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• The Worst Case Scenario, in which all the following happens:
  
  1) Tibetan monks or the FLG self-immolate during the opening ceremonies.
  
  2) Foreign tourists complain about secondhand smoke, "massage" phone calls to their hotel rooms, spitting, lack of queues and price gouging.
  
  3) Domestic tourists complain about even worse price gouging. Indignant domestic visitors get mad when their tickets are revealed to be fakes.
  
  4) Wiseacre tourists pose in front of the Olympics logo re-enacting this picture. Hilarity ensues when Chinese citizens/officials get wind of it.
  
  5) Athletes complain of racial profiling and repressive security measures at the Olympic Village, though in fairness its the Chinese security apparatus trying to do their best.
  
  6) A phalanx of visitors with protest t-shirts are detained.
  
  7) Japanese athletes get harassed.
  
  8) Triathletes succumb to pollution, or controversy erupts over the US and other teams sporting breathing masks.
  
  9) Nasty poor sportsmanship rears its head when Liu Xiang doesn't win the gold.
  
  10) Afghanistan's only competing athlete misses his event due to traffic.
  
  11) African athletes get harassed in Sanlitun.
  
  12) Al Qaeda or some other nutjobs pull a Munich.
  
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• 大旗的CEO周春兰：她的公司为客户监视500，000个在线论坛动向。
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• Der Jammer mit der Menschheit ist, dass die Narren so selbstsicher sind und die Gescheiten so voller Zweifel... (Zitat: Bertrand Russell, Bertrand 3. Earl of Russell, brit. Mathematiker u. Philosoph, 1950 Nobelpreis für Literatur, 1872 - 1970)
• Ein Mensch, der seine Arbeit liebt, wird niemals alt... (Zitat: Pablo Casals, span. Cellist, Komponist u. Dirigent, 1876 - 1973)

• Verizon to spin-off yellow pages business

  from Dallas Business Journal:

  
  

  Verizon Communications Inc. is spinning off its print and Internet yellow pages directories business to its stockholders in November.

• The San Francisco Chronicle writes:

  
  
  

  <<If you check out YouTube right now, the Web site looks pretty much the
  same as it did two weeks ago, before Google bought it for $1.6 billion. (...)
  
  
  
  But for many of us, there’s a definite vibe that the wild fun times will
  soon be coming to an end. It’s like your parents are coming up the
  driveway, and you’ve broken the crystal egg and are going to be grounded
  for the next eight months – leaving you with nothing except the crazy
  memories of that brothel you ran out of their house over the weekend. (...)

• All the good stuff is on other blogs

  from Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger by Robert Scoble

  
  

  I am now permanently addicted to Google Reader and am not using other news aggregators anymore. Why? Keyboard shortcuts. J, J, J, K, Shift-S, J, J, J, Shift-S. Also because I got a Mac and a Windows machine now and it’s just easier to use a Web browser to read feeds (and I’m not so anal about reading feeds on planes anymore).

  
  

  Google Reader brings me a “river” of latest items that I use keyboard shortcuts to go through. It’s much faster to read feeds this way. I just wish they would allow me to see the river full screen and get rid of the list of blogs I’m subscribed to. Once I’m subscribed I don’t care anymore.

  
  

  What did I just “Shift-S”? You can read my link blog to see. But the last thing is a TechCrunch post, which shows that Google has a full-size replica of SpaceShipOne and are putting it in their building 43.

  
  

  That reminds me. This week coming up is Blog Business Summit week and there’s a few things that people who are visiting Seattle should go and see.

  
  

  1) Museum of Flight.
  
  2) Seattle Library.
  
  3) The 747 plant. (Largest building in the world by volume).
  
  4) First Starbucks.

  
  

  Anyway, all the cool stuff is on other blogs. J J J J J J J J…

• Better Writing Instruction Needed in Middle Level and High Schools
• private companies spend nearly $3.1 billion every year to provide their employees with on-the-job training in basic writing skills.
• Alliance for Excellent Education (AEE)
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  The great Danish physicist Niels Bohr, it is said, had a good-luck horseshoe hanging in his office. "You don't believe in that nonsense, do you?" a visitor once asked, to which Bohr replied, "No, but they say it works whether you believe in it or not."
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• The draft resolution would have also demanded Israel pull out of the territory.

  
  

  The veto came one day ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's scheduled visit

• Four nations abstained from voting on the contentious resolution,
  including Denmark, Britain, Japan and Slovakia. Security Council
  resolutions require unanimous consent from the five permanent members:
  China, France, Russia, the U.K. and U.S.
• This resolution does not display an evenhanded characterization of
  the recent events in Gaza, nor does it advance the cause of
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• Laughter is the shortest distance between two people
• кста мог ею(им) поделиться с ближним. Нужно просто выделить текст и в выпадающем меню выбрать «Выделить и переслать», потом вводите адрес электронной почты и ссылка у вашего товарища в почтовом ящике. Признаться честно, я просто терпеть не могу получать интересные ссылки по интернет мессенджеру, потому предложу воспользоваться данной функцией всем кого знаю, всем с кем регулярно обмениваюсь полезными и веселыми ссылками. Удобно и нужно минимум действий, кроме того Diigo заботливо сохраняет отправленные ссылк
• WP-Cal，一个日程管理插件，拥有简洁漂亮的输出样式，你可以设定密码来选择私人使用。
  
  　　上传目录激活；在wp-admin->options->wp-cal中可以调整一些属性；创建一个新页面，在其中加入内容”<!–cal–>”。另外如果WordPress没有安装在根目录，需要修改插件”js”目录下的cal.js文件中的”var baseurl”为正确路径。

• Matthew Tretter has solved the perennial problem with the current vertical centering technique – loss of content when the window is too small. His simple solution is the addition of a floated ‘shiv div’ that sits at the top, pushing the main content area down, but then collapses when the content arrives at the top of the screen.

