Improving Highschool Science Education (12)
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As I read this fascinating NYTimes piece on a Florida teacher covering evolution, I was reminded of an interesting email exchange I had recently with Kevin Padian, a UC Berkeley professor in the Dept of Integrative Biology, and curator of the UC Museum of Paleontology. He was at Science Foo Camp, and afterward wrote in email: My area is evolution, the most misunderstood concept in all of science. Two websites that help the public with ...
TSA declares war on large breasts (36)
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A large-breasted woman flying from Oakland to Boston was accosted by the TSA when the underwire in her bra set off the magnetometer. She was given a choice: allow her breasts to be fondled or give up on flying. Instead, she raised a stink: Kates asked to see a supervisor and then the supervisor's supervisor. He told her that underwire bras were the leading item that set off the metal detectors, Kates said. If that's ...
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Trey said:
Where can I apply for this job?
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Kajivar said:
. . . I am so testing this next time I fly. >.<
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Clay said:
I suppose that there's a huge disincentive for TSA agents to figure out that they could just ask her to remove the bra and go through the detector again... Most notably that this precludes getting to fondle large-breasted women.Good for her for not putting up with this crap.
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Dan said:
dang...
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Maurice said:
The government scores another victory in the war against terror. But clearly, this was a necessary case, aren't they called 'bazookas'? They could explode!!!!
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Sam said:
Sorry ladies, this is pretty stupid. I hope you can make it through TSA without issues next time you fly.
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Wolfger said:
a fringe benefit to working for the TSA? What's that T really stand for again?
Mother Jones interactive military presence map (27)
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Mother Jones launched an interactive map that shows US military presence around the world from 1950 to 2007. It's based on worldwide troop data from the Pentagon. From Mother Jones: These numbers are often fuzzy: Some deployments are classified, others are temporary, and just because the Defense Department claims 30 US troops in Indonesia last year doesn't mean 1,500 didn't pass through on training missions. Even so, the map, and the associated research, should give ...
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Chuck Lawson said:
Cool little chart. Hey, we've only got to get 9 more to have the whole set - Burkina Faso for teh win!
Let’s Just Scare the #$%& Out of Them, Ok? (6)
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Some stories are so bizarre that you have to wonder if they’re true, but this one (via Ewan’s Delicious bookmarks) about a policeman in Cheyenne, Wyoming who was brought in to “teach” kids about MySpace is beyond the pale: “Officer Gay chose it as an opportunity to take Shaylah’s pictures and her MySpace and use it as an example of what not to do, but then just really publicly humiliate her and mocked her,” said ...
Google Docs in Elementary Schools (2)
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Without question, this is a fantastic learning experience.Nevertheless, I'm wondering what to do about this (found here):Is this a case of don't ask, don't tell - or is there really a legitimate way to allow our elementary students to use Google Docs? As an advocate for using this kind of activity in classrooms across my district, I'm hoping we can all be legit'.Image Source: Brian CrosbyTechnorati Tags: googledocs skype elementary education technology
Are images of the early Mickey Mouse still copyrighted? (13)
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The LA Times's Joseph Menn has a great, well-researched feature article on the history of the copyright for the image of Mickey Mouse as portrayed in the earliest Disney cartoons -- and the theory that Disney made mistakes early on with its copyright registration, placing images of that specific Mickey (not the Mickey we know today) in the public domain. Prominent legal scholars like Peter Jaszi agree, but who will shell out the millions in ...
Zoho Brings It All Together With Zoho Share (26)
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Zoho is pulling together its three main Webtop productivity products (Zoho Write, Zoho Sheet, Zoho Show) into a central destination: Zoho Share. Just as Microsoft bundles its corresponding desktop products into its Office suite, bundling makes sense on the Web as well. Zoho already does this with Zoho Apps, as does Google which has long bundled its Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation apps into Google Docs. With Zoho Share, Zoho does take things a ...
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JuneM said:
Could this work with your Google shares for the ultimate info share leverage?
Miniature cattle - family pets that provide milk (42)
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The Times Online reports on the Dexter cattle breed, “the world’s most efficient, cutest and tastiest cows." For between £200 and £2,000, people can buy a cow that stands no taller than a large German shepherd dog, gives 16 pints of milk a day that can be drunk unpasteurised, keeps the grass “mown” and will be a family pet for years before ending up in the freezer. The Dexter, a mountain breed from Ireland, is ...
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Wesley said:
Now I know how I can have my ranch in an apartment.
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Richard Smith said:
My lawnmower is broken (dropped it off this morning), but now I am thinking... why not just get a cow?
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Huw said:
Now, THIS is way better than a cat.
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Joshua said:
the city probably wouldn't look kindly on this, but I wouldn't mind help with the lawn, and the kids do drink a lot of milk...
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Liz said:
Hot diggity, this is my next pet!
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Earl E Morningwood said:
Cows the size of German shepards now if they could be used to connect to the Internet. ....
USC football team suffering with jock itch outbreak - Orlando Sentinel (1)
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USC football team suffering with jock itch outbreakOrlando Sentinel, FL - 4 hours agoI have to admit this has absolutely nothing to do with the UCF football program or Conference USA, but it's still pretty funny. ...
