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Kids Have a ‘Doggone’ Good Time with
Launch of RAGGS Kids Club Band Video
Series

Kids Have a ‘Doggone’ Good Time with
Launch of RAGGS Kids Club Band Video
Series 08/10/2004 03:43 AM
[PRWEB Aug 10, 2004]

Keeping Your Kids Truly Safe and Secure
on the Internet Now Just Became as Easy
as “Smart Zone Kids” Browser Available
Through Wholesale-Telecom.

Keeping Your Kids Truly Safe and Secure
on the Internet Now Just Became as Easy
as “Smart Zone Kids” Browser Available
Through Wholesale-Telecom. 12/22/2004 01:28 AM
Wholesale-Telecom is now offering an Internet browser that protects children and teenagers from online pedophiles and inappropriate content The browser is totally interactive for parents to customize to their preference. [PRWEB Dec 10, 2004]

Keeping Your Kids Truly Safe and Secure
on the Internet Now Just Became as Easy
as "Smart Zone Kids" Browser Available
Through Wholesale-Telecom

Keeping Your Kids Truly Safe and Secure
on the Internet Now Just Became as Easy
as "Smart Zone Kids" Browser Available
Through Wholesale-Telecom 12/30/2004 05:15 AM
Wholesale-Telecom is now offering an Internet browser that protects children and teenagers from online pedophiles and inappropriate content The browser is totally interactive for parents to customize to their preference. [PRWEB Dec 30, 2004]

Ithaki 4 KiDs MetaSearch Engine for Kids

Ithaki 4 KiDs MetaSearch Engine for Kids 06/22/2005 02:48 AM


Ithaki 4 KiDs MetaSearch Engine for Kids
http://kids.ithaki.net/

Ithaki 4 KiDs helps you to find the best sites just for kids via searching in real time several search engines for kids like DmozKids, Yahooligans, FactMonster, ArtKIDSRule, AolKIDS, AwesomeLibrary & KidsClick!. Ithaki is a metasearch engine, it finds quickly the best web sites because it searches at once the top search engines and guides for kids, then ranks the results according to an internal ranking to make sure you get the exactly what you're looking for. This will be added to the search engines section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides.

Presents For Bad Kids Head To eBay,
Rather Than Kids

Presents For Bad Kids Head To eBay,
Rather Than Kids 12/27/2004 04:42 AM
Well, normally, people wait until after they've received presents to dump them on eBay. However, one father who felt his three sons were being particularly bad lately decided that to punish them he's putting their presents up for sale on eBay. To be honest, this sounds like a bit of a publicity stunt -- and it seems likely that, now that this is getting attention, that casino that seems to be buying e very random quirky auction item will snap this one up. Update: Whoops. It's apparently already happened. Indeed, the casino in question has d ecided to buy the undelivered presents. This is sort of an update on our story last year about how sellers were increasingly looking to use eBay as a publicity generating tool. It appears that's now being used by buyers to generate publicity, as well.

MP3 Players Aren't Just For Kids; In
Fact They're Barely For Kids

MP3 Players Aren't Just For Kids; In
Fact They're Barely For Kids 12/19/2004 03:47 PM
The common bit of wisdom is that MP3s are a young person's technology. It's the teens and the folks just coming out of college that are the MP3 generation, after all, so they'd be the most likely to own an MP3 player, right? Not at all, apparently. A new study says that 90% of MP3 player owners over 34 years old. While this may have something to do with the high price of many of the best MP3 players, the numbers still don't seem right. It would be interesting to see the methodology behind this study. That's not to say that those over 34 aren't likely to own an MP3 player, but it's hard to believe that 90% of MP3 players go to those 35 and older.

You know, for kids!

You know, for kids! 09/16/2004 01:19 PM
Some of the results from the city of Vancouver's Art Underfoot contest. "The competition invited anyone who lives, works, or goes to school in Vancouver to submit design ideas for new manhole covers..."

