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I Fucked Alec Baldwin in His Ass

I Fucked Alec Baldwin in His Ass 06/23/2004 12:15 PM
I can't decide whether to read this book now or wait for the movie, which I see as an Oscar-potential project for Halle Berry and Jake Gyllenhaal as you've never seen him before.

The Onion Report: Poor People Pretty
Much Fucked

The Onion Report: Poor People Pretty
Much Fucked 12/11/2003 03:50 AM
factually accurate article .. still outperforms

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"The Onion | Report: Poor People Pretty
Much Fucked"

"The Onion | Report: Poor People Pretty
Much Fucked" 12/10/2003 10:15 PM

Boston.com / News / Education / Higher
education / UMass president criticizes
student's column on felled soldier

Boston.com / News / Education / Higher
education / UMass president criticizes
student's column on felled soldier 04/30/2004 09:20 AM
UMass president criticizes student's column .. Boston Globe .. hammer:

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Awesomely fucked-up magic eye trick
generated out of plain text (with thanks
to Matt Webb for blowing my mind)

Awesomely fucked-up magic eye trick
generated out of plain text (with thanks
to Matt Webb for blowing my mind) 06/23/2004 06:18 AM
with a message

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Data Management Ranks 29th as Texas’s
Fastest Growing Technology Company in
Deloitte Texas Crescent Technology Fast
50 Program

Data Management Ranks 29th as Texas’s
Fastest Growing Technology Company in
Deloitte Texas Crescent Technology Fast
50 Program 09/15/2004 02:00 AM
Attributes great team work and flawless execution to its 416 Percent Revenue Growth. [PRWEB Sep 15, 2004]

Microsoft Celebrates National Small
Business Week with Technology and
Service Offerings for Small Businesses

Microsoft Celebrates National Small
Business Week with Technology and
Service Offerings for Small Businesses 05/18/2004 01:31 PM
In recognition of National Small Business Week and the significant role the nation's 7.5 million small businesses play in the U.S. economy, Microsoft is teaming with other organizations that focus on small companies, including the Small Business Administration, to provide higher levels of support and services.

Microsoft Solutions for Small and Medium
Business: Small IT Solution

Microsoft Solutions for Small and Medium
Business: Small IT Solution 07/19/2004 11:14 AM

"Small Business Trends|Analyzing Trends
Affecting Small Businesses..."

"Small Business Trends|Analyzing Trends
Affecting Small Businesses..." 06/02/2004 04:49 PM

SAP Software Presentation - "Small
Businesses Software Today? Achieving
Immediate Gains and Long-Term Growth" -
The San Francisco Bay Area Small
Business Conference, September 15th,
Jack London Square Conference Center,
Oakland, California

SAP Software Presentation - "Small
Businesses Software Today? Achieving
Immediate Gains and Long-Term Growth" -
The San Francisco Bay Area Small
Business Conference, September 15th,
Jack London Square Conference Center,
Oakland, California 08/31/2004 02:27 AM
eBig (www.ebig.org) monthly meeting is presented by eBig and The Small Business Conference. The ebig monthly meeting will be held on September 15th, at 6 PM, at the Jack London Inn, Oakland. The first presentation will be Sherrie Schmit of ExpressWare discussing content management integration with Business Intelligence. Pizza is provided by Silicon Networks. This will be followed by Rick Pitts, Vice President, Channel Sales & Development, MySAP All-in-One for Small & Midsize Business, SAP America, Inc. "Small Businesses Software Today? Achieving Immediate Gains and Long-Term Growth." [PRWEB Aug 31, 2004]

Small Business Trends|Analyzing Trends
Affecting Small Businesses, Midsize
Businesses and Entrepreneurs

Small Business Trends|Analyzing Trends
Affecting Small Businesses, Midsize
Businesses and Entrepreneurs 06/01/2004 05:45 AM
This week's Carnival of the Capitalists .. Small Business Trends

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Northern And Southern California
Businesses For Sale Dipped This Past
Week To 324 Business & Franchise Sales.
These Small Businesses Were Sold By
Business Brokers, Small Business Owners,
& Real Estate Agents Throughout
California.

