Huffduffer – Makes Your Own Podcast Feed
31-Dec-09
So of course, I’ve signed up. What does it do? It makes your very own personal podcast feed.
Under the visionary leadership of its President and CEO, Geoffrey Canada, HCZ continues to offer innovative, efficiently run programs that are aimed at doing nothing less than breaking the cycle of generational poverty for the thousands of children and families it serves.
via History.
Not a new post, but Gardner gets this stuff.
ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Analyzing the Stylistic Choices of Political Cartoonists.
Quote of the Day
29-Dec-09
And yes, that means I do qualify for food stamps while working a full-time job as a professor!
Material Removed
26-Dec-09
Material quoted and linked here was removed at the request of the original author, who threatened to contact the university where I work. A polite request would have done the trick. Nonetheless, I am embarrassed by any grievance caused to the original author. This is the first such complaint that has been made in this space and I am somewhat pleased that the author of the material that was posted here is one of the three or four people that has read this blog.
Cone of Shame.
When the towers collapsed, many of us did not want to be perceived as unpatriotic. The fury and faith of Fox News patriots weakened us. So we silenced our beliefs that the military industrial complex is the most shameful element of the American experiment.
Our silence resulted in global scorn. It resulted in the expansion of U.S. military bases into over 150 countries, the equivalent of Rome at its imperial height. Our silence resulted in mistaking cruelty for strength. Do the 5 million orphans in Iraq view American troops as liberators?
As the number of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq with traumatic brain injuries exceeds 360 thousand, we are expanding operations in Afghanistan. We best remember that failure to respect the Pashtun people, the ethnic majority in Afghanistan, crushed Russia’s army and lead to their collapse. Russia did not respect the Pashtun concept of Badal–revenge or justice. Imbedded in the practice of Pashtunwali, Badal mandates that an insult can only be righted by violence. As a consequence, Afghanistan blood feuds have lasted generations. Let’s not build more military bases in the middle of that. Armies cannot build schools, hospitals, and successful democracies in the midst of tribal cultures.
Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis (Paperback)
Another Comic Serving Visual Literacy
23-Dec-09
Disguised as a biography of mathematician Bertrand Russell in graphic novel form, this comic book is really about the nature and limits of logic. It takes heady, heavy, and key ideas in logic and renders them witty, visual, and dramatic. You'll learn a lot. The fact that many of the original logicians were mentally unbalanced and irrational, adds a dash of delicious paradox and spice to this entertaining book.– KK Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth 2009, 352 pages $14
via Cool Tools.