RSS for Kids

RSS for Kids 06/30/2004 01:15 AM

More Yahoo! RSS

"We've been busy adding RSS feeds all over Yahoo!

We had previously released Yahooligans ! Joke of the Day.

Today, Ask Earl (a daily question and answer for kids) is available too.

In Education, we now have Word of the Day and SAT Tip of the Day available.

More to come soon!" [Jeff Boulter's Weblog, via Jeremy Zawodny's blog]

Sweet! It may finally be time to give 10-year old Kailee a Bloglines account. I've been toying with giving her one and preloading it with the National Geographic feed, but there wasn't much else to add. Until now....

Not for the Kids

Not for the Kids 06/07/2004 11:54 PM

Harry Potter Movie Reworked with a Downloadable Soundtrack

"Wizard People, Dear Reader is a remix of the first Harry Potter movie. It's a special soundtrack to the movie made by artist Brad Neely that recasts the story and tone of the flick. The idea is to buy the DVD and play the soundtrack (which is a free download) alongside of it.

With Mr. Neely's gravelly narration, the movie's tone shifts into darkly comic, pop-culture-savvy territory. Hagrid, Harry Potter's giant, hairy friend, becomes Hagar, the Horrible, and Harry's fat cousin becomes Roast Beefy. As imagined by Mr. Neely, the three main characters are child alcoholics with a penchant for cognac, the magical ballgame Quidditch takes on homoerotic overtones, and Harry is prone to delivering hyper-dramatic monologues. 'I am a destroyer of worlds,' bellows Mr. Neely at one point, sending laughter reverberating through the warehouse Friday night. 'I am Harry' expletive "Potter!"

Link (via Creative Commons)" [Boing Boing]

The kids are all right...

The kids are all right... 01/28/2004 02:33 PM
...Just a bit under the weather.

Our son got a bad cold last week and gave it to our daughter.  Nothing more serious, according to the doctor.  Since Esther is only one month old, though, anything is a cause for concern. 

So that's my current excuse for the lack of blogging lately.  That, and something more positive -- working hard on the next Supernova, which will be June 24-25 in Santa Clara.  I'm already getting excited, and we're five months away! 

Martha Kids You Not

Martha Kids You Not 08/06/2004 08:07 AM
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia is taking a childish gamble with its newest magazine.

RFID Not Just for Kids

RFID Not Just for Kids 09/16/2004 05:17 AM

Mom With 14 Kids, One on the Way,
Honored (AP)

Mom With 14 Kids, One on the Way,
Honored (AP) 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
AP - With her 14 children in tow and pregnant with her 15th, Michelle Duggar waddled into Arkansas' Capitol on Wednesday to accept the state's Young Mother award.

i bet these two kids hate each other

i bet these two kids hate each other 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
"back in my day, i was the youngest Microsoft MVP around..."

Kids on Piracy

Kids on Piracy 01/07/2004 04:35 PM

In response to Nick Bradbury's post on piracy, Aaron Swartz writes:

Nick has no innate right to have people pay for his software, just as I have no right to ask people to pay for use of my name.

Even if he did, most people who pirate his software probably would never use it anyway, so they aren't costing him any money and they're providing him with free advertising.

And of course it makes sense that lots of people who see some interesting new program available for free from a site they're already at will download it and try it out once, just as more people will read an article I wrote in the New York Times than on my weblog.

And what's this nonsense about warez sites only having shareware stuff and not stuff from Microsoft. In my experience with the biggest, easiest-to-use things, the opposite is true (tons of BigCo software, very little shareware).

And while it's true that EXEs can often do anything (because modern OSes don't have basic security protections like chroot, which has been in UNIX for decades), this is true of all software not just warez.

Yes, piracy probably does take some sales away from Nick, but I doubt it's very many. If Nick wants to sell more software, maybe he should start by not screaming at his potential customers. What's next? Yelling at people who use his software on friends computers? Or at the library?

