Present Tensed

Found on Web Between December 6th and December 12th, 2009

Here are some links that I’ve tagged recently. This set is from Decem­ber 6th through Decem­ber 12th:

• Stuff Hip­sters Hate — | humor cul­ture soci­ety hip­ster
• Edi­to­r­ial — Can We Afford It? — NYTimes.com — A tril­lion dol­lars is still a lot of money, but it needs to be put in some per­spec­tive. Extend­ing Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy would very likely cost $4 tril­lion over the next decade. And the Medicare pre­scrip­tion drug ben­e­fit, passed by a Republican-dominated Con­gress, is expected to cost at least $700 bil­lion over the next decade. Unlike this health care reform, it became law with no off­set­ting cuts and very lit­tle pro­vi­sion to pay for it. | health­care pol­i­tics
• Cre­ate Your Own Sun Jar: Life­hacker Edi­tion — DIY Cre­ations — Life­hacker — | art howto diy
• Dig­i­tal Domain — AT — When I set about look­ing for inde­pen­dent data, how­ever, to con­firm the supe­rior per­for­mance of Verizon’s net­work, I was aston­ished to dis­cover that I had man­aged to get things exactly wrong. D … | apple att iphone tech
• Gore 2000: Gore as Pres­i­dent — An Alter­nate His­tory — Newsweek 2010 — via 2010.newsweek.com … | algore fic­tion his­tory humor pol­i­tics
• Blue Whales Are Chang­ing Their Tunes, But Why? — Sci­ence — io9 — via io9.com … | ani­mals lan­guage music sci­ence whales
• Op-Ed Colum­nist — In Search of Edu­ca­tion Lead­ers — NYTimes.com — | edu­ca­tion acad­e­mia education_reform
• The Hype Machine / Lat­est Songs From MP3 & Music Blogs / — | mp3 music blog
• Fast-food stan­dards for meat top those for school lunches — USATODAY.com — | edu­ca­tion food law
• CUIP Tech EXPO 2009! — Home — | cuip expo 2009
• Free Speech (Recog­ni­tion) — (From the Desk of David Pogue) NYTimes.com — What I don’t under­stand is: Why don’t these same peo­ple worry that Ver­i­zon or AT&T is lis­ten­ing in to their cell­phone calls every sin­gle day? Why don’t they worry that Mas­ter­Card is peek­ing into their buy­ing habits? How do they know Microsoft and Apple aren’t slurp­ing down pri­vate doc­u­ments off the hard drive and laugh­ing their heads off?

  I mean, if you’re gonna be para­noid, at least be ratio­nal about it. | tech iphone free speech

• windows-7-complaints-begin: Per­sonal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance — Com­mon Win­dows 7 upgrade dif­fi­cul­ties are listed in this arti­cle | windows7
• Asian Stu­dents Under Assault | Cover Story | News and Opin­ion | Philadel­phia Weekly — | philadel­phia edu­ca­tion vio­lence
• ‘Invic­tus’ hero recalls day Man­dela trans­formed South Africa — CNN.com — In his book, Car­lin described Pien­aar as the “big blonde son of apartheid,” a 6-foot-4, 240-pound man who grew up wor­ship­ping the vio­lent sport of rugby, an obses­sion for many Afrikan­ers. Rugby is known as “the opium of the Afrikaner,” says Car­lin. | southafrica man­dela films apartheid
• …My heart’s in Accra » Could Rick War­ren stop Uganda’s anti-gay leg­is­la­tion? — That’s the hope of Rev. Kapya Kaoma, an Epis­co­palian Priest from Zam­bia, the author of a new report from Polit­i­cal Research Asso­ciates, which traces a wave of homo­pho­bia on the African con­ti­nent to the efforts of con­ser­v­a­tive evan­gel­i­cal pas­tors in the US. In a con­fer­ence call with mem­bers of the media today, Kaoma declared that, “The US cul­ture wars are being exported to Africa. They’re hav­ing an impact not just in the US, but also amongst African Chris­tians.” | uganda africa reli­gion pol­i­tics
• Top News — Can gam­ing change edu­ca­tion? — New research on gam­ing design and brain plas­tic­ity offers more per­spec­tives on edu­ca­tional gam­ing | gam­ing edu­ca­tion research education_reform
• GTA — List | Diigo — Lucy Gray’s lists of resources men­tioned at Google Teacher Acad­e­mies | lists google teach­ing resources
• Broad­cast LIVE with USTREAM Mobile in just sec­onds! Down­load our phone appli­ca­tion to stream video with USTREAM’s mobile soft­ware to the Inter­net for free. — | iphone app stream­ing video
• The Answer Sheet — Will­ing­ham: An online teach­ing sur­prise — For younger stu­dents, a care­taker (usu­ally the mother) is on hand, and so the teacher does not need to do a lot of prompt­ing to keep the child on task. For older chil­dren, the chief dis­trac­tion of the classroom—other students—is not present. Teach­ers don’t have to nag stu­dents. | online learn­ing edu­ca­tion
• Keep­Vid: Down­load and save any video from Youtube, Dai­ly­mo­tion, Meta­cafe, iFilm and more! — SR: This is an altern­tive to Zamzar that has been rec­om­mended for Youtube down­load­ing… | down­load youtube online video con­ver­sion
• 500 Inter­nal Server Error — 500 Inter­nal Server Error | none
• All Songs Con­sid­ered Lis­ten­ers Pick The Best Music Of 2009 : NPR — | music 2009 lists
• AFP: South African actors ‘want Hud­son out of Man­dela film’ — | southafrica films man­dela
• Tweet in Klin­gon — via tweetinklingon.com “Your mother has smooth fore­head!” … | humor klin­gon lan­guage startrek twit­ter
• Bart’s Black­board — | thes­imp­sons humor art the.simpsons
• What Have We Learned from OLPC? — OLPC News — | olpc
• Wix.com: Cre­ate a Free Web­site , Free Flash Web­site Builder — | web­sites flash
• Kathy Schrock’s Kaf­feeklatsch: Want 25 green screens in your com­puter lab? — On using the green­screen fea­tures in imovie and pho­to­booth… | imovie green­screen howto
• The Harlem Children’s Zone — 60 Min­utes — CBS News — SR: The tape of the 60 min­utes bit on the HCZ | harlem_childen’s_zone
• Class­room Archi­tect — Tool to help teach­ers map out their class­room setups | class­room fur­ni­ture
• Improv­ing edu­ca­tion: What to teach? | The Econ­o­mist — | stan­dard­sna­tional standardized_testing his­tory edu­ca­tion education_reform
• Nexty — | to-do webapp web2.0 soft­ware gtd

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