  
  

  This shiv div could also serve other purposes, such as container for skip links, although the addition of a simple little div doesn’t cause me any sleepless nights.

  
  

  Before I leave the subject of vertical centering, a wee tip. Instead of making the negative margin exactly half the height of the main content, give it 10px more. Its a picture framing trick, as centering it exactly can make it feel as if it’s ‘falling off the page’.

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• “International humanitarian law prohibits direct attacks against civilians and civilian objects as well as indiscriminate attacks and attacks that cause disproportionate damage to civilians. A prohibited indiscriminate attack includes using weapons that are incapable of discriminating between civilians and combatants or between civilian and military objects. (…) Because Qassams are not capable of accurate targeting, it is unlawful to use them in or near areas populated with civilians.”

  
  

  “Calling civilians to a location that the opposing side has identified for attack is at worst human shielding, at best failing to take all feasible precautions to protect civilians from the effects of attack. Both are violations of international humanitarian law. (…) It is a war crime to seek to use the presence of civilians to render certain points or areas immune from military operations or to direct the movement of the civilian population or individual civilians in order to attempt to shield military objectives from attack.”

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• As part of his platform to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) recently introduced the States Using Collaboration and Coordination to Enhance Standards for Students (SUCCESS) Act (S. 164).
• According to Kennedy, the SUCCESS Act would update the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) to ensure that it sets a national benchmark that is “internationally competitive” and “aligned with the demands of the 21st century global economy.” The measure would also require the secretary of education to examine the gaps in student performance on state assessments and NAEP test scores.
• Amidst a flurry of legislative activity on the first day of the 110th Congress, Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-MI), a former professor of physics, outlined his agenda for improving math and science education in the United States. “Our nation’s future economic competitiveness and national security will depend upon a workforce equipped with necessary math and science skills,” Ehlers stated. “Unfortunately, our students lag behind their international peers on several key indicators, and our states and schools are not held accountable for K–12 science education.”
• A great piece of fiction can demand that you acknowledge the reality of its wildest proposition, no matter how alien it may be to you. It can also force you to concede the radical otherness lurking within things that appear most familiar. This is why the talented reader understands George Saunders to be as much a realist as Tolstoy, Henry James as much an experimentalist as George Perec. Great styles represent the interface of “world” and “I”, and the very notion of such an interface being different in kind and quality from your own is where the power of fiction resides. Writers fail us when that interface is tailored to our needs, when it panders to the generalities of its day, when it offers us a world it knows we will accept having already seen it on the television. Bad writing does nothing, changes nothing, educates no emotions, rewires no inner circuitry - we close its covers with the same metaphysical confidence in the universality of our own interface as we did when we opened it. But great writing - great writing forces you to submit to its vision. You spend the morning reading Chekhov and in the afternoon, walking through your neighbourhood, the world has turned Chekhovian; the waitress in the cafe offers a non- sequitur, a dog dances in the street.
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• is breathing a deep sigh of relief, too
• nd spent Tuesday filling up flip-charts and mapping out the conquest of the Western world.
• It’s actually fun to stay hip and wired into the cutting edge.
• There never was a rule dictating that the adventure and excitement had to stop in your life after a certain expiration date.
• The key is simply to stay loose and alert, like a jaguar.
• We live in exciting times.
• I understand the urge to go hide under the covers… but I also know the thrill of going mano-a-mano with the great Technology Beast, and winning.
• Conceived and shot by DDB Oslo, our favourite of the two clips (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPiNULjcLzk) shows a bunch of budding engineers fooling around with a construction on a train track, all shot in a shaky handcam style and ensuring the clip finds its natural home on YouTube (where it’s already been seen 650,000 times). We’re not going to ruin the surprise, but sufficit to say these little terrors have applied both their energies and their expertise with a spanner in a way that’ll take your breath away. The second spot - www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQTW0dU0bGM - totally encapsulates boyhood fantasies.
• What a fabulous bunch of ego-maniacs, ripe for humiliation and merciless reality checks.
• full of good tidings and all that.
• I won’t bore you with a long synopsis
• So my first post is on… ego.
• an interpersonal grudge match of twenty-something Type A overachievers.
• It’s the equivalent of stamping your foot and demanding the world bend to your will.
• This is unheard of.
• I find people with big egos hilarious. One of the first cool, useable things you learn in Psychology 101 is that, whenever someone goes overboard on attitude, it’s a sure bet they’re hiding a frightened inner child deep inside. Their arrogance is a shield for the fraility of their sense of self-worth.
• Their sharp wit was honed as protection, not entertainment
• I know I have too much to learn yet in life to be smug about anything
• I struggled so hard for so long to dig myself out of the slacker rut I was in.
• Actually getting good in my chosen career.
• Confidence means “Yeah, I know how to do that” with the juice to back it up.
• Ego is “Of course I know how to do that”, minus the skill, knowledge and experience to actually DO it.
• Don’t tell me what you’re gonna do. Just do it, instead… and leave the attitude at home. Let’s see what kind of actual chops you’re packing.
• I decided to go deep and see what the fuss was about.
• And — yet again — the reality simply doesn’t live up to the hype.
• Paleo-Tech
• Ego is dark energy, based in fear.
• The implied secondary notion is that — yet again — these changes will affect us all in profound ways.
• Entrepreneurs are almost always on the cutting edge of the newest and flashiest tech.
• ’ll post more on this soon.
• 1. Transparency and authenticity. The business world has always had some good examples of companies that were transparent and authentic with their customers, but there would likely be agreement these were too few and far between. (It is interesting to note that small businesses, as a more immediate part of their community, have been more likely to practice these qualities... hmmm... ) There is no doubt that the technologies we call Web 2.0 have both required and produced transparency and authenticity. Blogging, especially, by its very nature, helps create transparency and authenticity--both for ourselves in our own thinking processes (see this thread on Will Richardson's blog), and for our organizations. This is why true blogging is so hard for companies that don't have an open culture.
• companies--even big ones--who are able to foster this kind of enviornment (including some parts of Google, I've heard). And in many small start-ups there is virtually no distinction between passion for the company and passion for the work--they are, essentially, the same thing, driven by the same overall desire to succeed. The companies that have the greatest chance, in my opinion, are the ones who can hang to that. And I would start by thinking of project managers as "producers" and treating the "talent" like gold ; )
• Web 3.0. -- Using the same pattern as the above Wikipedia definition, Web 3.0 could be defined as: "Web 3.0, a phrase coined by John Markoff of the New York Times in 2006, refers to a supposed third generation of Internet-based services that collectively comprise what might be called "the intelligent Web" -- such as those using semantic web, microformats, natural language search, data-mining, machine learning, recommendation agents, and artificial intelligence technologies - which emphasize machine-facilitated understanding of information in order to provide a more productive and intuitive user experience."
• afone can diversify into fixed line telephony, and start offering broadband (ADSL2+) services to the Hutch-Essar subscriber base, given their skew towards the upper crust of the telephony market. It can also help boost the ARPU from current $8 or so a month. Offering broadband, and then bundling it with a Wi-Fi-enabled residential gateway that can also support voice services.
• 74 percent of all lawsuits end in out of court settlements
• An average person spends six minutes a day in hesitant speech, using words such as "um" or "er".
• An average door is closed 79 percent of its lifetime.
• When dying, the common house fly emits a loud, high-pitched screech at a frequency higher than human humans can hear but detectable by dogs.
• The Guardian reports that Microsoft has collected 5.5 petabytes of data from crash logs of Windows Vista.
• 99.91 percent of ingredients in all hair shampoo sold in the US is the same, despite the over 1000 percent price difference between the least expensive and most expensive brand tested.
• Worldwide, there are 14792 known words for "hate", but only 968 for "love."
  
