too many topics,

    too little time.

My Liberal Identity:

found via Library Tavern

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Serendipity 2.0: Missing Third Place of Learning

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this reminds me of my archives paper.. drifting and learning in archives. well at least the title does. it takes some time to pick up speed, but then the presentation gets pretty interesting.

Animal Abuse: Japan’s Hello Kitty Cat Humiliation System - Gizmodo:
Cat Humiliation System

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handy for all your cat humiliation needs.

Business Infographics - Diagrams - Illustrations - Portfolio.com:
What Excessive Pay Package?

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is it worth it?

BookChaser.net - search engine for book information including books, authors and publishers:
Search book information from book databases and social networks

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it isn’t particularly inclusive, but it is a new book search engine.

Bergman shot some amazing films including one of the canonical portrayals of a professor, the wonderfully existentialist, “Wild Strawberries”.

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Welcome to ccLearn —
ccLearn:
ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons which is dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning and open educational resources (OER). Our mission is to minimize barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials — legal barriers, technical barriers, and social barriers.

With legal barriers, we advocate for licensing of educational materials under interoperable terms, such as those provided by Creative Commons licenses, that allow unhampered modification, remixing, and redistribution. We also educate teachers, learners, and policy makers about copyright and fair-use issues pertaining to education.
With technical barriers, we promote interoperability standards and tools to facilitate remixing and reuse.
With social barriers, we encourage teachers and learners to re-use educational materials available on the Web, and to build on each other’s contributions.

ccLearn is launching over the summer of 2007 with generous support from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, working closely with members of the Foundation’s Open Educational Resources Program. This is an international project, and we will be working with open educational sites and resources from around the world.

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They hired a gentleman from Duke to be the executive director. I interviewed for that position.

Focuss.eu:
“Focuss.eu provides a high quality search engine for practitioners, researchers and students in the area of global development studies.

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looks like a good tool.

These are the blogs that I had left in my blogroll from nyc. I have some foodblogs from nyc too, but they’ve been merged into my food blogs. In any case, these are great blogs and I appreciated reading them for the information they provided about NYC, Astoria, LIC, and related matters.

Joey in Astoria
callalillie
New York Hack
Misguided Misadventures In NYC
What I absolutely love love love
Captain’s Log
The Haps in the ‘Hood-Astoria NYC
Long Island City - LICNYC
Bunniblog

Thanks all, Now i need to find great chicago and west loop blogs to read:)

The Compass Point: Tom Peters - Educate for a creative society:
He’s not as funny or expansive as Ken Robinson but here is business guru Tom Peters on a rant about the lack of creativity in schools

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a nice video… it highlights one of my current concerns.

Patrick Tillman Was Murdered?:
But it comes from the AP:

Army medical examiners were suspicious about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Pat Tillman’s forehead and tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player’s death amounted to a crime, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

“The medical evidence did not match up with the, with the scenario as described,” a doctor who examined Tillman’s body after he was killed on the battlefield in Afghanistan in 2004 told investigators.

The doctors - whose names were blacked out - said that the bullet holes were so close together that it appeared the Army Ranger was cut down by an M-16 fired from a mere 10 yards or so away.
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umm, if this is a government cover-up … it is hugely problematic, but not more problematic than the reason pat tillman was in afghanistan to begin with… that the army and the office of the president would seek to cover this up is intolerable. how can the army trust them anymore, how can we?

this has more of the findings of the report.

System Administrator Appreciation Day:
July 27th, 2007 (Last Friday Of July)
8th Annual
System Administrator Appreciation Day

If you can read this, thank your sysadmin

Newsflash: Time May Not Exist | Physics & Math | DISCOVER Magazine
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The possibility that time may not exist is known among physicists as the “problem of time.” It may be the biggest, but it is far from the only temporal conundrum. Vying for second place is this strange fact: The laws of physics don’t explain why time always points to the future. All the laws—whether Newton’s, Einstein’s, or the quirky quantum rules—would work equally well if time ran backward. As far as we can tell, though, time is a one-way process; it never reverses, even though no laws restrict it.

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well, that makes some sense to me.

Introduction - Moving Image Education:
These pages will give you the confidence to go out and make films with young people in schools or community groups. A kind of “how to” guide brought together by a number of filmmaking experts who also work extensively in education.

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this could be handy for those interested in teaching filmmaking.