Northern And Southern California
Businesses For Sale Dipped This Past
Week To 324 Business & Franchise Sales.
These Small Businesses Were Sold By
Business Brokers, Small Business Owners,
& Real Estate Agents Throughout
California. 06/23/2004 03:08 AM
Northern And Southern California Businesses For Sale Dipped This Past Week To 324 Business & Franchise Sales. These Small Businesses Were Sold By Business Brokers, Small Business Owners, & Real Estate Agents Throughout California. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2004]

Self-education

Self-education 01/22/2004 02:11 AM
I grew up in an abusive household, but I'm determined to be happy. Am I capable of it?

Education and Words

Education and Words 03/15/2003 01:48 AM

Tyler is worri ed that college cheaters might get an unfair head-start in the job market.  In my experience, he has nothing to worry about.  GPA is certainly something we look at when reviewing resumes, but students often fret about GPA with an intensity that is rarely justified by subsequent life experience.  Good grades can sometimes play a part in getting a candidate invited to an interview (which is admittedly important for people starting out), but again I wouldn't worry too much about cheaters.  My sense is that people normally don't cheat unless they feel that they need to -- in other words, people cheat in order to avoid getting kicked out of college, not as a way to get the sort of GPAs that might stand on their own to get someone into an interview.  You could argue that it's unfair for a 2.0 student to perhaps get a job based on a fraudulent 3.2 GPA.  But with a 3.2, it isn't going to be the GPA that plays the major part in that person getting a job anyway.  And if they are the sort who need to cheat on college exams, they'll be left behind and Tyler won't be working anywere near them five years from now.

~

This makes a nice segue to a rant that's been building for awhile.  Nothing annoys me more than those who whine "the government doesn't do enough to educate our children!"  This seems to be a very popular political tactic, but turns education on its head and does more harm than good.  Education is not a passive thing that students have done to them, but rather an active thing that students do for themselves.  If a person wants to learn Calculus, History, or Music; but doesn't, he has nobody to blame but himself.  It is not the parents' fault, it is not the teachers' fault, and it is certainly not the government's fault.  There are plenty of good Calculus books available, and the cause of failure to learn isn't lack of government funding or lack of quality teaching -- it is lack of reading the book.

It is true that children don't normally teach themselves to read, but this is really the sort of thing that parents should teach their children.  Even if 50% of children enter first grade without being able to read, teaching kids to read is a tiny fraction of what our government spends on "education".  And once a child knows how to read, virtually all of the world's learning becomes hers for the taking.  The invention of written language guaranteed that great "teachers" could continue to communicate to students long after the death of the teacher.  The printing press lowered the cost of such communications almost to zero, and public libraries made such teaching affordable to societies poorest members.  It is impossible to overstate the impact that these three developments have had on humans' ability to teach one another, yet we still have people who reach adulthood without knowing basic arithmetic.

I believe that the advent of the Internet and mass storage are having the same sort of impact on humans' ability to teach and learn that the printing press had.  And furthermore, I think that the "semantic web" will be another such leap for mankind.  But even without today's "mass-storage web" and the coming "semantic web", there is absolutely no excuse for someone failing to learn something that he or she desires to learn. 

Kids today have things soooo much better than Aristotle had.  I wish they would stop whining already, and "just read the book!" (as Mark MacLeod would say)

~

And speaking of literacy, here is a nice little story about the "100 words you should know".  This list has provoked some disagreement recently, with some people violently rejecting the idea that flowery words are evidence of intellectual horsepower.  It is true that people sometimes use intimidating words as a sort of facade to dazzle and deflect away from real intellectual deficiencies.  But that is not the same as saying that a rich vocabulary is not worth acquiring.  Words are the atoms of language, and language is the substrate of thinking (especially abstract, higher-level thinking).  Words lubricate the brain.

On the other hand, I have a hard time taking seriously a list which considers "Ziggurat" a sign of intelligence.  I suspect they mixed up the "words that help you think" with "words that are good for Jr. High spelling-bee finals".