• The Oxford English Dictionary states that a fact must be 10 or fewer words in length to be considered a factoid.
• There are 12 Washington lobbying organizations fully or substantially dedicated to putting an end to Daylight Saving Time.
• In Uganda it is illegal for a man to step into a street with his left foot first.
• Chewed pen caps outnumber unchewed ones nearly two to one in a typical American office place.
• Toronto, Canada had the highest number of registered sex offenders per capita than any other city worldwide.
• Despite popular stereotypes, a recent survey has revealed that men, on average, spend 26 percent more time shopping than women do.
• If all the energy used by a human heart was collected over an entire lifetime, there would only be enough energy to power an average home PC for 7.3 minutes.
• 3.7 percent of the population believe that they possess some kind of psychic power.
• Among the strangest things ever insured by celebrities with Lloyd's of London are Dolly Parton's breasts, Celine Dion's vocal cords, and Michael Jackson's glove.
• Pencil sharpeners kill more people every year than sharks.
  
• Studies have found that office memos on blue paper are least likely to be ignored by workers.
• An average deck of cards has been used at least once in 6 different games.
  
• Roughly one third of frogs born in industrial areas are red-green colorblind due to pollutants in their water supply.
• The first game of dodge ball was played in 1493 in Belgum, where it was traditionally played dead rabbits.
• 83 percent of wind-up toys will stop working within 100 uses.
• 68 percent of attempted internet connections are malicious in nature. This includes spam, viruses, port scans, and other attacks.
• The average child knows 26 riddles, and nine story-form jokes. The average adult knows eight and two, respectively.
• Of the ten deadliest animals in the world, six are insects and three are arachnids.
• The average female looks at herself in a mirror 9.2 minutes per day. The average male looks at himself in a mirror 1.4 minutes per day.
• Every year, seemingly due to New Years' resolutions, sales of cigarettes drop by about 30 percent in January, but then regain half that in February, and are back to normal levels in March.
• Former President George H. W. Bush won a national whistling contest in 1935 at the age of 11.
• Each year, American drivers use three billion gallons of gas idling in driveways and parking spots
• The average short story is 3,232 words long.
  
• There have been over 3.5 million patent applications submitted for mousetraps. Of these, 97 percent are rejected as being too similar to an existing product.
• American mainstream media reporters covering online worlds such as Second Life outnumber those covering the country of Somolia.
• Worldwide, 87 percent of the gifts given this Christmas were manufactured in China.
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  • When measured as biomass, 87 percent of all known organisms reproduce asexually.
• The most common request made to Santa by children aged 3 to 7 is a puppy. The most common request by children ages 8 to 11 is a bicycle.
• Cats have twice the sense of smell of dogs, but cannot be easily trained to use it.
• On average, it takes until January 24th before one remembers to change the year when writing the date. People who work with large quantities of dated material daily shorten the average to January 15th.

