June 2009
16 posts
Sexting Code List Is Useless at Best
I know many teachers and parents live in fear of the Sexting epididemic. It is scary to think that your child or your students are participating in dangerous or risky behavior. It’s their job to stress us out and our job to worry about them.
However I think the risky texting fear is getting out of hand. The people at Fox News put up a list of the secrect teenage text language to try to...
Ahmadinejad sucks at Photoshop →
“The crowd in this pro-Ahmadinejad rally appears to have been clone-tool enhanced.
اضافه شدن طرفداران محمود احمدي نژاد با فوتوشاپ روزنامه كيهان
Mirror
(Thanks, Yishay!)” From Cory Doctorow
Sugar is Sweet (Ars Technica) →
Sugar on a Stick brings sweet taste of Linux to classrooms
“The official release of Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) is a significant mile stone for the Sugar project. In this release, the platform exhibits a much higher level of refinement and maturity than the previous versions, which were shipped on OLPC’s XO laptops. The user interface is smoother, the individual components seem better...
GPS Shoes: What could go wrong?
Social Networking Shoe: But Can It Make Calls?
“Isaac Daniel poses with his latest GPS-enabled shoe, which uses Bluetooth to broadcast the wearer’s location to his/her cell phone and, from there, select friends’ cell phones or Facebook.” from Boing Boing Gadgets
Does this seem like a product that could be easily used against the user? Maybe I am just easily spooked by...
Access to Internet declared basic human right
Top French court rips heart out of Sarkozy internet law
France’s highest court has inflicted an embarrassing blow to President Sarkozy by cutting the heart out of a law that was supposed to put France in the forefront of the fight against piracy on the internet.
The Constitutional Council declared access to the internet to be a basic human right, directly opposing the key points of Mr...
Web 2.0 is Millionth English Word
‘Millionth English word’ declared
A US web monitoring firm has declared the millionth English word to be Web 2.0, a term for the latest generation of web products and services.
Global Language Monitor (GLM) searches the internet for newly coined terms, and once a word or phrase has been used 25,000 times, it recognises it.
GLM said Web 2.0 beat out the terms Jai ho, N00b and slumdog...
Nintendo DS Education Package (big in Japan)
Nintendo sneaks out new school edition DS: DS Classroom will be teacher’s favourite little helper
“The Nintendo DS Classroom <original pressrelease in Japanese> features no new hardware, but instead consists of a package of several handhelds, a PC and newly developed educational software for the DS.” from TechRadar.com
Supposedly the DS bundle will contain no games...
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TftF 111: Facebook is Dead
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Coming Soon: Facebook Usernames Facebook’s Fatal Error by Douglas Rushkoff Bing overtakes Yahoo in global search wars In matter of days, Microsoft’s search passes Yahoo for No. 2 spot behind Google http://mediasquat.net/ Raising Kids Who Can Thrive Amid Chaos in Their Careers. (thanks to @tonnet and AssortedStuff) Evidence of the importance of media literacy ...
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TftF 110: Thomas "cmdln" Gideon (Linux in the...
Audio Link: I had the chance to sit down again with hacker, programer, social media philosopher, and all around great guy Thomas Gideon. Thomas is the mind behind one of my favorite podcasts “The Command Line Podcast” where he discusses technology and it’s effects on everyday culture. Links:
Tom’s Podcast - http://thecommandline.net Flashbake -...
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TftF 109: Atoms to Bits and Back
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Textbook companies should make their material more accessible and affordable from Grown Up Digital “Textbook publishers today are where the music record labels were 15 years ago. They foisted overpriced CDs on to the public and made it impossible to buy just one song. Eventually consumers rebelled, and the industry paid a heavy price for its obstinacy.” Ubunchu! episode...