Aaron then wrote these series of comments in response to Schoolblo g's post that agrees with Nick's view:

Chris is arguing what’s known as the sweat-of-the-brow theory of intellectual monopolies: someone who puts work into something deserves to control how it is used.

Taken to its extreme, this probably results in things you disagree with. (Michael Jackson has put a lot of money and work into his face. Can he charge people who distribute pictures of it? A newspaper reporter puts a lot of work into discovering a story. Can he charge people who repeat it.) And certainly, in the specific case of copyright, if Chris’s world was in place we’d have no libraries or video stores, and all the books at bookstores would be shrink-wrapped or behind glass.

By Nick’s reasoning, everyone who rents a movie from a video store or takes a book out of the library is a pirate, because they cost the author one potential sale (in the US, authors don’t get paid anything for library or video store rentals).

Chris, do you feel authors have a right to keep their book out of libraries? They worked hard on their book, shouldn’t they get to make the terms of use? If you don’t, how do you distinguish libraries from downloads? (It’s true that libraries don’t usually involve copies, but this is a practical distinction — quibbles like that don’t see like they’d interfere with a strong right.)

I spend months researching an important story. Finally, after great lengths, I confirm that Nixon’s team funded Watergate break-in, and I provide a chain of evidence to prove it. You run a rival newspaper and you verify all the evidence with your own eyes. Can you publish the story as well? I put a lot of work into that story, I don’t want you to copy it, even if you give me credit.

The fact that video rental stores are legal while peer-to-peer systems aren’t is an accident of law and technology. The law regulated copying while the computer systems required copies to do everything. If we had built our networks with superfast pnuematic tubes instead of wires, we could whisk CDs across them to share with others without violating the law at all. It’s hard to believe one system could be moral and the other not, simply because of this technological accident.

The fact is that there is no such morality behind copyright. Copyright is a recent invention, which originally only touched commercial publishers (of which there aren’t very many). This idea of their being some moral reason for it is even more recent. You won’t find it in any religion, or any old culture. It’s a silly idea, and it goes against our nature to share and build upon each other’s work.

What’s the moral problem with me downloading Nick’s software when there was no chance of me buying it? I get the software, Nick doesn’t lose any money and possibly gets some free advertising. It seems everyone is better off; how could this be immoral?

Yup.  That's how smart kids of 21st century thinks.  What a shame.

Aside from the lost profit and firmness of the moral ground piracy stands on, piracy undermines the soul of our young.  When you do something others consider bad, you start a ball of self-justification rolling so you can sleep at night.  So what if I burnt a house down?  No one got hurt!

Let this bullshit go on and, before you know it, the only acceptable answer to “Why can't I drive your car when you are not using it?“ will be an Uzi.

Four Kids, an RV, a Dog, and Some Wi-Fi,
Week 2

Four Kids, an RV, a Dog, and Some Wi-Fi,
Week 2 07/13/2004 03:52 PM
Richard and Angela Hoy file their second weekly report on their several thousand mile trip around the US, and the hunt for Wi-Fi: This week finds our intrepid explorers, my friends, in Ohio and Michigan. They tried the city-wide Wi-Fi experiment in Grand Haven, Mich., which worked terrifically for them wherever they tried it. They're on their way to grandmother's house -- no, they're not kidding -- and stopping wherever they can find access en route. The picture at right is priceless: at Panera, the whole family got into the action....

I'm one of the cool kids now

I'm one of the cool kids now 08/18/2004 04:33 PM
Are you?...

Third Culture Kids

Third Culture Kids 08/08/2004 03:27 AM
Singapore is trying to duplicate its IT success in Biotech (billions of dollars in predictive economics, a masterstroke -- or perhaps a mistake -- for the leaders of the Simcity-run island). Good for the huge numbers of foreigners lured with research money and benefits, but what about their kids?