• minutes after the voice mail was left, with every word Grandpa said. If you want to listen to your message the old-fashioned way, you can still call your voice mail and check it.
  

  
  SimulScribe seems to combine the functions of GotV

• In a study done at Cornell University, it was found that athiests were 63 percent more likely to return a wallet found on the street than self-described Christians. The research was done with a planted wallet and a hidden camera.
• best parents aren’t the ones who smoke pot with their kids because, ‘Well, they were going to try it anyway.’ And they aren’t the ones who let kids think that it’s o.k. to break rules, etc… they are the ones who teach kids
• SNSは競合も多く厳しい市場環境ではありますが、まだまだ進化と拡大の余地が残されている市場だとも思います。
• 普段はサブPCのIntel MacをメインPCのサブモニタとして使って、必要なときにはFast OS SwitchingしてMacを使う。そんなオトコノコ心をガンガン揺さぶる使い方が出来てしまいます。
• Advocacy involves advancing a cause or proposal through persuasive argument.

• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a tall tall
  tall former basketball star (2m19, or 7 feet 2 - picture), one of the
  most amazing champions this sport has ever had -- I remember following him and
  "Magic" Johnson when I was a teenager and they were playing for the Lakers.
  He's
  working on a book called "On the shoulders of giants". He tells his story of
  being born and raised in Harlem, a place of big hopes and changes thanks to the
  civil rights movement and the Harlem Renaissance. He tells of the teachings of Martin Luther
  King, of how that inspired him to look inside and explore his own soul -- "and
  now I hope that the world sees me not 7 feet 2 inches tall, but 7 feet 2 inches
  deep". He offers the audience his "three most important principles of success".
  Integrity: for me integrity is best explained through jazz
  music; musicians that have integrity pursue their vision, not just what the
  public might want; integrity requires confidence: in our vision, in our
  capacities. Learning system: focus must be not on how many
  points you score, but on the system. Execution: you must know
  your competition, your potential, your strengths, and how to play to your
  strengths and weaknesses; execution is about preparation, timing, knowing your
  enemy (strategy) and knowing your enemy's sword (what tools he has).

• 还是汉尼拔医生说得好：We begin by coveting what we see every day.
• But Montagu, the only Jew in the Cabinet at the time, was intensely hostile to
  the Balfour Declaration and the idea of a Jewish homeland, let alone state,
  bitterly asking colleagues why they disliked him so much that they wanted to
  pack him off to an oriental ghetto.
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• Those who believe America is facing its darkest and most dangerous time since Sept. 11 are only showing their lack of knowledge of history, according to acclaimed historical writer David McCullough.
• A few folks have already noticed the cute Twitter box that's now on the lower left sidebar of my blog.  An even rarer few might have noticed that it only works intermittently -- seems that Twitter's quite popular at the moment, and is not completely functional due to apparent server drain on its resources.
      I'm going to try to Twitter for a while.  I am torn about it's usefulness -- seems like both a handy way to keep track of people that you're interested in, but it also seems like a procrastination station. 
       We'll see.  In case you're curious, here's my Twitter profile.  Come along for the ride.
      If you want to live vicariously through the Twittering of others, then you might want to check out Twittervision.  Now that's got potential.  Thanks to Dave for the link.
• Those who believe America is facing its darkest and most dangerous time since Sept. 11 are only showing their lack of knowledge of history, according to acclaimed historical writer David McCullough.
  
  "There was no simpler time," he told a sold-out audience at Layton High School as part of Davis County's Davis Reads program. "It's a form of our present-day hubris."
• they were fellow travelers
• bor Kerekes - OVER ROSWELL-2 / 2005
  

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• The Google Toolbar now includes a dice icon. Click it and you’ll be taken to a new website that Google thinks you’ll find interesting based on your previous search queries.
• Then came the pleasant surprise: Hess makes clear that school choice hasn’t produced transformative competition and innovation because, so far, almost no competition or innovation has been allowed to occur.
  
  Pointing to everything from enrollment caps, to profit prohibitions, to suffocating bureaucracy in choice vehicles ranging from charter schools to voucher programs, Hess concludes that “the lessons are increasingly clear. If school choice is to enjoy a brighter future than wave upon wave of supposed school reforms, it is time for reformers to fight not just for choice but for good choices.”
  
  I couldn’t agree more, and want to be the first to welcome Hess aboard the good ship Free-Market Education! We here at Cato have been sailing it for some time now, and offer all kinds of guides for anyone who wants to cruise with us, including the Cato Education Market Index; Dismal Science: The Shortcomings of U.S. School Choice Research and How to Address Them; and Markets vs. Monopolies in Education: A Global Review of the Evidence.
• that led to less trade
• The ongoing use of "social networking" has been damaging to any productive conversation, both in the academy and in startup circles
• ecomes a "webfront" -- a physical trial space for online shopping.
• Like many in the tech industry, he argues that we have a moral responsibility to eliminate "security by obscurity" so that people aren't shocked when they are suddenly exposed
• people will develop antibodies to handle the consequences
• who will be marginalized in
• a lot of privilege, when people cannot hold meaningful power over you, or when you can route around such efforts
• it's about only being visible in context.
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• The odd thing about forced exposure is that it creates a scenario where everyone is a potential celebrity
• every public interaction with the imagined costs of all future interpretations of that ephemeral situation. This is not just a matter of illegal acts, but even minor embarrassing ones.
• Think about whistle blowers, women or queer folk in repressive societies, journalists
• The privileged often argue that society will be changed if all of those oppressed are suddenly visible
• No one in their right mind would decide to expose all of society to a virus just to see who would survive.
• Just because people can profile, stereotype, and label people doesn't mean that they should.

