Hey, Look at How all that Rah-Rah Paid Off!
For the past month or so, I’ve been the big old meanie who could love the messenger, but hate the shallow superficial condescending message of …
Happy 50th Smoot Anniversary!
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP) — The father of a measurement known as the “Smoot” returned Saturday to be honored at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the …
The Seattle Post Intelligencer Web Site Excerpted my GOOD Magazine article
Read it here: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/chalkboard/archives/150412.asp
Even Microsoft Won’t Use Vista
Microsoft’s “I’m a PC’ campaign created with Macs and Adobe software. However, not even Microsoft itself can wean itself off the Mac, as the metadata …
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9/11: The Cartoon and Multiple-choice Test
BrainPop gives me a headache. I have long tried to make sense of BrainPop, a web-based library of short cartoons covering “hundreds of standards-aligned topics …
1999, the Straight Talk Express and Pork Barrel Spending
Check out this fabulous bit of video of Daily Show “reporter,” Steve Carell following John McCain’s last campaign for President. It’s well worth watching through …
A Computer Game Worthy of Your Attention
Genius game designer Will Wright‘s new computer game, Spore, is available today. Will Wrights it the inventor of SimCity and The Sims. According to the …