Present Tensed

Found on Web Between November 19th and November 22nd, 2009

Here are some links that I’ve tagged recently. This set is from Novem­ber 19th through Novem­ber 22nd:

• The Ger­vais Prin­ci­ple, Or The Office Accord­ing to “The Office” — So why is pro­mot­ing over-performing losers log­i­cal? The sim­ple rea­son is that if you over-perform at the loser level, it is clear that you are an idiot. You’ve already made a bad bar­gain, and now you’re deliv­er­ing more value than you need to, mak­ing your bar­gain even worse. | busi­ness soci­ety humor psy­chol­ogy
• The Dif­fer­en­tia­tor — | cur­ricu­lum lesson-plans differentiated_instruction
• The Illus­trated Man: How LED Tat­toos Could Make Your Skin a Screen | Gad­get Lab | Wired.com — | sci­ence art elec­tron­ics tech­nol­ogy
• ‘Vomit on the table’ and speak like a 1950s hip­ster | Cul­ture | The Guardian — | humor hip­ster cul­ture his­tory lan­guage trends
• Cityscapes: Trump’s tower is now world’s sixth tallest as coun­cil changes stan­dards for tall build­ing height — In addi­tion, the Coun­cil has not changed its stan­dard that spires count in height mea­sure­ments while anten­nae, like those atop Willis Tower, do not. | chicago archi­tec­ture
• Open Books Ltd. — | chicago lit­er­a­ture lit­er­acy non­profit books
• Stun­ning Stere­oviews: His­tor­i­cal Pho­tos Show Past in 3D | Design + Ideas on WU — | 3d pho­tog­ra­phy japan his­tory
• The Good Word: Chicago’s Open Books arrives with a mis­sion | New­c­ity Lit — | chicago lit­er­a­ture non­profit lit­er­acy
• Infos­tate of Africa — The above info­graphic details some of the hap­pen­ings over the past few years in regards to infra­struc­ture improve­ment and capac­ity build­ing in Africa, par­tic­u­larly in the area of the inter­net and cost. | inter­net africa tech digital-divide maps data
• BBC News : Africa pop­u­la­tion tops a bil­lion — Africa’s pop­u­la­tion is esti­mated to reach 1.9 bil­lion by 2050, it says. | africa pop­u­la­tion
• Africa’s largest wind farm set to emerge from Kenyan desert — washingtonpost.com — In Jan­u­ary, a con­sor­tium of Dutch and Kenyan investors will begin con­struc­tion on the $760 mil­lion project, which envi­sions more than 350 wind tur­bines tow­er­ing over desert expanses near Lake Turkana in north­ern Kenya. When com­pleted in 2012, the wind farm is expected to boost the power sup­ply in this nation by almost 30 per­cent. | envi­ron­ment kenya africa
• How to Cre­ate Micro Blogs Within Word­Press « Weblog Tools Col­lec­tion — | word­press php howto
• Mini­Card Theme for Word­press – a cool free busi­ness card/social net­work theme « Blue Anvil Jour­nal — | word­press free themes
• How to Cre­ate an Author Info Sec­tion in Word­press — | howto word­press php
• tcr­BLOG: Chicago’s South Side has the nation’s second-highest unem­ploy­ment rate — 2008 Amer­i­can Com­mu­nity Sur­vey, the col­lec­tive unem­ploy­ment rate for South Side neigh­bor­hoods Auburn Gre­sham, Engle­wood, Wash­ing­ton Heights and West Engle­wood was 23.2 per­cent. | chicago south­side labor.relations stats
• CPS Teacher Absences — Search­able Data­base — FOX Chicago News — | cps data teacher_absenses
• America’s Best Place to Raise Your Kids — Busi­ness­Week — Tin­ley Park? | chicago south­side sub­ur­bia
• State of the Art — Big Sen­sors + Lit­tle Cam­eras = Amaz­ing Photo Qual­ity — NYTimes.com — | pho­tog­ra­phy tech gad­get merch
• Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism? — NYTimes.com — Saudi gov­ern­ment offi­cials, bankers and agribusi­ness exec­u­tives told an insti­tute del­e­ga­tion led by Zei­gler that they intended to spend bil­lions of dol­lars to estab­lish plan­ta­tions to pro­duce rice and other sta­ple crops in African nations like Mali, Sene­gal, Sudan and Ethiopia. | food pol­i­tics africa middle-east
• The Best Places To Find Your Next Free Book Online — Free books online — io9 — | lit­er­a­ture books free
• Cur­rents — Are Met­rics Blind­ing Our Per­cep­tion? — NYTimes.com — | soci­ety data
• Z & H Mar­ket­Cafe Info Desk — | blog chicago food hyde­park
• Inter­net Vices — Patrick Moberg — | humor face­book twit­ter youtube gmail social­me­dia inter­net
• Ani­mal Pharm by Patrick Moberg — | music art hip-hop humor
• SPIEGEL Inter­view with Umberto Eco: ‘We Like Lists Because We Don’t Want to Die’ — Ital­ian nov­el­ist and semi­oti­cian Umberto Eco, who is curat­ing a new exhi­bi­tion at the Lou­vre in Paris, talks to SPIEGEL about the place lists hold in the his­tory of cul­ture, the ways we try to avoid think­ing about death and why Google is dan­ger­ous for young peo­ple. | umberto.eco lists inter­view lit­er­a­ture
• Father Teaches his Son Klin­gon as a First Lan­guage — klin­gon — io9 — Speers claims that he spoke to his son only in Klin­gon for the first three years of the boy’s life | wtf startrek lan­guage
• Wel­come to BLAKROC — 11/27! | music
• 2009 Hol­i­day Gift Guide — The New York Times — | merch 2009
• evolution-of-superhero-movies-chart.jpg 1300×1822 pix­els — | comics films system:filetype:jpg system:media:image
• Notes: New Direc­tions in the Eco­nomic Analy­sis of Edu­ca­tion @ mfi uchicago [Present Tensed / rasml.org] — | live­blog
• Con­nected Peace Corps — Con­nect. Inform. Engage. — | peace.corps
• CPRT: The Chicago Pol­icy Research Team — The Promise Neigh­bor­hood Pro­gram — | uchicago woodlawn_promise harlem_childen’s_zone
• Cou­ple Busted for Refus­ing to Pay Tip | NBC Philadel­phia — After the $73 bill came, the group paid for food, drinks, and tax but refused to pay the tip. After explain­ing the bad ser­vice to the bar­tender in charge, Pope claimed he took their money and called police. The cou­ple was hand­cuffed and placed in the back of a police car. | food law wtf
• Leggo my Eggo! Kel­logg fights waf­fle short­age — Yahoo! Finance — Bet­ter stock up now: Kellogg’s pre­dict­ing national Eggo short­age until mid­dle of 2010 | food

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