Present Tensed

Found on Web Between January 23rd and January 30th, 2010

Here are some links that I’ve tagged recently. This set is from Jan­u­ary 23rd through Jan­u­ary 30th:

• 15 Must-Have Web Apps for Stu­dents | Dig­i­tizd — | webapp web2.0 soft­ware free
• Sta­tus THIS - — | blogs web­comics comics humor
• What Does It Mean to Be Well Edu­cated? — | edu­ca­tion phi­los­o­phy
• Tom’s Plan­ner | Gantt Chart Soft­ware | Faster than Excel eas­ier than MS Project — | web­ware pro­ject­man­age­ment
• A Con­trac­tual Solu­tion to Cit­i­zens United — Freako­nom­ics Blog — NYTimes.com — In a sense, we’re just try­ing take the “per­son­hood” of cor­po­ra­tions seri­ously. The Supreme Court has granted cor­po­ra­tions free speech rights, because the law treats these arti­fi­cial cre­ations as legal per­sons. But these pow­er­ful and publicly-traded fic­tional peo­ple should at least also be sub­ject to the same anti-corruption restric­tions as real peo­ple. Cur­rent law pro­hibits fed­eral con­trac­tors (and those that are try­ing to become one) from directly or indi­rectly mak­ing con­tri­bu­tions to polit­i­cal par­ties and can­di­dates. | pol­i­tics sco­tus law gov­ern­ment
• Mus­lim inven­tions that shaped the mod­ern world — CNN.com — | his­tory islam
• Microsoft Shared­View | Microsoft Con­nect — | free win­dows screen_share
• SOTU as National Rorschach Test — | pol­i­tics psy­chol­ogy
• World Comics — | comics activism inter­na­tional
• ‘People’s His­tory’ Author Howard Zinn Dies at 87 — NYTimes.com — | howard_zinn obit
• The United States Redrawn with 50 Equal-Population States — Neatorama — | maps pol­i­tics
• People’s His­to­rian and Pro­gres­sive Hero Howard Zinn Dies | Civil Lib­er­ties | Alter­Net — | his­tory howard_zinn obit
• How to use a semi­colon — The Oat­meal — | lan­guage howto
• ‘Obama the pop­ulist’ doesn’t ring true — CNN.com — | pol­i­tics obama
• Why the Love/Hate Rela­tion­ship with TFA? | LFA: Join The Con­ver­sa­tion — Pub­lic School Insights — We Still See Teach­ing as Mis­sion­ary Work, Not as a Pro­fes­sion. | edu­ca­tion teach_for_america_-_TFA
• Con­gress Finances Pro­gram to Use Tech­nol­ogy in Edu­ca­tion — NYTimes.com — “It’s time that edu­ca­tion had the equiv­a­lent of what the National Sci­ence Foun­da­tion does for sci­ence, Darpa does for the national defense and what N.I.H. does for health,” Mr. Gross­man said in an inter­view. He and Mr. Minow, senior coun­sel at the law firm Sid­ley Austin, will be the co-chairmen of the non­profit orga­ni­za­tion, along with Anne G. Mur­phy, for­mer direc­tor of the Amer­i­can Arts Alliance. | news edu­ca­tion federal_government grants
• The Haiti Haters — | his­tory haiti cur­rentevents
• BBC News — Can Win­nie Mandela’s hero­ism out­shine her crimes? — | man­dela southafrica
• New fast track to CPS top-flight schools? :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Edu­ca­tion — ECONOMIC DIVERSITY | Enroll­ment sys­tem can hurt poor kids in gen­tri­fied areas | cps news chicago edu­ca­tion
• Dab­ble­board — Online white­board for draw­ing — | mindmap­ping col­lab­o­ra­tion
• Who Will Pay For A Longer School Day Or Year? — Dis­trict 299: Chicago Pub­lic Schools Blog — “Com­pared to national aver­ages, the Chicago Pub­lic Schools school year is 10 days shorter and the school day 45 min­utes shorter. Research shows low-income stu­dents stand to gain the most from extra learn­ing time, and dis­trict and state offi­cials are plan­ning bids to win fed­eral funds to pay for it.” | cps edu­ca­tion chicago
• FAQ You « Word­press plu­g­ins // Trendw­erk — | wo word­press plu­gin
• Trapped father sur­vives with help of phone app — CNN.com — Once in the ele­va­tor, he used the app — called “Pocket First Aid & CPR” from Jive Media — to tend to his injuries. Wool­ley said his phone “was like a high-tech ver­sion of a Swiss Army knife that enabled me to treat my own injuries, track time, stay awake and stay alive.” | haiti iphone health
• Bad Astron­omy | Dis­cover Mag­a­zine — | astron­omy sci­ence
• Star Wars Action Fig­ures Doing What They Do Best. — | star­wars pho­tog­ra­phy blog
• Edu­ca­tion and poverty: School’s out | The Econ­o­mist — | edu­ca­tion data
• Econ­o­mists start to con­sider that money can’t buy hap­pi­ness | Busi­ness | The Observer — This is an area some econ­o­mists have tried to deal with for sev­eral decades, by attempt­ing to sub­tract from GDP fig­ures the social or envi­ron­men­tal con­se­quences of growth. Clean­ing up an oil spill counts towards GDP, but the envi­ron­men­tal dam­age it causes does not; pump­ing the oil out of the ground counts as eco­nomic activ­ity, but the resource deple­tion it implies is not accounted for. | eco­nom­ics uk
• 101 Tech­niques for a Pow­er­ful CMS using Word­Press — Noupe — | word­press cms
• Bru­tal­ity charged as Pitts­burgh police defend ‘fist strikes’ on teen — CNN.com — | law.enforcement race.relations law crime
• Easily-Viewable School Clos­ings Plan Pre­sen­ta­tion — Dis­trict 299: Chicago Pub­lic Schools Blog — | news cps

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