•          1994年，杨致远创造的雅虎，并不是什么创举。网站目录的想法，是一个很自然的想法，中国广东县城初中没毕业的王兴平后来也想到了，这就是hao123.com。

  2.         雅虎生逢其时，赶上第一次互联网高潮。上市融资，商业运作的成功并不能掩盖雅虎的骨子里的虚弱。

  3.         Google出现之后，雅虎就应该退出历史舞台了。作为门户，Google更有效率，雅虎代表落后的翻页文化。是资本的力量让雅虎又苟延残喘了这么多年。

  4.         微软买雅虎，是在买流失的流量和用户而已，并不是买什么创新和产品。微软是因为Google，才来收购雅虎的。杨致远现在还有一点讨价还价资本，那是因为Google，不是因为雅虎。

• loneliness is failed solitude
• 还是汉尼拔医生说得好：
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• To forge a fax over Rx, you need to obtain the computer generated paper copy (which most doctors office will give you to), scan it, and just use photoshop or some other program to fill in whatever your heart wishes, then just fax it over.
• The patient came into the pharmacy looking to pick up her seizure medication. What happened was that this patient normally gets her scripts filled via mail order. However, this time, her mail order pharmacy was late in processing and mailing out her script. She was now completely out of her anti-seizure medication.
• A while back ago one of my company's  pharmacists had quit for our competitor, and ironically, their pharmacist who has been working there for 10 years interviewed for a position at our pharmacy.  Her motive for leaving was because she did not like the direction her company was going, which can be translated into not liking a new "boss situation

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• . Very rarely will someone grind it out and end up the winner. However, in life, there are plenty of people who are grinding it out every day and very content doing their own thing.
• and for many people the feeling of work and accomplishment is important to maintaining a healthy emotional balance.
• technology’s role has changed. It is a commodity now. Its role is simply (!) to
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• And this, I think, explains the antagonistic view many political
  reporters have toward bloggers. I think it almost boggles their minds
  that there are people out there - normal, ordinary people - who care
  about politics and aren't paid to do so
• objective" reporting all
  but prohibits reporters from caring about political outcomes. This
  means that the kind of people attracted to political reporting almost
  necessarily have to find politics appealing only as some sort of grand
  kabuki.

• 
  I submit the following:
  

  
  
  
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        Political reporters hate politics
• he one point that really stood out to me at this session was the great
  amount of disconnect between faculty members, administration, and technical support.  If the administration wants the faculty to do
  research, then how can they expect them to have time to learn new technologies
  that they aren’t being paid to learn? 
  
• The one point that really stood out to me at this session was the great
  amount of disconnect between faculty members, administration, and technical support.  If the administration wants the faculty to do
  research, then how can they expect them to have time to learn new technologies
  that they aren’t being paid to learn? 
• Dell: We have identified five big opportunities. When I say big, I’m talking about $5-$10 billion dollars each in terms of scale opportunities. They are the consumer business, mobile computers, emerging countries, enterprise, and small/medium business. We [have] reorganized the company around these key priorities.
• blogs self correct very quickly (usually within hours) because if I get it wrong the people who actually know the truth will jump on me fast and furiously and that blogs arrive at the truth faster BECAUSE of the participation of everyone involved.
• Security startup Nevis Networks has decided that selling through the channel is better than going direct.
  

  
  On Monday, the Mountain View, Calif.-based network access control (NAC) vendor, which last September launched under a mostly direct-sales model, took the wraps off a two-tier channel program that offers discounts and deal registration.

• Expert Panel Discusses the Facts

  
  
  

  Last month, the Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Congress invited a group of experts to discuss The Facts About Youth Online Victimization. The panelists were: danah boyd, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley and fellow at the University of Southern California Annenberg Center for Communications; Dr. David Finkelhor, the director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center (CCRC) at the University of New Hampshire; Amanda Lenhart, senior research specialist at Pew Internet & American Life Project; and Dr. Michele Ybarra, the president of Internet Solutions for Kids. As I listened to the panel, I couldn’t believe it hadn’t received more media attention.

• June 4, 2007

  
  

  
  

  
  
  

  “The Engine of Communications”: Is Your Principal Involving Teachers in Crucial School Decisions?

  
  
  

  Filed under: General — Peter Goodman @ 12:17 pm

  
  
  

  The Department is in the process of “rolling out” the range of initiatives that the 321 Empowerment Schools endured this year. By the end of June each and every principal will have sat through “Toolkit 1″ and “Toolkit 2,” rather lengthy and dense presentations. The seventy plus PowerPoint slide presentation has been eagerly awaited, as principals peer into Plato’s cave.

  
  

  An interesting part of the presentation is a plea to start up the “engine of communications,” involve all the stakeholders: teachers, support staff and parents in the mix.

  
  

  The future:

  
  

  Interim Assessments: Each and every school will have to chose Acuity (McGraw Hill) and/or Performance Online (Scantron), assessments in ELA and Math that will have to be administered (grades 3-8 five times a year, HS four times a year) throughout the school year. The assessment results are web-based, available to every teacher, and can be disaggregated in any combination of formats.

