Present Tensed

Found on Web Between November 22nd and November 27th, 2009

Here are some links that I’ve tagged recently. This set is from Novem­ber 22nd through Novem­ber 27th:

• Show Me the Num­bers: 7 Handy Hacks to Dis­play Your Best Num­bers on Your Blog — Word­Press MU and Bud­dy­Press plu­g­ins, themes, sup­port, tips and how to’s — | word­press php howto
• Indexed — | humor art blog
• 61 Free Apps We’re Most Thank­ful For — Thanks­giv­ing — Life­hacker — | life­hacker free soft­ware web­ware open-source
• NM researcher devel­ops trees for dry, rural areas — Yahoo! News — Not only do spe­cially devel­oped trees and hedges improve the envi­ron­ment, but they are also being used as tools for rural eco­nomic devel­op­ment, O’Neill said. | envi­ron­ment sci­ence rpcv
• Wired Presents 100 Hot Hol­i­day Gifts, Plus a $10,000 Con­test | Gad­get Lab | Wired.com — | list merch
• The Best Free Word­Press Themes of 2009 | Web Design Ledger — | word­press themes
• Cook­ing For One: A Priv­i­lege, Not A Chore : NPR — | food
• Repub­li­cans con­sid­er­ing ide­o­log­i­cal purity test for can­di­dates — Yahoo! News — Mean­while, lib­eral blog­ger Steve Benen won­ders if Rea­gan him­self would even pass the 80% thresh­old man­dated by the res­o­lu­tion bear­ing his name, not­ing that Rea­gan “voted for sev­eral tax increases, began the mod­ern era of mas­sive fed­eral debt, ran huge deficits, and approved an immi­gra­tion mea­sure the far-right still resents.” | pol­i­tics
• Man mar­ries a videogame — Plugged In — Yahoo! Games — Appar­ently, a Japan­ese gamer known as ‘Sal9000’ was offi­cially wed to Nene Ane­gasaki, one of the game’s three vir­tual girl­friends, in what must have been the weird­est cer­e­mony in the his­tory of cer­e­monies | rela­tion­ships soci­ety mar­riage japan
• Mod­ern Love — The Bound­aries of a Breakup — NYTimes.com — | face­book rela­tion­ships soci­ety
• Tech advances in the class­room — baltimoresun.com — hand­held click­ers in bal­ti­more | click­ers gad­get bal­ti­more
• The Inno­v­a­tive Edu­ca­tor: 21st Cen­tury Edu­ca­tors Don’t Say, “Hand It In.” They say, “Pub­lish It! — | projects class­room ideas
• Clergy abuse vic­tims crit­i­cize RI bishop — Yahoo! News — “He claims that it’s impor­tant that we pro­tect the unborn. But it’s equally as impor­tant to pro­tect those who have been born and those young chil­dren who have been raped and sodom­ized by cler­ics and priests. But yet he seems to pro­tect those cler­ics,” said Ruth Moore, of Hull, Mass. | reli­gion pol­i­tics
• Deals.Woot : One Com­mu­nity, Every Deal ℠ — | deal merch gad­get
• Illi­nois Pol­icy Insti­tute — Blog– Online Learn­ing: IL the Worst of the Best — | illi­nois online charter_schools learn­ing
• Clout St: McKenna’s mis­lead­ing cam­paign ad on Quinn — It’s not the first time that a Repub­li­can statewide can­di­date for gov­er­nor in Illi­nois has resorted to the use of mis­lead­ing news­pa­per attri­bu­tions. In his failed 2006 race for the GOP nom­i­na­tion for gov­er­nor, busi­ness­man James D. Ober­weis used four fake head­lines from real news­pa­pers across the state in his TV adver­tis­ing. | pol­i­tics illi­nois
• White House Begins Cam­paign to Pro­mote Sci­ence and Math Edu­ca­tion — NYTimes.com — To improve sci­ence and math­e­mat­ics edu­ca­tion for Amer­i­can chil­dren, the White House is recruit­ing Elmo and Big Bird, video game pro­gram­mers and thou­sands of sci­en­tists. | edu­ca­tion education_reform STEM
• DML­cen­tral — | digital_media edu­ca­tion education_reform social_media foun­da­tion macarthur
• The eas­i­est way to print pho­tos on can­vas | Can­vasPop — | print­ing art pho­tog­ra­phy
• Unshelved, the library comic strip — | library lit­er­a­ture comics humor
• Polit­i­cal views may skew per­cep­tion of skin tone, new study finds | The Uni­ver­sity of Chicago — While some of the pho­tos were unal­tered, the researchers dig­i­tally light­ened or dark­ened Obama’s skin tone in oth­ers (unbe­knownst to the research par­tic­i­pants). The researchers report that self-described lib­eral stu­dents tended to judge light­ened pho­tos of Pres­i­dent Obama as most rep­re­sen­ta­tive of him, while self-described con­ser­v­a­tive stu­dents more fre­quently picked dark­ened pho­tos. | race.relations psy­chol­ogy
• 15 Inter­est­ing Cold War Vin­tage Ads — Oddee.com — | his­tory art pol­i­tics pro­pa­ganda
• Super­heroes and Vil­lains Try to Out-Emo Vam­pires — | comics art humor
• National Lab Day — “Encour­ag­ing young peo­ple to be mak­ers of things, not just con­sumers of things.” — Pres­i­dent Barack Obama | sci­ence edu­ca­tion
• Soo­cial • Hassle-free con­tacts — | web2.0 email con­tacts
• African lead­ers advise Bono on reform of U2 — | music humor u2 bono
• ‘Lost Boys’ find call­ing — chicagotribune.com — In the sum­mer of 2007, the for­mer Lost Boys — Mayuol, Gabriel Bol Deng and Koor Garang — did travel back to Sudan for the first time in 20 years, on an unfor­get­table jour­ney that reopened wounds of the past and pro­vided new vision for the future. They form part of a new move­ment of Lost Boys who have returned to their coun­try to help rebuild, find­ing that a highly pub­li­cized peace agree­ment failed to alle­vi­ate poverty and suf­fer­ing. | sudan africa doc­u­men­tary films
• 500 Inter­nal Server Error — 500 Inter­nal Server Error | none
• Get a cool back­ground for your Twit­ter pro­file | Web­ware — CNET — | howto twit­ter
• Pogo­plug Per­sonal Stor­age Cloud Updated: Now With More Mul­ti­me­dia | Cult of Mac — | tech merch gad­get
• How to Man­age a Group Project in Google Wave — Google Wave — Life­hacker — | google wave

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