Watching calligraphic theater and paint dry

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Watching 1) calligraphic theater and 2) paint dry. Street typography from Tom Williams on Vimeo .

Letter to the Editor: The current pilot project does not address the 1:1 issues

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This week's South County Independent newspaper has an article on the school district's 1:1 initiative. Unfortunately, there is a gr...

James Burke and transitioning from a world designed to mitigate scarcity to one of controlling abundance

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James Burke's TV series Connections made a significant impression on me when I was a teenager and has continued into my adulthood. My w...

What if by the fall of 2015 the high school had a high bandwidth & low latency cell data service?

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What if by the fall of 2015 South Kingstown, RI and the high school (in particular) had a high bandwidth & low latency cell data service...

PARCC and the image of the assembly line worker.

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When you visit the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers website and the first image you see is When I see this ...

Asked to continue to be involved with 1:1

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I have been asked to continue to be involved with the South Kingstown School District's one-to-one initiative (1:1). I am not sure how t...

Prime with white and wash with black

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I was watching 12 Different Ways to Prime Your Wargaming Miniatures for inspiration -- aka the continuation of my procrastination and my li...

Testing for the presence of a value

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Back to some geek content... How often have you seen code like the following? if ( foo.getBar() != null ) { /* use the value */ } The c...

The pilot does not address any significant issues raised by one-to-one

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Well, I resigned from the South Kingstown school district's Technology Professional Development and Curriculum subcommittee after only t...

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...