Bagels and Bodysnatchers
This story seems to have caught everyone's attention today. I decided to dedicate this song to the good professor and her quest to get her bagel in the face of Starbucks' Kafkaesque wall of language...
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Aug 19
Aug 18
Ceremony (covered by Radiohead)
This Joy Division song never fails to bring a smile to my face, pure Aufhebung. And I'm glad to have discovered Radiohead, some 15 years after the fact. You're never too old to learn new things, nor...
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Aug 9
Christmas is Coming!
In case you haven't noticed, we're getting closer to Christmas. I'll beat even the most enthusiastic retailers to the punch and get the ball rolling. Enjoy!: David Fonseca is a Portuguese pop singer...
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Aug 3
Chomsky Talking about Wikileaks
Here's Noam Chomsky talking about Wikileaks and what he thinks is more significant news: The issue of nuclear contamination of Iraq through vaporized depleted uranium is one that does need more exposure...
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Jul 19
Julian Assange Interviewed at/by TED
Here's Julian Assange, the public face of Wikileaks, being interviewed by Chris Anderson, the head of TED. It's a good interview, Anderson asks all the important questions that need to be asked of an...
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Jul 2
Wikireader
Wikireader is a really neat idea. It's a physical widget carrying a copy of Wikipedia around for consultation. This would be great for kids, and it seems that kids are the market that its aimed at. Personally...
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Jul 2
How Kind of the American Scholar...
... to provide a material example of what the author of the article is writing about. Check out the first paragraph in the photo and then look at the ad at the bottom. The article this image is taken...
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Jul 1
Finland Makes Broadband Access a Right
The Finnish government has made broadband access a right. My inner Finn is happy to hear the news. How nice it is to hear from a country whose politics haven't been subverted by the money and lobbying...
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Jun 29
Plato Code Cracked. Wow. Did I Say WOW?
Jay Kennedy of Manchester University has proven (?!) that Plato put encoded knowledge into his dialogues! It turns out that Plato was hiding statements about mathematics and nature inside the dialogues...
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Jun 9
The Future of Teaching and Community Knowledge Building?
Here is a PBS Story on the Khan Academy, one of the latest stories coming out of YouTube: I have to laugh to see some of the reactions that can found around the internet. Vested interest...
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