A vision of a near future high school classroom

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One of my concerns coming out of Friday's meeting of the South Kingstown school district's Technology Professional Development and C...

Rapid Hemostasis System for Gunshot Wounds

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The mournful side of playing wargames is that in real life the toys we play with are real and people get hurt and killed. In my readings tod...

Funders should own failed Kickstarter project IP

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It has long bothered me that established firms use Kickstarter to fund product development. Especially so in the boardgame and miniature gam...

Tutorial on getting started painting a modern army

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This is the best tutorial on getting started painting a modern army.

Benjamin Bratton: Why don't the bright futures promised in TED talks come true?

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I really like this talk. It is not an anti-TED talk but more of a bitch-slap, wake the fuck up kind of a talk. The most poignant comment I h...

A Common Core study group

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I have two boys going into public high school next year and I am concerned. When I first heard about the Common Core educational standards I...

Installing Java 6 on OS X Mavericks

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I need to be able to build and run Java tools under Java 6. When I got my new MacBook Pro I also got an unexpected problem and that is that ...

Shane Koyczan

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To remind my sons. Shane Koyczan is brilliant. Three worthy prose poetry performances by him are Remember How We Forgot , To This Day , and ...

Not that many really good ideas worth spreading?

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My Facebook friends have been turning on TED and TEDx for a bit mostly because they have been pulling talks that don't fall within the t...

W.A.I.T

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When wanting to talk WAIT: That is, ask the question "Why am I talking?"

Non-NISO duration standard

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My peers have adopted the following non- NISO duration standard: Shortly is less than 17 mins or 29 mins. In-a-bit is less than 29 min...

Too little skeuomorphism!

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I find iOS 7's UI boring rather than utilitarian and/or minimalistic. I am, frankly, surprised at my reaction to this utilitarianism as ...

Shipping container building inspiration

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Found at http://cubiclerefugee.tumblr.com/post/596714844

I am Geordi LaForge. Really!?

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Your results: You are Geordi LaForge. You work well with others and often fix problems quickly. Your romantic relationships are often bungl...

Using a compound index to reduce lock timeouts with MySql 5.5

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If you use MySql 5.5 and have a hot table where updates and inserts fail due to lock timeout then the following will be of interest. The SQL...

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My public library (and, I am guessing, so does yours) uses X's library catalog web application. If free time were more I would enumerate...

Chain of Command and the storm in a tea cup.

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I took down my post about my objection to having advertising in the opening pages of the Chain of Command rules book. While I continue to o...

Clipping my magpie wings & I healing my crow wings.

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I deactivated my Facebook account. I deleted my Instapaper account. I deleted my (RSS reader) goread.io account. I deleted my Delicious acco...

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I don't customize my Mac very much. Too much bad experience from my thirty years of personal computer support. So when I do add a custom...

Developers and Depression

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I work in an industry whose participants have little connection to their own behavioral and emotional life. I consider myself an escapee mor...