  
  

  Will

  your principal involve the UFT Chapter in data-driven decisions re the use of school funds?

  
  

  School Progress Report: Next year each and every school will receive a School Report Card and a letter grade (A to F) based on School Environment (15%), Student Performance (30%), Student Progress (55%) and possible “extra credit” for moving ELL, Special Ed, Hispanic, Black and “Other” students in the lowest third citywide. All principals year end ratings will be based on the SPR grade.

  
  

  Has your principal explained the School Progress Report metrics to your staff?

  
  

  Inquiry Team: All schools must establish an Inquiry Team, a committee composed of school staff (”at least one teacher”) that will investigate 15-30 low achieving students and share their findings with the school staff. The principal has a sample posting and the Team must be selected by the end of this school year.

  
  

  Has your principal invited teachers to serve on the Team? Has s/he posted the position(s)?

  
  

  ARIS: All the current data troves: ATS, HSST, CAPS, NYSTART (SED Testing Data) will be embedded in ARIS and can be downloaded to Excel formats by teachers and other designated school staff. By September schools can analyze the warehouse of data that up to now has been sequestered in discrete programs.

  
  

  Will

  your principal provide training and involve staff in the data analysis process and the creation of school programs to implement measures to address the data?

  
  

  If principals hide in offices with their acolytes and issue ukases we will continue to joust, and the kids will suffer. If principals see the “engine of communication” as a process to share with teachers and listen to teachers perhaps, just perhaps, we can create schools that are “learning organizations.”

  
  

  It would be even more helpful if Joel acknowledged “school leaders” include teachers as well as principals.

• purpose of Techmeme et al is to identify interesting conversations, not to microanalyze them down to which comment was the best.  What possible basis can they have for determining which comment is best at present anyway?  Are we going to measure impressions?  Do we care that the comments at top will automatically get more impressions than the ones at the bottom?  Are we going to vote?  At Helpstream, we let people indicate which response to a community question is the “best answer”, but no such facility exists in the blog comments I’m familiar with.

• Value Subtracted

  
  
  

  Filed under: General — Jackie Bennett @ 2:17 am

  
  
  

  In their Children’s First brochure, Klein and his people describe the system of value-added assessments that will become the primary means to fail schools,  fire principals, bully teachers, and test-prep children unto death. In the value added system, schools will be evaluated based how upon  much progress students have made as they move from grade to grade.

  
  

  For example, let’s say that last year 40% of  the fourth graders at a particular school did not meet learning standards in ELA.  The question then becomes, well, how did these same kids do this year, in grade five? Was the school able to decrease the number of failing students by 10%, or even 2%?  Or, did the failure rate go up?

  
  

  Based upon the answer to that question, schools will rise and fall. In fact, according to the brochure, 55% of a school’s grade is derived from value-added data alone (and another 30% from overall performance on the tests).  

  
  

  Whether or not that’s a good idea is not the subject of this post.  But if value-added data matters so much in judging all of us – and if it is going to be part of this clear and transparent information we hear so much about – then why doesn’t it seem to count in judging them?  More specifically, why didn’t Klein and the DoE discuss their own “value-added” data in the PR they released with the 2007 ELA test scores several weeks ago?  After all, with students now taking standardized state tests every year from grades three to eight, it is possible – in fact easy – to follow groups of children (cohorts) across time, from grade to grade.   

• No, school boards need fiscal autonomy.
  
  Every year school boards are faced with asking their governing bodies
  
  for revenue they need to continue the services they provide and every
  
  year they are short changed.

  
  
  

  By giving school boards taxing authority, school boards would have
  
  the authority to decide what is going to happen in their schools and
  
  to generate the revenue necessary to make that happen.
  
  Revenue for K-12 public schools comes primarily from state
  
  governments, local school districts and the federal government. In
  
  the aggregate, the states provide 48% of all revenue, school
  
  districts provide 45%, and the federal government provides 7% of all
  
  revenue.1 The majority of state level education funding is
  
  appropriated from state general funds, with other funding from
  
  earmarked taxes such as income and sales taxes. State funding levels,
  
  established in state policy, can create incentives or disincentives
  
  for districts to provide full-day kindergarten. When states provide
  
  funding for full-day kindergarten that is equal to or greater than
  
  state funding provided for 1st grade, districts have an incentive to
  
  offer full-day kindergarten. To date, only eight states provide
  
  school districts with funding for full-day kindergarten that is equal
  
  to or greater than that provided for 1st grade.2 In contrast, when
  
  states provide funding for full-day kindergarten that is less than
  
  funding provided for 1st grade, local revenue sources must make up
  
  the difference. Funding for local school districts comes primarily
  
  from property taxes. In some states, other sources of revenue
  
  provide funding streams, such as local sales taxes and local income
  
  taxes. To that end, local district taxation, as well as state limits
  
  on spending, play a critical role in whether or not local school
  
  districts have the ability to support programs such as full-day
  
  kindergarten.
  
  Local Control Over School Budgets and Taxes
  
  School district budget and tax rate procedures vary among the states.
  
  Often, local school boards have authority for both developing budgets
  
  and levying taxes to support district budgets. If school districts
  
  can levy taxes to support public education, they are considered
  
  fiscally independent. The nature of this taxing authority varies from
  
  state to state. For example, school boards in some states may need
  
  voter approval for any tax increase, while others may need only voter
  
  approval after a specified tax rate is surpassed.
  
