Teachers' Christmas Gifts Can Be Strange (AP)
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Christmas Gifts for Geeks
Christmas Gifts for Geeks
12/15/2003 11:43 AMscottfi writes "The shopping season is just about over and I'm always
on the lookout for the cool geek gadget to get friends and family (or
myself). What cool ...
Dad Tries to Sell Christmas Gifts on
EBay (AP)
Dad Tries to Sell Christmas Gifts on
EBay (AP)
12/25/2004 04:58 PMAP - The kids were naughty, Dad put the presents on eBay instead of
under the tree — and Mom's been crying ever since. Now, even the
tree's down.
Christmas Gifts, Food, Arrive at ISS
Christmas Gifts, Food, Arrive at ISS
12/27/2004 05:42 PMSci-Tech Today Dec 27 2004 9:05PM GMT
Vodafone plans 10 3G Christmas gifts
Vodafone plans 10 3G Christmas gifts
09/22/2004 02:23 PMinfoSync Sep 22 2004 6:38PM GMT
Computer-Oriented Christmas Gifts
Popular Among US Consumers
Computer-Oriented Christmas Gifts
Popular Among US Consumers
12/21/2003 03:43 AMVOA Dec 21 2003 3:02AM ET
Online casino strikes again, buying
naughty kids' Christmas gifts
Online casino strikes again, buying
naughty kids' Christmas gifts
12/27/2004 04:48 AMCbsnewyork.com - Mon Dec 27, 02:54 am GMT
Online casino strikes again, buying
Pasadena naughty kids' Christmas gifts
Online casino strikes again, buying
Pasadena naughty kids' Christmas gifts
12/28/2004 03:43 AMKhou.com - Mon Dec 27, 05:28 pm GMT
Online casino strikes again, buying
naughty kids' Christmas gifts Doctor at
Mexican public hospital
Online casino strikes again, buying
naughty kids' Christmas gifts Doctor at
Mexican public hospital
12/27/2004 08:38 AMCnews.canoe.ca - Mon Dec 27, 03:26 am GMT
Re: Strange Java Loader (not so strange
- Trojan.ByteVerify)
Re: Strange Java Loader (not so strange
- Trojan.ByteVerify)
12/30/2004 09:51 PMK-OTiK Security (Dec 30 2004)
Gifts I gave, Gifts I got
Gifts I gave, Gifts I got
12/31/2003 10:54 AMThis
holiday edition of Wardriver Wednesday looks at the mobile
technology that was found under my Christmas tree this year—both for
me and from me. Maybe it will give you some ideas on how to spend any
Christmas money you received or gift return cash you acquired.
Like Pixels? Check out
MacDesignMore pay for 'super teachers'
More pay for 'super teachers'
09/20/2004 06:42 PMA new grade of "super teachers" is needed to fill vacancies in
England's most challenging schools, MPs say.
passing up an opportunity to go home for
Christmas, so that his colleague could
spend Christmas with his wife and child
passing up an opportunity to go home for
Christmas, so that his colleague could
spend Christmas with his wife and child
12/21/2003 08:35 AMoffers to stay there .. Home News Tribune .. feel good
story
thnt.com/thnt/story/0,21282,871918,00.html
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More money for 'super teachers'?
More money for 'super teachers'?
09/24/2004 07:43 PMThe BBC's Mike Baker asks whether teachers in difficult schools should
get more money.
Teachers' anger over pay deal
Teachers' anger over pay deal
04/12/2004 01:01 PMTeachers are threatening to disrupt the government's pay deal with
demands for a hike in salaries.
Teachers' job shortage warning
Teachers' job shortage warning
06/30/2004 10:44 PMAfter years of teacher shortages, there are now warnings that primary
teachers are struggling to find jobs.
Kelly set to test teachers' mood
Kelly set to test teachers' mood
03/23/2005 05:11 AMThe education secretary will address teachers, following her recent
frosty reception by a heads' union.
Teachers' Astronaut Training Nears End
Teachers' Astronaut Training Nears End
07/24/2004 01:19 AMAbcnews.go.com - Fri Jul 23, 08:49 am GMT
Computer teachers' appeal to minister
Computer teachers' appeal to minister
06/18/2004 04:08 PMNewIndPress Jun 18 2004 8:40PM GMT
Teachers' union calls for camera phone
ban
Teachers' union calls for camera phone
ban
12/24/2003 06:36 AMvnunet.com Dec 24 2003 6:07AM ET
When Students' Gains Help Teachers'
Bottom Line
When Students' Gains Help Teachers'
Bottom Line
05/08/2004 01:14 PMDenver is the first major city to approve a salary structure that
rewards teachers for the progress of their students.
