This is a 4-minute plea from the generation that will take over from the boomers to vote in this election. Only the oldest of this largest generation in American history will get to vote, but now is the start of the takeover. Just in time.
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Cover image I really enjoy large non-fiction books about a single simple subjects. Salt, for example. Or networks. Or candy. Now one has come out about sewage. Rose George is an investigative journalist. I’ve got this one on order. The story of civilization has been the story of separating you from your waste. British [...] You remember the old Wassup commercials by Annheiser-Busch for Budweiser beer, right? Now you can see an updated version for our times, with a nice twist at the end. This is a short clip about beer, and friends, and women. Guess which one gets the highest priority? In a recent report by Sarah Perez over at ReadWriteWeb we discover Howard Rheingold has been busy making the Social Media Classroom. This may have a significant effect on Moodle, another open-source project for a CMS (Classroom Management System). Although they are different, with SMC focusing on communication, and Moodle focusing on Management, I foresee [...] The OEC is a truly monumental (2 billion words, each tagged by country, and more) digital expansion of the incredible Oxford English Dictionary. Note the OED is less than 100 years old. Now with this new and constantly updated “root” source of information you can drill down and get information about words in myriad ways. [...]
fantastic contraption I don’t like to study, but I love to learn. Serious Games and Persuasive Games are two books I have been reading recently. They are about using games in education. I like this idea, and have written about it before. Here are a couple of games. Try them out and see how well [...] On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears at the United Nations site. Now you can see it in a new format that brings out the ideas more clearly. Get more information at the Human Rights [...] Sublime. Gail Collins, the progressive, wishing for good old times. How can you assemble the faults in such a simple way? Here we have it. From BoingBoing, we have a great (short, 14 minute video) assessment of the Keating scandal and John McCain’s role in it. Devastating. Yoko, are you listening? Mark over on BoingBoing points us to Bob Staake’s video of creating a picture using very old software. It is the best illustration I have seen in a long time. Design is in the mind, not on the screen. Dad has been going on and on about his recent election to the local Golden Kiwanis volunteer club in Loveland, Colorado. Loveland is a great town, and people like Dad, taking over from people like him, have made it that way. Deliberate, safe, full of life, slow, and yet with just enough cosmopolitanism to make [...] Jonah Lehrer over in Boston writes about how people make decisions. The most famous decider is in the White House, and goes with his gut, to the exclusion of obvious evidence to the contrary in some cases. John McCain is similar in style, preferring to make quick decisions and live with them without complaint. I [...] There are elections in the US coming up soon, and it looks likely that there will be elections here in Japan as well. I’m really saddened that in both of “my” countries, only about half the people vote. I have to spend a lot of time to vote in the US, and I can’t vote [...] New York Times has an article about the best of online professors. Now that many universities are making their lectures available online for free, sometimes directly and sometimes through services like iTunesU, the next logical step is to separate the wheat from the chaff. Who are the best? Read the article. [...] I use an excellent program for research, called Zotero. It helps me catalog everything I find about my research subjects into one easily accessed place. One of the best features is that it can pull the bibliographic information off a web page such as Amazon, and put it into a traditional format, such as APA [...] |
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