  In some instances, school boards do not have independent tax
  
  authority, so another governmental entity typically a municipal or
  
  county governing body approves the budget and levies taxes. If a
  
  school district cannot levy its own taxes, it is considered fiscally
  
  dependent.

• There has been much discussion of standards in the last week, fueled by the release of two major reports. The National Center for Education Statistics raised some interesting questions about the rigor of state standards and variation between the states. Their report compelled Secretary Spellings to argue against national standards on the editorial pages of the Washington Post.

  There is some ambiguity in the use of the word "standards" in this debate. In terms of curriculum, standards are a specific description of what students should know and be able to do by the end of a course or grade level. This is what we mean by "national standards." In terms of assessment, standards are the level of performance to which students are held accountable -- the difficulty of the test. This is what we mean by "high standards" (which, incidentally, is also the reason women say they won’t go out with me). It's the difference between what a student should learn and how well they need to learn it to pass the test.

  The distinction is subtle but important. As a high school math teacher, I immediately noticed a significant gap between my state’s curriculum standards and what was expected on the state test, and I often wished they were more aligned. There was more depth and more breadth in the curriculum standards. Of course, even these did not account for everything I wanted to teach my students, like mental toughness or the importance of going to college

• There has been much discussion of standards in the last week, fueled by the release of two major reports. The National Center for Education Statistics raised some interesting questions about the rigor of state standards and variation between the states. Their report compelled Secretary Spellings to argue against national standards on the editorial pages of the Washington Post.

  There is some ambiguity in the use of the word "standards" in this debate. In terms of curriculum, standards are a specific description of what students should know and be able to do by the end of a course or grade level. This is what we mean by "national standards." In terms of assessment, standards are the level of performance to which students are held accountable -- the difficulty of the test. This is what we mean by "high standards" (which, incidentally, is also the reason women say they won’t go out with me). It's the difference between what a student should learn and how well they need to learn it to pass the test.

  The distinction is subtle but important. As a high school math teacher, I immediately noticed a significant gap between my state’s curriculum standards and what was expected on the state test, and I often wished they were more aligned. There was more depth and more breadth in the curriculum standards. Of course, even these did not account for everything I wanted to teach my students, like mental toughness or the importance of going to college.

• Teacher professional development is undergoing a radical change for the better, thanks to the development of new online professional “learning communities” that give educators the chance to network and exchange ideas with their peers at their own convenience. Members of these online communities also have “just in time” access to instructional tools such as videos, tutorials, and other advice whenever they need it.
  

  
  
  
  June 13, 2007—

• League tables
  

  
  Every child in England takes a total of eight national curriculum tests, often known as standard assessment tests (Sats), at the ages of seven, 11 and 14, before GCSE and A-Level examinations.
  

  
  According to the GTC, at some schools children can face about 70 tests or exams in formal settings between the ages of seven and 16.
  

  
  
  
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  Keith Bartley, chief executive of the GTC, said: "We need to trust teachers more and let them do what they are trained for."
  

  
  He said employers "want to see better skilled youngsters" and were not concerned about results of exams sat when aged seven.
  

  
  Earlier this year the head of the exams authority also suggested samples of pupils, rather than all pupils, could be tested to check standards in England.
  

  
  However, Ken Boston, chief executive of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, said Sats should stay for the time being, but could eventually be replaced by progress-testing.
  

  
  
  
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  The General Teaching Council, which is an independent regulatory body working to promote better standards of teaching, maintains testing a sample of children, rather than every child, would help ease pressure on them.
  

  
  Adopting such a system would still see teachers set exams drawn from a national "bank of tests" at times appropriate to their pupils.
  

  
  The council says Sats are defended because they are as much about the position obtained by schools in performance tables on the back of the results.
  

  
  The GTC is hoping that an inquiry by the education select committee will persuade the government to drop its support for national testing.

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• MAP 5-Year Results Released

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  It doesn’t seem like all that long ago that we were enthusing about the results from the first three years of data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe satellite. Now the team has put out an impressive series of papers discussing the results of the first five years of data. Here is what the CMB looks like, with galaxy and foregrounds and monopole and dipole subtracted, from Ned Wright’s Cosmology Tutorial:

  
  

  
  
  

• When the value of the site reaches a point where people begin to spread the word, then the increase in the number of users becomes subject to a network effect
• Not only that, but Crocs has been pushing for higher trade barriers, not lower ones. In March 2006, Crocs filed a complaint seeking to block imports of copycat shoes made in Canada and China, claiming they violated a patent for “breathable footwear pieces.”
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• The Merck/Merial Manual for Pet Health

