Kristian Still teaches 16 - 19 year old young men in a sports course at
Tauton's College in the UK, which is designed to encourage male
learners to go on to higher or extended education. The course uses
their interest in sports to help them stay engaged and pursue additional
academic achievements.Kristian uses the tools of Web 2.0 as an
essential way to do this. He is the "P.E. Geek" [...]
Despite the fact that BitTorrent has been around for a good 6 years now,
the lightning fast file sharing protocol hasn't completely taken off in the
mainstream. Since we post a decent amount about BitTorrent around
here, we figured it was just time we put out a beginner's guide to
BitTorrent. This is the guide you can send to your friend next time he
gets that glassy look in his eyes [...]
You can use the web to find lots of things: information, videos, books,
music, games, and yes, even public records. While our most private
information can (usually) not be found online, you can track down items
like birth certificates, marriage and divorce information, obituaries and
licenses on the web. Keep reading to learn where to find public records
online.
The world-changing hundred-dollar laptop is going into mass production, which means that soon one of two things will happen. Either a) a huge number of these things will get shipped into developing countries and begin to crash and pile up, broken, in heaps; or b) a huge number of these things will pile up in some warehouse because the orders still aren't coming in.
A wide variety of discussions of and arguments against executive privilege.
Forget about digging a hole with a spoon to escape from prison. Four
federal inmates are accused of going above and beyond that call. The
four were indicted Tuesday on allegations that they copyrighted their
names, then demanded millions of dollars from prison officials for using
the names without authorization.
What Robbie Dingo has done is something Akira Kurosawa only envisioned: brought Van Gogh's masterpiece to rich, three dimensional life, and for a brief moment, recast it as a living place. (Brief, for the construction was always intended as a temporary project, "so it's all been swept away now, leaving only the film behind.")Â But for a breathtaking moment (this is my favorite shot, above) you get to the most iconic of starry nights recast under the rising sun.
On 10/19/05, one of my MIT friend's daughter shadowed me for a day at work as part of a school project. One of the good things about spending time with children is that it forces you to explain this in simple terms. That day, I drew lots of drawings. So here is another installment Erik explaining things with drawings.
A 'true' random number generator that relies on the unpredictable quantum process of photon emission has gone online providing academic and scientific community access to true random numbers free of charge.
Inspired by Phil Haack’s article 19 Eponymous Laws of Software Development, I decided to collect laws, axioms and rules pertaining to mainstream software development and put them in a nice, easy-to-read table.
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Kristian Still teaches 16 - 19 year old young men in a sports course at Tauton's College in the UK, which is designed to encourage male learners to go on to higher or extended education. The course uses their interest in sports to help them stay engaged and pursue additional academic achievements.Kristian uses the tools of Web 2.0 as an essential way to do this. He is the "P.E. Geek" [...]
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