Teachers' head chides Ruth Kelly
Teachers' head chides Ruth Kelly
03/25/2005 07:06 PMNUT president Hilary Bills says Education Secretary Ruth Kelly is the
wrong person for the job.
NOVA's Origins Web Site Now Offers
Teachers' Guide
NOVA's Origins Web Site Now Offers
Teachers' Guide
09/19/2004 09:44 PMJust added to the Origins web site is a Teachers' Guide with four
lessons targeted to middle and high school students covering
micrometeorites, the characteristics of life, the search for life on
other planets, and facts about Earth's elements. Each lesson has a
program summary, ideas for before and after viewing the series, an
activity setup, science standard connections, student handouts,
activity answers, and a resources list.
Teachers' Domain Adds New Content to
Civil Rights Special Collection
Teachers' Domain Adds New Content to
Civil Rights Special Collection
02/01/2005 08:51 PMTeach the Civil Rights movement through the voices of the people who
were there. The Civil Rights Special Collection on Teachers' Domain
has added over forty new resources to its free digital library of
multimedia resources for classroom and independent study-just in time
for Black History Month.
Public schools no place for teachers'
kids - The Washington Times:
Nation/Politics - September 22, 2004
Public schools no place for teachers'
kids - The Washington Times:
Nation/Politics - September 22, 2004
09/22/2004 02:27 PM"Nationwide, public school teachers are almost twice as likely as
other parents to choose private schools for their own children, the
study by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute
found."
washtimes.com/national/20040922-122847-5968r.htm
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Nothing So Strange
Nothing So Strange
01/07/2004 07:04 PMNothing So Strange is an excellent movie on numerous levels. On one
level, its a straightforward documentary of one group?s?
We all need a little strange sometimes
We all need a little strange sometimes
11/17/2003 07:48 PMLaura’s Blog .. RockerGirl .. Laura
rockergirl.zapto.org
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Micropatron gifts (L@@K L@@K)
Micropatron gifts (L@@K L@@K)
03/14/2005 04:24 PMWell, we're a week and a half into the three-week "fund drive" (if
you're just tuning in, start here)
and it's time for a shout-out to the kind people and companies who
have contributed gifts for some lucky kottke.org micropatrons (contribute $30+ and you
have a chance). If you haven't looked at the
list in awhile, you'll notice some additions.
I chose the gift contributors fairly carefully. With one or two
exceptions, most of the list is comprised of either
friends/acquaintances of mine who are supportive of what I'm doing,
companies that have an interest in blogs and blogging, products I've
used, or people who have gone or are going out on a limb to do
something entreprenurial in their lives (selling photography,
software, soap, books, etc...labors of love and commerce). I have a
special place in my heart for the latter group because they're in a
boat similar to mine and it makes me happy than I can help get the
word out about their projects.
Recent additions to the list:
Solid gold platinum executive class founder gifts:
Again, here's the
detailed list and here's how you become a micropatron for a shot
at one of the above.
Birthday gifts
Birthday gifts
04/09/2004 04:02 PMOn birthdays I like to give a gift. If I had a new beta of NetNewsWire
to post, I would, but it’s not quite there yet. Instead
I’ll just tell you a little about it.
After doing an upgrade just about every month last year, we needed to
take a little longer to do a bigger upgrade, to add a bunch of new
features.
I’m not going to tell you about all the new features today, but
I will talk about two of them. (There are many more... this just
scratches the surface.)
Browsing in place
This is perhaps the most-requested feature, the ability to view pages
directly in NetNewsWire.
Some notes about this feature...
1. NetNewsWire already uses Web Kit (the Safari HTML renderer) to
render item descriptions—in the current version, there is extra
code to prevent browsing-in-place from working. So the first
step in making this work was to remove code, which is not
what you’d normally expect when adding a new feature.
2. NetNewsWire, like many newsreaders, is a hybrid of email/Usenet
apps and browsers. This feature is at the very intersection of these
two types of applications, which makes it quite a user interface
challenge.
3. Even though this feature is requested so often, and even though
it’s demonstrably useful, a number of NetNewsWire testers were
against having it appear at all. They’re in the camp that says,
“Each app should do just one thing and do it well.”
I’m in the same camp, by the way—the disagreement comes in
when you try to define what “just one thing” is. In the
case of newsreaders, it’s increasingly obvious that browsing is
part of that “one thing” that a newsreader does. But, just
so you know, this feature is an option.
Weblog editor overhaul
The new weblog editor is a 99% re-do. The user interface has been
completely redesigned, and most of the under-the-hood code has been
rewritten.
There are several goals:
1. Make the weblog editor easier to use and, at the same time, more
powerful, with a more intuitive and more aesthetic interface.
