Present Tensed

Found on Web Between October 9th and October 15th, 2009

Here are some links that I’ve tagged recently. This set is from Octo­ber 9th through Octo­ber 15th:

• Ball­park food hijacks your brain! Why does Amer­ica overindulge? The answer can be found at the ol’ ball­park. — ESPN ::
• Fin­land makes 1Mb broad­band access a legal right | Web­ware — CNET ::
• State of the Art — The Tech­nol­ogy Daz­zles, but Not the Pho­tos — NYTimes.com :: Get ready for the dawn of embed­ded micro­pro­jec­tors in cell­phones — and cam­eras, like this one. When you’re in play­back mode, a ded­i­cated but­ton on the top edge of the Nikon turns on a gasp-inducing pro­jected image, which can be as large as 40 inches diag­o­nal, depend­ing on your dis­tance from the wall, ceil­ing or T-shirt.

  Now, you’re not exactly going to get com­plaints from the neighbors

• Com­mon Craft — Our Prod­uct is Expla­na­tion :: Wel­come to Com­mon Craft. Our three-minute
  videos help edu­ca­tors and influ­encers
  intro­duce com­plex subjects.
• Study Finds High Rate of Impris­on­ment Among Dropouts — NYTimes.com ::
• Google Wave’s Best Use Cases — Wave — Life­hacker ::
• Admis­sions — Evening MBA and Week­end MBA — Uni­ver­sity of Chicago Booth School of Busi­ness ::
• The Chicago Pub­lic Schools (CPS)/University of Chicago (UC) Inter­net Project (CU ::
• Spread Google Wave | Com­mu­nity Site ::
• Smarter­ware by Gina Tra­pani | Change your default set­tings ::
• Google Wave Is The Future of Real Time Col­lab­o­ra­tion | Social Media Mar­ket­ing Strate­gies ::
• Google Wave: A Com­plete Guide ::
• Google Wave’s Lit­tle Secret: It Already Works On The iPhone ::
• Edu­ca­tion Week: Edu­ca­tion Sec­re­tary Leads Cho­rus Call­ing for Big City-Hall Role ::
• eduperience.com | Blog­gings for Teach­ers and Stu­dents :: SR: Another neat look­ing tool for blog­ging, based on WP (I thought I saw a WP men­tion in here)
• Tips and tricks: Putting Things in your Drop­box makes sync­ing sim­ple ::
• HOW TO: Down­load YouTube Videos to Your Desk­top ::
• 2009 Inter­ac­tive ISAT Multiple-Choice Sam­ple Ques­tions ::
• In Rural Africa, a Fer­tile Mar­ket for Mobile Phones — NYTimes.com ::
• Obama deserves the Nobel — The Globe and Mail :: The Nobel Peace Prize is not a lifetime-achievement award. It tends to hon­our actions that change the way the world func­tions, the way coun­tries engage or publics think about a con­flict. They should be impor­tant, his­toric actions, but the prize does not wait for results.
• YOU­Me­dia breaks all the library rules :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro ::
• 31 Word­Press Plu­g­ins That Turn Your Blog Into a CMS ::
• Tim­o­thy McSweeney’s Inter­net Ten­dency: Short Imag­ined Mono­logues ::
• VIDEO: The Simp­sons Does a Send-Up of Social Media :: The show opens with Edna Krabappel’s 4th grade class using their iPhones and tex­ting inces­santly. When she con­fis­cates their beloved devices, the chil­dren, led by Bart, plot to spike her cof­fee in an attempt to get them back.
• Pho­to­S­ketch: Pho­to­shop Image Recog­ni­tion = Awe­some ::
• Text Mes­sage (SMS) Polls and Vot­ing, Audi­ence Response Sys­tem | Poll Every­where ::
• FRONTLINE/WORLD . Liberia — No More War . Index page | PBS ::
• About the Nobel prize, two years ago — James Fal­lows ::
• Regretsy — Hand­made? It looks like you made it with your feet ::
• Cree­bobby dot com — Jacob Borshard’s music and art. ::

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