US kids are fattest of all

US kids are fattest of all 01/09/2004 09:56 PM
A study of kids in 14 counties reveals that American kids are the fattest of all.

In the study, headed by Inge Lissau, Ph.D. from Denmark, the researchers tabulated the BMIs of 29,242 children 13 and 15 years of age. The children were from Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Flemish Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Ireland, Israel, Portugal, Slovakia, Sweden, and the United States. The children's BMIs were based on self-reported heights and weights collected from surveys the children answered in school.

Children from the United States were the most likely to be overweight. Among 13-year-old boys in the U.S., 12.6 percent were overweight. Among 13-year-old girls, 10.8 percent were overweight. For U.S. 15 year olds, 13.9 percent of boys were overweight, and 15.1 percent of girls were overweight.

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Convincing Kids To Get Off Their Fat...

Convincing Kids To Get Off Their Fat... 07/29/2004 05:06 PM
Okay, so there are all sorts of stories about the kids these days, sitting still all day playing video games, surfing the internet and staring at the TV, getting ever wider and wider. Since it's becoming clear that suggesting they simply "go outside" isn't going to yank them away from their screens, it looks like more people are trying to come up with ways to use those screens to get those kids to actually get up and move around -- while still keeping the eyes glued to the screen. There are TV shows coming to children's TV stations focused on convincing kids to get up and do stuff. I wonder if, like most exercise shows on TV, those kids will just sit still mocking folks bouncing around on TV? In the video game realm, it's nothing new that developers are working on games that actually require some amount of exercise, but it sounds like many more exercise-ready games are coming to market.

"Han from I Hate the Kids"

"Han from I Hate the Kids" 06/04/2004 08:14 PM

Kids GoGoGo 8.6.3

Kids GoGoGo 8.6.3 07/30/2004 05:25 PM
Parental control for OSX.

New Kids On The Blog

New Kids On The Blog 01/06/2004 08:06 AM
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How-to cartoons for kids

How-to cartoons for kids 04/16/2004 11:50 AM
Howtoons are how-to project cartoons for kids, with a good mix of mischief, smartassery, and science. Link (Thanks, Joe!)

Your Kids Are Bleeding You Dry

Your Kids Are Bleeding You Dry 09/20/2004 02:44 PM
Families shell out a small fortune to send their kids back to school.

From KISS to KIDS

From KISS to KIDS 06/23/2004 05:59 AM
From KISS to KIDS – An ‘anti-simplistic’ Modelling Approach
http://bruce .edmonds.name/kiss2kids/kiss2kids.html

Abstract
A new approach is suggested under the slogan “Keep it Descriptive Stupid” (KIDS) that encapsulates a trend in increasingly descriptive agent-based social simulation. The KIDS approach entails one starts with the simulation model that relates to the target phenomena in the most straight-forward way possible, taking into account the widest possible range of evidence, including anecdotal accounts and expert opinion. Simplification is only applied when and if the model and evidence justify this. This contrasts sharply with the KISS approach where one starts with the simplest possible model and only moves to a more complex one if forced to. An example multi-agent simulation of domestic water demand and social influence is described.

RFID Not Just for Kids

RFID Not Just for Kids 09/16/2004 05:16 AM
Slashdot Sep 16 2004 9:32AM GMT

Pop art food for kids

Pop art food for kids 03/14/2003 01:08 PM
New York Times article about brightly colored, toy-like, packaged dinners for kids.

"The new products are a mix of adult-pleasing convenience and child-pleasing shock value ... a hamburger meal with a patty shaped like a house and cookies that look like bricks... a line of jellies for dinner rolls in flavors like watermelon, sour apple and banana... hot pink and electric blue margarine... neon-colored salad dressings with names like Purple Pizzazzz and Outrageous Orange.... blue fries, which can be dipped in the purple, orange, pink and teal ketchups..." Li nk Discuss (Thanks, Scott!)