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  The Merck Veterinary Manual has long been the standard guide found in most veterinarian's back offices. Vets are required to serve the needs of many animals, not just one, and so this venerable book is their operating manual for lesser known species. It also serves as a reminder for uncommon ailments in the common species of pets. Recently Merck/Merial has published a one-volume paper-bound home edition of the Vet Manual. It is less technical, but still remarkably deep, and by far the best pan-species health guide for pets. It is often even better than many single pet health guides.
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• 我个人觉得assert_select是一项很伟大的功能。我们整天都说TDD、TDD……，但是web应用，你怎么TDD？测试能够覆盖到页面上去吗？这在其他web开发当中是一个难题，但是assert_select就可以，而且完成的很漂亮，很简单。事实上，有了assert_select和集成测试，类似selenium之类的外部测试框架完全可以退休了。
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• Google is keen to have access to UC's 34 million volumes from 100 libraries on 10 campuses, which is described as collectively the largest academic research library in the world. UC wants to delve more deeply into the Internet revolution with a deep-pockets partner like Google paying the costs of scanning books.
• Within this publication an array of inspiring experts offer their knowledge and opinion to guide you down the aisle. Case studies of couples who have already taken their baby green steps into married life also offer insight into how to have a successful ethical wedding. What is an eco-friendly venue? Should you fly away for your honeymoon? How do you get the perfectly green wedding dress? You know you don’t want a blood diamond on your finger – but what are the other options whilst keeping some bling? The author looks at all the aspects to help you plan for your special day without the green guilt.
• hows that even when you are asleep, your ears, brain and body continue to react to sounds, raising levels of stress hormones. However, if these stress hormones are in constant circulation, they can cause long-term physiological changes
• 但是spring的致命问题是无法方便的对动态创建的bean进行依赖注入。Google Guice的出现让我们看到了其实prototype的bean和动态创建的bean其实也可以很容易的管理。spring自身的缺陷事实上造成了很难进行rich domain model架构的实现。
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• iphone开创了手持式设备界面交互的一个新的时代：不再使用键盘和触笔，而是人的手指；不再沿用PC时代的图形WIMP风格，而是虚拟现实的操作方式：

  
  
  

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• 所以问题就在于Flash和网页的大量交互，但很遗憾的是Flash操纵网页DOM的能力很弱，与传统的JavaScript无法相提并论！所以你会遇到各种意想不到的问题，而这些问题原本用JavaScript却是很简单的事情，例如驱动网页导航，刷新，打开关闭窗口，DIV隐藏显示等等，开发成本就是这么不知不觉升上来的。最终你会发现Flash的开发成本太高！
• HTML的诞生是适应于互联网大量文本内容的传播的，只要你的web应用还是以文本为主，就必须以HTML为主，这一点无法改变。那么就意味着你的Flash RIA必须要大量的和HTML页面进行交互。(也有一些纯网络游戏或者休闲游戏网站是纯flash的，几乎没有HTML，但这不是我们讨论之列)
• The United Nations, notorious for endless deliberations, is trying a
  
  technological quick fix. Its Global Compact Office, which promotes
  
  corporate responsibility, has embraced a once fringe social
  
  technology—the wiki—in hopes that it will help staff in 80 countries
  
  share information and reach consensus with less deliberation and more
  
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• Stardict 3.0.0
• 1. PR now stands for “Professional Relationships.” How can I tell a good PR person (like Brian) vs. a bad one (who sends me emails about stuff I’d never write about)? Easy: Brian builds relationships with me and every other blogger. He takes our pictures. He always welcomes us by name and with a smile
• The new PR is about creating visually-rich experiences.
• So, no longer is it appropriate to show off a PowerPoint presentation. A simple demo works far better and the best PR people come ready with a USB key full of screen captures and stuff.
• 3. You don’t need PR at all if you have a great product.
• 4. You gotta go meet bloggers, journalists, and influentials. Often. Early. They won’t come to you, you’ve gotta go to them. Watch Upcoming.org’s tech event calendar and see where they’ll be (at least that’s where the tech bloggers/influentials/journalists will be) and go there and make sure you meet them and make a good impression. Lines that work on me? “I got something that might make you cry” or “if you think FriendFeed is cool, wait until you see this.” Using lines like these demonstrate you know a little bit about my blog and are looking to only bring me really impressive stuff.
• 5. If you have a magical experience, invite influentials to share in.
• Laurent Haig invites me every year to his friend’s chalet in the Swiss mountains. A couple of years ago that led to a demo while sitting around drinking wine (he didn’t ask PR permission, which got him in a bit of trouble as they got nearly 100,000 requests in the next 24 hours, thanks to tons of blogging, including a post on TechCrunch. No PR people were involved, just an entrepreneur who understood the value of creating a fun experience for people who could tell other people about his product and company.
• 6. Create touch-points for influentials. Brian and other companies and PR professionals in the industry (including me and others at Fast Company) create events that attract bloggers and journalists and other influentials.

• Featured Windows Download: Secure your laptop with Laptop Alarm

  from Lifehacker by Adam Pash

  
  
  Windows only: Next time you leave your laptop unattended, turn on freeware program Laptop Alarm. Laptop Alarm sets off an alarm to alert you any time someone tries to log off, shut down, or disconnect your power supply or USB mouse without entering your password. Laptop Alarm is similar to Mac-only alarm iAlertU but—let's be honest—with much less pizazz. (iAlertU is motion-sensing, for chrissake!) Either way, neither software is foolproof by any means. Laptop Alarm won't prevent anyone from grabbing your computer and running, but at the very least it might sound off the alarm in enough time to give you a fighting chance to chase down the bad guy. (The only true method of theft prevention is never leaving your laptop alone.) Laptop Alarm is freeware, Windows only. For more advanced laptop theft fun, check out LaptopLock.
  
  

  
  
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• Featured Firefox Extension: Smoother scrolling with SmoothWheel

  from Lifehacker by Kyle Pott

  
  
  Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Open source extension SmoothWheel adds advanced scrolling options to Firefox. Immediately after you install SmoothWheel (and restart the Firefox) you will notice much smoother scrolling. Additionally, SmoothWheel has quite a few other handy preferences like scroll speed, step size, and hot keys to scroll longer lengths for large documents. If the mouse isn't for you, don't forget that Space bar and Shift+Space bar can be used to scroll Firefox from the keyboard. SmoothWheel is a free download and works wherever Firefox does. Thanks, Julius!
  
  

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