 

A virtual education

A virtual education 05/02/2004 07:32 PM
Straits Times May 2 2004 11:20PM GMT

Webl0gs in education

Webl0gs in education 09/21/2004 04:29 PM
Via Scripting News, I see a post by Michael Feldman of Dowbrigade wishing for a stronger uptake of weblogging in the classroom. Michael's a professor at Harvard and/or Boston University (I couldn't quite figure it out) and has one class...

Discounted Education

Discounted Education 08/02/2004 02:08 PM
Private education stocks are hit hard today, with Corinthian Colleges declining the most.

Microsoft, education the key

Microsoft, education the key 09/23/2004 12:41 AM
AME Info Sep 23 2004 5:04AM GMT

Education vs. faith

Education vs. faith 09/03/2004 10:19 AM
Muslim girls in France, concerned about learning and shocked by the hostage crisis in Russia, start school with little defiance of the new ban on head scarves.

Education Policy

Education Policy 03/19/2005 02:19 AM

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Where is education in election?

Where is education in election? 04/15/2005 06:44 PM
The BBC's Mike Baker wonders why - whatever the parties say - education is not topping the election agenda.

Without an Education, Will Techies Go
Far Enough?

Without an Education, Will Techies Go
Far Enough? 12/19/2004 03:43 PM

For this article, I am standing firmly on a soap box.

The Associated Press reported, today, on a few information technologist that are doing well in their young careers, so well, in fact, that they each hope to retire before reaching middle age, and they attained their success without a formal higher education. This article struck a raw chord with me, because I emphasize the value of formal education to all of the students whom I teach, including those seeking a B.S. in information technology (IT) and those pursuing a M.B.A. with a further concentration in IT.

Aggregating Education

Aggregating Education 03/11/2003 10:45 AM

I know it seems like I'm only talking about RSS these days, but that's because 1) it's beginning to hit a critical mass, 2) I very much believe libraries need to be part of this (if not leading it), and 3) it's on my mind because of my upcoming presentation with Steven Cohen on this topic.

However, it's not just me. Ken Tompkins is thinking about aggregators, too, and he's doing me one better by actually creating some. For his campus, he's currently aggregating NY Times and BBC feeds in one aggregator, Manila sites in a second aggregator, and the feeds from both aggregators into one "meta-aggregator." Ken writes:

"I have just begun to consider rss in college literature teaching.... We have a Frontier server and, of course, I know about the aggregator in both Manila and Radio.

So, I've worked out a way to aggregate our student Manila sites or, at least, the best ones as well as provide a way to aggregate news of interest to Arts & Humanities students....

These are very modest and display nothing important. I just got them working today. They need formatting and a swipe at css. For me, what is important, is that I now have a technique for aggregating sites of any flavor -- faculty, student, major, etc -- and can easily set faculty to creating similar sites for their departments."

Very impressive, Ken! This is another good experiment to watch. Is it my imagination or is education becoming an epicenter of RSS activity? Certainly more than at the BigPubs these days.

Ken describes a setup similar to what I want for Illinois libraries. For our "News Exchange Web Service" (NEWS) grant project, we're going to get four of the twelve Illinois Library Systems blogging with accompanying RSS feeds. We'll also provide individual and group aggregation inter- and intra-System, thereby creating a knowledge exchange system of unparalleled potential for communication. And that's just for starters.

Side note of personal opinion: the new Illinois Library Systems home page should be a blog with an RSS feed!

Conversational education

Conversational education 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
I find myself, from time to time, in discussion regarding topics on which I have a lack of depth, of experience; economics, business, law and the like; this is one of the most effective ways to learn that I've found. Recently, though, I've started noticing that some communities don't accept this as a valid method of learning.

Education wasted

Education wasted 08/06/2004 03:26 PM
Express Computer India Aug 6 2004 6:51PM GMT

An Education in Antialiasing

An Education in Antialiasing 03/20/2003 08:33 AM

John Gruber writes about antiali asing again. It's an interesting read.