2. Fix bugs (things like categories not always showing up).
3. Support more of the special features of various weblog systems
(things like image uploading, support for Movable Type and TypePad
keywords, etc.).
4. Make the text editor itself more powerful.
5. Add some other new features which I’m going to leave as a
surprise for now.
Anyway...
There are lots of other
new features to talk about...
But for now I’m just going to get back to work.
Last-Minute Gifts for Dad
Last-Minute Gifts for Dad
06/16/2004 10:02 AMIt's never too late to buy a present when you have the Internet at the
ready.
"Shopping & Gifts"
"Shopping & Gifts"
06/03/2004 05:04 AMAnd speaking of gifts
And speaking of gifts
12/19/2004 03:40 PMSo the most significant change in my technology-related life in the
last year is the elimination of spam without a white-list technology.
I used to use Mailblocks for my main account, but Marc Perkel
convinced me to try his own Bayesian spam filter.
I'm on record saying such systems could never work. I was wrong.
Marc's system is amazing. I get endless email. His system filters the
mail into three boxes -- my inbox, a low probability box, and a high
probability box. I have never found a mistake in the high probability
box, so I no longer look at it. I very rarely find a mistake in the
low probability box, so I scan it about once a week (maybe 1% error).
And it is almost fun to get an error in my inbox, reminding me that
there still is this problem of spam out there.
Anyway, I'm giving Marc's spam filter service to my family for
Christmas (no, they don't read my blog). And I'd recommend it to
anyone else out there looking for a gift (note, I don't have any
financial interest in this). As Marc described to me:
I
sell it as a service. I can do it several ways. If someone wants a
single email address I can give them a something@marxmail.net account.
$25/year. Or I can host their email domain for $95/year. Or I can be a
front end spam filter where I clean it and pass it on to their
existing email server $75/year.
You can reach him for at this
MarxMail address.
Affordable Gifts
Affordable Gifts
12/17/2004 06:32 PMIn a round-up of affordable holiday gifts, Julio Ojeda-Zapata writes
in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, “The iTunes cards, in $15 and $25
denominations, are good for the purchase and download of individual
tracks. Get the cards at local Apple retail stores and at Target, Best
Buy, Circuit City and CompUSA stores, or snag them online at
store.apple.com or Amazon.com. The online Apple store offers paper or
electronic gift certificates good for iTunes purchases, too.”
[Dec 14]
the law + sex = strange bedfellows
the law + sex = strange bedfellows
07/21/2004 04:40 PM
How does same sex marriage differ from heterosexual marriage?
It
may really be until death do us part. or
Awkward
things happen
when legislative debate trails judicial necessity.
Strange Attractores
Strange Attractores
09/06/2004 12:12 AM
Strange
Attractors ~ 12 independent animators from Australia have set up a
showcase of animated films. (via
Cartoon Brew)
Omnicare's Strange Buy
Omnicare's Strange Buy
01/04/2005 01:11 PMOmnicare's expansion of its CRO unit seems unwise given its effort to
acquire a major rival.
"Strange
graphic:"
"Strange
graphic:"
05/12/2004 01:25 AMStrange names are okay
Strange names are okay
05/01/2004 03:23 AM
I got an email from a friend asking if "RSS" is really the best
name for the activity of creating and reading XML-based news feeds. I
think it is, because if there was only going to be one name for the
activity, RSS would have to be it. I can prove it. Suppose you call it
XYZ and convince some people to call it that. Then some people will
call it RSS and other people will call it XYZ. Unless you can convince
everyone to change, which is a very hard thing to do, you're going to
have two names for one thing, which is more than twice as confusing as
one name.
An example. I use a GSM phone in Europe. I even met the people
who designed it. I have absolutely no idea what it stands for and I
don't need or want to know.
Another example. In Germany the high speed trains are called
ICE. When I got on my first train, the American than I am, I called it
an ice-train. The conductor explained that it's an acronym. I-C-E.
What does it stand for? Inter City Express. This in a country where
the first and only language is German. An English acronym is the name
of their high speed rail system, one that they are justifiably proud
of.
All around us are things which have incomprehensible names.
Eventually that fades into the background and they become new words in
our common vocabulary, familiar and happy. Like TV. What is that short
for? Tele Vision. What the hell does that mean?
One more. Read the title of this section. Okay. Now think about
that for a minute. It's a fairly universal cross-language word for
"got it." We all say okay all the
time. It's an acronym, right? What is it an acronym for? I bet
you'll be surprised.
new strange worm
new strange worm
04/13/2004 12:43 AMAlex Gen (Apr 12 2004)
Strange alliance
Strange alliance
07/09/2004 08:34 AMWhy is Rupert Murdoch's media empire publishing Ralph Nader's latest
tome?
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