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Saturday, May 7, 2005

Author:   Doc Searls  
Posted: 5/7/2005; 2:08:46 PM
Topic: Saturday, May 7, 2005
Msg #: 5652 (top msg in thread)
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Tracking Helios 
 I just uploaded a buttload of sunrise and sunset shots I found on a hard drive. Couldn't decide which were best, so I posted them all.
 
WhyQ? 
 Interesting back and forth about IQ at Dustbury.
 Gotta say I relish my newfound role as a scourge of IQ tests. (For more, see my comments at that link.)
 
Flag this 
 A belated high ten to the EFF and Public Knowledge for their circuit court victory over the FCC.
 
Even though I didn't know that's what it was called 
 Geek News Central likes my podcatcher idea.
 
Classroom without walls 
 Hoots' Syllabus to study Doc. I dig this from Hoots' brief bio:
 A career in food service had me working while others enjoyed a social life, but I managed over a thousand subordinates during my years in management, and dealt with the public for thirty-plus years.
 Now, you'd think if anyone has been in a position to see the fat parts of bell curves at work, it would be Hoots. Hey, I've done food service work myself, and lemme tell ya, if you're looking for work that will make you cynical about your fellow man...
 Yet Hoot buys the case, put forward by John Taylor Gatto and seconded by myself, that most kids are born smart, genius is common, and the bell curve is a crock.
 More good curricular fodder from James Morrison and Kathy Sierra, who says Learning is not a Push Mechanism.
 
Y'all come blog now 
 Follwing Blog Nashville, going on now, live.
 
Cold turkey for Wi-Fi crackheads 
 Don Marti in linux-elitists:
 ...how many people pay attention at conferences any more anyway? I'm thinking about submitting "Live Demo of a Microwave Oven Modified To Run With The Door Off: The Conference Talk That You Wi-Fi Addicts Will Actually Pay Attention To".
 That was in response to Scientific Conference Falls for Gibberish, in which two MIT graduate students not only wrote their own BuzzPhraser for generating academish jargeury, but got its output accepted as a legitimate paper.
 
And front 
 Michael O'Connor Clarke (he of three names, the most Irish sandwiched in the middle, like the former Jason [McCabe] Calacanis), is back.
 
Xtreme Xcommunication 
 I didn't know Baptists performed excommunications. How do they do that? By drying people off? By spending the saved? Not clear, but still fun to think about.
 USA Today has a longer story.
 Hmm... Wouldn't it be cool for Dubya to get this preach on the horn and tell him one Landover Baptist is enough?
 
Simple division 
 Glad to see I'm on the good side of Seth's Digital Divide. Quotage:
 Does it surprise you that more than half of the hundreds of thousands of Boing Boing readers use Firefox? That's about five times the number you'd expect. It turns out that a lot of these tech-friendly behaviors come in bunches. Someone who has a few of these behaviors is likely to have most of them. (and no, this is by no means a complete list. I'm sure the blog community will find twenty others and post them in a day or two!)
 So what? Why should you care if a bunch of nerds are learning a lot of cool new stuff?




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