Present Tensed

Found on Web Between October 15th and October 23rd, 2009

Here are some links that I’ve tagged recently. This set is from Octo­ber 15th through Octo­ber 23rd:

• The United States Is a Food Waste­land | GOOD :: When it comes to food, Amer­i­cans are the undis­puted cham­pi­ons of one thing: trash. We waste food in vol­umes that it defies the imag­i­na­tion. New York City alone has an annual sur­plus of about 50 mil­lion pounds of food. Ten years ago, the United States Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture esti­mated that more than 96 bil­lion pounds of edi­ble food went to waste. And, accord­ing to anthro­pol­o­gist Tim Jones, the United States throws away just about half of the food it produces.
• iKeep­Safe — Faux Paw and the Dan­ger­ous Down­load :: In Faux Paw’s new adven­ture, the Web-surfing Techno Cat learns that down­load­ing is a great way to get infor­ma­tion … if it’s done the right way. When using a risky file shar­ing pro­gram to get a new song, Faux Paw learns the hard way that ille­gal down­load­ing hurts every­one, includ­ing herself!
• iLearn Tech­nol­ogy » Blog Archive » Big Uni­verse :: Big Uni­verse lets you read, cre­ate, and share children’s books online. 
• National Museum of Nat­ural His­tory — Dinosaurs :: Vir­tual Dinosaur Dig
• Scribblar.com — sim­ple, effec­tive online col­lab­o­ra­tion ::
• High Tech­pec­ta­tions: Elmhurst Col­lege Pre­sen­ta­tions :: Lucy Gray’s recent pre­sen­ta­tions on the State of Teach­ing and LEarn­ing in the 21st Century
• Lec­ture to assess qual­ity of K-12 sci­ence pro­grams | The Uni­ver­sity of Chicago :: “The State of Sci­ence Edu­ca­tion” is free and open to the pub­lic. It will begin at 5 p.m., Thurs­day, Oct. 22, at Hughes Audi­to­rium, 303 E. Supe­rior St., on North­west­ern University’s Chicago Cam­pus. Reg­is­tra­tion for the con­fer­ence can be com­pleted at: http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/Centers/chppp/sts2009/
• Robert F. Kennedy Cen­ter for Jus­tice & Human Rights ::
• UofC Trains Teach­ers — With­out An Ed School — Dis­trict 299 ::
• The 27-Inch iMac Is the New Apple TV | Gad­get Lab | Wired.com :: Add to this the iMac’s killer fea­ture: The screen can be used as a dis­play for another com­puter using an optional Dis­play­Port adapter (Dis­play­Port is a two-way inter­face). This means that, a few years down the line when you have con­vinced your­self your com­puter is too slow, you’ll still have a great TV.
• Canon S90 | Wired.com Prod­uct Reviews ::
• If These Ten Apps Don’t Con­vince You To Jail­break Your iPhone, Noth­ing Will | Cult of Mac ::
• Ihnatko says Apple tablet could play hero to comic books ::
• Sid Meier bring­ing Civ­i­liza­tion to Face­book | Web­ware — CNET ::
• AUSL :: Turn­around School Model :: SR: This is the group that’s spear­head­ing the turn­around effort at Dulles
• metaquark » AppFresh :: SR: Appfresh is neat, it checks the ver­sion num­bers on all the soft­ware on your mac, and links to places where you can down­load the updates (for many appli­ca­tions it’ll do the down­load­ing for you). It a nice way to peri­od­i­cally get every­thing up to date.
• Next Amer­i­can City » URBANEXUS ::
• What This Year’s Nobel Prize in Eco­nom­ics Says About the Nobel Prize in Eco­nom­ics — Freako­nom­ics Blog — NYTimes.com ::
• An Epi­demic of Fear: How Pan­icked Par­ents Skip­ping Shots Endan­gers Us All | Mag­a­zine ::
• Vol­cker Has Obama’s Ear, but Not on Over­haul of Banks — NYTimes.com :: “The banks are there to serve the pub­lic,” Mr. Vol­cker said, “and that is what they should con­cen­trate on. These other activ­i­ties cre­ate con­flicts of inter­est. They cre­ate risks, and if you try to con­trol the risks with super­vi­sion, that just cre­ates fric­tion and dif­fi­cul­ties” and ulti­mately fails.
• Wired 11.09: Pow­er­Point Is Evil ::
• Steal­ing Home | The Big Money :: Why are sports aggre­ga­tors beloved while news aggre­ga­tors are reviled?
• Word­Press › Twit­ter Live­Blog « Word­Press Plu­g­ins ::
• Top 10 Most Com­mon Cod­ing Mis­takes in Word­Press Plu­g­ins « plan­e­tOzh ::
• Op-Ed Guest Colum­nist — Rebrand­ing Amer­ica — NYTimes.com ::
• Wel­come to BLAKROC ::
• Fam­ily Guy, The Cleve­land Show and Amer­i­can Dad: Hyper Ani­ma­tion — TIME ::
• SuperDuper! 2.6.2 now even more so! ::
• Pitch­fork: Watch Mos Def Record With Black Keys ::
• Wood­lawn Col­lab­o­ra­tive ::
• In-house Radio.app in the works for iPhone and iPod touch | 9 to 5 Mac ::
• McSweeney’s Inter­net Ten­dency: George W. Bush’s Retire­ment To-Do List Regard­ing the Gophers on Craw­ford Ranch. ::
• Gapers Block : Drive-Thru : Chicago Food — No Flam­ing Hots Week! ::

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