Hatebook is an anti-social utility that connects you with the people YOU HATE.

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Luckily… i don’t hate anyone. some people i prefer not to be around, but other than that. My greatest foes are really those people who promote overdetermination and underdetermination.