Spidey on PC just for the kids

Spidey on PC just for the kids 06/13/2004 05:48 AM
Winnipeg Sun Jun 13 2004 10:12AM GMT

iMovie For Kids

iMovie For Kids 03/08/2004 11:24 PM
"The kids are loving them!" By Nathan Torkington (O'Reilly Network via MyAppleMenu)

"missing kids rss"

"missing kids rss" 05/12/2004 04:03 AM

IM: Not Just for Kids Anymore

IM: Not Just for Kids Anymore 09/02/2004 11:38 AM
Adults are picking up instant messaging in record numbers, with 50% of those over 35 using various systems. This study was funded by AOL, which has a major stake in the instant messaging market through its popular AIM software. But most people who use IM in the workplace are still using free and unsecured systems, despite the availability of secure versions in enterprise software and products like IM Secure.

Kids in the Hall

Kids in the Hall 03/13/2003 10:17 AM
In last week's Entertainment Weekly (the one with "Big Ben" on the cover), there's a short interview with the Kids...

Kids online

Kids online 06/17/2005 04:53 PM

Today, I set up a new computer for the kids. I took the new 2.8Ghz Celeron box that had been serving as my Linux file-server and swapped it with the old 450Mhz P3 box that the kids were using. I was a little surprised how easy it was to make the switch. I just took the hard-drive out of the Celeron and put it in the P3 and Linux came right back up.

I set up Windows XP Home on the Celeron box and installed the important software (Warcraft and SimCity 3000) for the kids. I would have preferred something other than Windows, but we have quite an investment in games and educational software for Windows.

I also added a wireless adapter. So now, for the first time, the kids computer is on-line. I didn't setup any parental controls or filtering software and I'm not really sure what to do about "internet safety." The boys are 7 and 8 and I'm pretty sure they aren't going to go looking for trouble quite yet, but I am a little worried that Google will send them to a site of ill-repute or some horrible porn-spam message will land in their inbox. If you've got kids around that age on-line, I'd love to hear what you do to protect them from porn-spam and other internet threats.

Great gift for the kids!

Great gift for the kids! 01/05/2005 06:52 PM
Teddyport "Its discreet, its funky and now none of your friends will ever know you have a problem." Well, as long as they aren't observant enough to notice that you're ripping the head off of a stuffed bear and trying to drink from its neck...

RIAA: Control your P2P kids!

RIAA: Control your P2P kids! 05/05/2004 05:04 PM
The RIAA is sending out advisories to press-contacts at various media outlets about their "Are Your Kids Breaking the Law When They Log On?" campaign, which aims to scare parents into spanking their kids for file-sharing, and comes across as red-scare-era propaganda. It's funny: Hollywood fought the Red Scare and McCarthyism tooth and nail, but today, they're more than happy to appropriate its rhetoric and tactics.

*UNDERSTAND THEIR GENERATION OF THINKING. "*Everyone is doing it" or "rock stars and movie stars make too much money anyhow" or "the corporate entertainment scene is corrupt" is* *likely to be what you'll hear.* * You'll need to arm yourself with the counterarguments to these. Explain that most artists are not super wealthy and that they are leaving themselves open to doing something that is ethically wrong, could damage their computer and have legal consequences. *SET A GOOD EXAMPLE*. If you are currently using a peer-to-peer network to obtain digital music and movies, understand that your children will follow your lead. * *Let them see you buying your entertainment legally and they'll follow suit.

Link (Thanks, Annalee!)

Kids and Brokerage Accounts

Kids and Brokerage Accounts 06/04/2004 03:25 PM
It's never too early to begin investing for your kids.

Sell College to Your Kids

Sell College to Your Kids 04/29/2004 03:00 PM
It's good for them to buy into the idea and to want to attend.

Danes tag kids with Bluetooth

Danes tag kids with Bluetooth 04/16/2004 10:20 AM
Tivoli Gardens: child friendly
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