A Bronx teacher who repeatedly flunked his state certification exam paid a formerly homeless man with a developmental disorder $2 to take the test for him, authorities said yesterday.
Sigh.
Archive for March, 2005
A long time ago, when I was living under the influence of vastly different institutions than I do now, I planned on growing up to be a molecular biologist. I remember my foray into the world of science fondly (and with a certain amount of healthy nostalgia), so I read this article in Wired with […]
Anyone seen this new feature at Amazon: SIPs or Statistically Improbably Phrases? I found out about this phenomenon through a posting this morning at Rageboy.
Basically Amazon is using its “Search Inside the Book” feature to find phrases that occur rarely, and then listing them on the page for the books in which they occur. (You […]
This article at the NYT gave me a chuckle. I love all the passive-aggressive techniques people identified for dealing with our modern world. I for one am going to start sending back blank magazine subscription cards–just to force the publishers to pay the postage prices.
Lately RSS has been on my mind a lot. I’m excited about the possibilites it opens up to us with regard to syndication and consumption of Web content–and I think there is still a lot of unchartered territory out there. In particular, I’m spending a lot of time thinking about how RSS could […]
Thanks to Gardner Campbell for passing along this article about Will Wright’s not-yet-named next-generation “Sim experience.”
For those unfamiliar with Wright, he is the creator of the Sim franchise, including SimCity and The Sims. I’m a hopeless addict of these games, particularly The Sims. At my previous job I caught a log of flak […]
This article in the Guardian (which I found via Derek Morrison at Auricle) is an interesting follow-up to my post yeterday.
Apparently, the internet may be a suitable replacement for eight (?!) subject librarians at Bangor University. As ridiculous as I found the proposition that courseware can replace a professor, I guess some folks […]
Thanks to Jerry for pointing out this article about the potential for courseware to eventually “replace” the human professor. (I’m not sure where the original article appeared, but Jerry’s got the full text up at Running with Scissors.)
I gotta say this kind of rhetoric just makes me want to laugh. I think it is […]
I came across this essay by Rober Paterson yesterday, and I’m still making my way through it, but what I’ve read so far is reallly powerful. It’s long, but I highly recommend it.
Hopefully, once I’m done and have had a chance to fully digest this gem, I’ll be able to post my own […]
As a follow-up to a talk we had last week on using RSS at UMW, here’s a little something for my fellow DTLT’ers to consider. . .
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