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Hellenic Ministry of Culture. The Hellenic Ministry of Culture The Hellenic Ministry of Culture and its many guides and maps for hundreds of Greek archaeological sites, monuments and museums. Here's one of Herakleion, in Crete. [MetaFilter]

for those who are planning on hitting greece this year, I'd like two, but i think depending on my situation, that i will do a greece/turkey think next year because i just have to see http://www.olympostreehouses.com/

Comment on the Department of Education's third
National Education
Technology Plan.

See also the USDE
press
release. [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

if you haven't commented comment soon, comment loud….

Harvard Chief, at Commencement, Vows Change. Speaking on Harvard's 352nd commencement day, Lawrence H. Summers, the university's president, pledged to reshape the undergraduate experience, including the core curriculum. By David M. Herszenhorn. [New York Times: Education]

If i were he, which i am not, i would propose the following changes. The core curriculum should be 10 3 hour classes, and each student would have to complete 2 more 10, 3 hour class majors or one extended 15 class major with a 5 class minor. for those 90 hours, 3 years, they would receive their B.A. in Liberal Arts with their majors/minors listed. There would be no professionalized degrees at that level. There would be no 'engineers' for instance or Business majors. they would be awarded with a masters in their specific area after 2 more years of study, the first would be an honors b.a. year, the second would be a master's year. this would be a leadership move in solving the problem of the professionalization/technicalization of the bachelor's degree.

Fail while daring greatly.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat and blood;  who strives valiantly;  who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;  but who does actually strive to do the deeds;  who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause;  who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

- Theodore Roosevelt

[Curiouser and curiouser!]

this is a good quote, for a long time, t.r. has been my favorite president.

Museum of the History of Science. The Museum of the History of Science , Oxford, has an impressive collection of online exhibits – from medieval scientific instruments and the history of cameras to images of Tycho Brahe and 'the geometry of war' – mathematics and the early modern European battlefield. [MetaFilter]

lots of interesting work here, it'd be great to use in a class.

Cheese 'can be as addictive as morphine' [Ananova: Quirkies]

this gives new meaning to aardman movies.

Subculture morphology [bOing bOing]

ok, this has been an argument that I've made to quite a few people since I've been around 14, subcultures are about normalization to a different aspect of the same thing, it is about changing yourself to be like others, not about being yourself. if you want to be you, strick out, be brave, try something, but don't join someone else, because that isn't being you, it is just making a choice to be with or like them, and usually you end up, as this project demonstrates, just like them….

Intern for the Lafayette Project. Are you in the New York City area and looking for an interesting project? We are looking for an intern here at the Lafayette Project. Job description follows:

The Lafayette Project is looking for an intern with geek tendencies and an interest in bringing weblogs to a wider audience. Familiarity with weblogs and some technical knowledge (XHTML + CSS, or Java) is required but a willingness to learn is more important than experience.

Work will mostly involve coding and testing, other assorted tasks as necessary. You'll also have the opportunity to meet folks in the tech industry and attend events. The position is based in Tribeca (Manhattan, NY) and you will work directly with the Project Director, Meg Hourihan, and Lead Engineer Mark Wilkie. Meg co-founded the company behind weblogging tool Blogger (recently purchased by Google) and is an author and frequent speaker on weblogs. The position can be part or full-time and a modest stipend is available. Please submit a resume and cover letter to meg@megnut.com with the subject LP intern. [megnut]

this will be a great job for someone, so I'll spread the news….

Hodgman on food. John Hodgman, former professional literary agent, is now a food columnist (my dream job!) for Men's Journal. In April he went In Search of the Next Big Fish. In May, we discover him Rediscovering the Lost Art of Bitters. And a quick search yields many more results, including an article extoling “the Lobsterwich – the perfect summer sandwich.” Move over, Steingarten, there's a new man on the block! [megnut]

mmm, yes, awesome job, but the lobsterwich is not ideal for the summer, the fried chicken drumstick is ideal for summer food. as it is light, and portable without refridgeration.

get it while you can. Jed Horovitz has produced an extraordinary film about the “culture wars” which may well not be around for long. You can get Willful Infringement on DVD. Many people should. When the lawyers find this, we'll need archives stored in many places. (Note: the web page says I'm in the film, but only for a few seconds. The really great characters are two clowns.) [Lessig Blog] [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

I think this will be a handy movie to teach some classes with…