Errol Morris on "Photography as a Weapon" (37)
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Documentary film maker Errol Morris has a fascinating piece in the New York Times about "Photography as a Weapon." In it, he interviews Hany Farid, a Dartmouth professor and expert on digital photographic fraud. Errol Morris: [D]octored photographs are the least of our worries. If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don’t need Photoshop. You don’t need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don’t need ...
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bmcfee said:
I ate at IHOP this morning, and let me tell you, it isn't that far off from chemical munitions.
Get In Shape With Little or No Equipment [Fitness] (62)
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Many people are under the impression improved health and fitness requires a costly gym membership or home exercise equipment. The consummate minimalist in all endeavors including fitness, Leo of the blog Zen Habits has put together a list of exercises that are heavy on results but light on equipment. It takes no equipment to get a great workout and get in shape, and with one or two pieces of simple equipment, you can turn that ...
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Chadd said:
Today I realized how out of shape I am...just 4 months to the 30th birthday...ShovelGlove? Sounds silly
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Mark said:
Somebody do all of this for me, please.
Tom's Hardware says Apple and PC prices are equivalent (45)
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Desktops, Hardware, Apple, Macbook Pro, Mac ProI love Tom's Hardware -- they're traditionally a PC site (and being a gamer, I've built and run my share of PCs), but like most PC guys, they aren't afraid to lay out the specs and draw direct conclusions from there. And that's exactly what they've done with a very Mac misconception: that Apple computers traditionally cost more than the average PC.To the average ...
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Geoff said:
It's about time people finally realized this. I'm so sick of the "Macs are just soooo expensive" garbage. Compare features people, not just a couple of stats.
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ctomer said:
Intersting PC/Mac cost comparison.
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Adam Morris said:
Not sure what it will take for people to realize Mac/PC prices are now negligible.
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Casey said:
Wow, much needed proof.
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Ben said:
Sorry to the folks linking to eWeek's Mac costs twice as much as PCs article yesterday but I'm more inclined to believe the TH guys.
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Leon said:
was considering building a hackintosh, but now i'm sure i'm just gonna stick with a macbook pro.
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WickeD said:
Indeed TH is traditionally a PC site but I wouldn't take this too seriously. The fact is Macs are more expensive if you compare the PC and the Mac in store. What you don't know is that buying a Mac gets you some of the coolest software/os ever. If you don't care - buy a PC.
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Mark said:
Been saying this for awhile....
15th Anniversary: Behind Wired's Story Behind the Microsoft Antitrust Case (1)
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When John Heilemann began working on a book about Silicon Valley in 1998, he discovered that he was hitting up many of the same sources as a group of lawyers from the Department of Justice. The DOJ, of course, was building its antitrust case against Microsoft, and Heilemann wanted in: "I started calling around and got the assistant attorney general to let me inside a lot of the case — as long as I didn't ...
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Mark said:
Best magazine article I ever read. I still have it and reference it in conversations all the time.
Egnyte 1.5, cross-platform file collaboration (6)
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Filed under: Enterprise, Internet ToolsEgnyte, another entry in the list of "cloud storage" applications, has updated to version 1.5 with some valuable new features. Geared toward organizations and businesses needing centralized document storage, it provides a cross-platform solution for uploading, storing, sharing and collaborating on files. The latest version of Egnyte features: Shared and private folders File versioning A tagging system for non-hierarchical file organization Readily-available previews of compatible image formats Folder export with zip ...
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BillDeys said:
Nice! Looks like a good option for some.
Start Data Plumbing With Yahoo Pipes - Webmonkey (11)
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Yahoo Pipes is an online solution to manipulating data sources without having to resort to coding. Want to create a mashup of our Webmonkey RSS feed and remove any articles about "Google?" Pipes can do it and deliver it in a data source you can import into an application or your latest programming project.
Is My Head (and My Life) in the Clouds? (4)
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Lately, in order to make a point about how the way we use the Web is changing, I’ve been saying in my presentations something along the likes of “you know, if you took this computer (pointing to my still somewhat shiny MacBookPro) and threw it in the river, it really wouldn’t mess up my life much. There’s almost nothing on here of any importance that isn’t out there on the Web somewhere.” I talk about ...
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Mark said:
Feels good to be on top of something for once...
More than 1 percent of US adults are in jail or prison (24)
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...for the first time ever in our nation's history. That most interesting fact, cited in the lasest issue of an American prison industry trade magazine. Snip: Quoting the recent report by the Pew Center on the States’ Public Safety Performance Project, Lamkey noted that for the first time in history more than 1 percent of adults in the United States — one in 99.1 persons is held in jail or prison. Ned Sublette, on whose ...
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Mark said:
This is shameful. Locking people up - by and large - does not prevent future crime. That is one of those things that does not sound good on TV...so we keep locking people away.
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Ray said:
Why am I not surprised at this!
Forlorn bananas of London (10)
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The London Bananas Blog features page after page (after page after page!) of photos of forlorn banana peels on the streets and pavements of London. Here's my contribution to the effort. London Bananas (Thanks, Look For the Woman!)
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