Environmental Education Exchange

Environmental Education Exchange 06/06/2004 06:40 AM
Environmental Education Exchange
http://www.eeexchange.org/

A Non-for-profit organization providing programs and services for the advancement of environmental literacy in the Unuted States and mexico. Since 1991, the Environmental Education Exchange has developed a diversity of environmental education programs and materials. The varied topics and themes have included water conservation, recycling and waste reduction, biodiversity, endangered species, land use issues, commercialism and the environment, air quality, Sonoran Desert ecology, solar energy, mining and minerals, science literacy, special multicultural/border programs, and more. The majority of resulting programs and materials are available free to educators or other intended audiences. Because the Exchange specializes in program design (and is not primarily a program provider), these products generally are distributed or presented by partner agencies and organizations for which they were developed. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide.

Standards-Based Education

Standards-Based Education 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
In a former coal town on the western Canadian coast, nestled in a protected harbour which makes the surrounding area a boater's paradise, inaccessible from mainland North America save for an hour and a half ferry ride, I received one...

IT 'Marks Education Watershed'

IT 'Marks Education Watershed' 05/13/2004 03:46 AM
New mass-market entertainment offerings and innovative computer applications, such as Apple's iMovie continue to change the way kids are taught, and also the way today's children are. By Macworld UK (via MyAppleMenu)

BBC turns on Microsoft for education

BBC turns on Microsoft for education 11/04/2003 06:30 AM
Infomatics Nov 4 2003 5:24AM ET

Apple Education Turnaround?

Apple Education Turnaround? 11/05/2003 12:46 AM
Businessweek has a detailed article which covers Apple's steps and mis-steps in the educational market over the past few years. While Apple's most ...

Participatory Journalism and Education

Participatory Journalism and Education 08/03/2004 09:13 AM
I'm in Toronto for today's Exploring Fusion Power of Public and Participatory Journalism conference, speaking about the tools of tomorrow's grassroots journalism and how folks in the business can get started. I'm glad to see that quite a few educators are part of this gathering. Their presence makes sense, given that tomorrow is the start of the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. My guess is that the students are, in many cases, way ahead of the teachers when it comes to understanding the tools and how to use them. (Cross-posted to We the Media.)

Education remains key says Blair

Education remains key says Blair 04/10/2005 07:24 AM
Tony Blair promises to put education at the heart of Labour's manifesto as Alan Milburn says plans will be "radical".

Red Hat unveils discounts for education

Red Hat unveils discounts for education 12/04/2003 04:55 AM
ZDNet UK Dec 4 2003 3:53AM ET

More resign over education cuts

More resign over education cuts 03/23/2005 12:26 PM
The Western Education and Library Board votes narrowly to approve budget cuts of Ł5.7m.

Excelling in For-Profit Education

Excelling in For-Profit Education 06/01/2004 10:46 AM
The K-12 sector hasn't done as well as the adult educators, but Plato Learning is out to change that.

the cynicism of higher education

the cynicism of higher education 05/28/2004 12:43 PM
An architect, falling apart. A disparate status of the modern architect.

Microsoft Gives S. Korean Education
$8.7M

Microsoft Gives S. Korean Education
$8.7M 07/06/2004 11:27 AM
AP via ABCNEWS.com Jul 6 2004 3:39PM GMT

An iTunes Model for Education

An iTunes Model for Education 09/18/2004 05:56 AM
An iTunes Model for Education
http://www.syllabus.com/news_article.asp?id=9925&typeid=155
Matthew Pittinsky, chairman and co-founder of Blackboard Inc., thinks that e-learning should mean much more than just putting courses online. It should mean the creation of a true networked learning environment that allows students, teachers and researchers to access any learning resource anytime, anyplace -- whether that resource is a learning object, another educator or student, or a scholarly database or application. Pittinsky says, "Increasingly, providers of commercial digital content fear 'Napsterization' -- widespread copying and re-distribution of digital content -- and the industry recognizes that publishers need an adequate, affordable digital rights management (DRM) solution to maintain effective business models in the face of disintermediation. However, any kind of DRM solution, particularly as applied to educational content, must also be easy to use for both teachers and students and not create new barriers to incorporating educational content into online teaching and learning. Perhaps what we need is an Apple iTunes for digitized educational content -- a consumer-friendly approach that encourages access to a wide range of content for the end user, but, through effective application of DRM, does so in a way that preserves a business model for the commercial content providers."
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