http://www.edtags.org/ http://www.edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://www.edtags.org/bookmarks.php/battis Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/ Style sheets galore. battis Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:55:29 +0000 http://www.infinitethinking.org/2007/07/pe-geek-boys-sports-and-wikis.html 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" [...] battis Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:00:50 +0000 wiki physical education pe innovation education community http://lifehacker.com/software/ultranewb/a-beginners-guide-to-bittorrent-285489.php 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 [...] battis Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:09:24 +0000 bittorrent explanation peer-to-peer file sharing network http://lifehacker.com/software/technophilia/where-to-find-public-records-online-280785.php 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. battis Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:52:53 +0000 public records primary sources government search web free http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/07/let-train-wreck-begin.html 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. battis Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:13:32 +0000 olpc one laptop per child technology developing countries poverty education intel http://tametheweb.com/2007/07/dewey_discord_in_wsj.html Fascinating article that features Jessamyn West, Sarah Houghton-Jan, Karen Schneider and Michael Casey and other librarians weighing in on Maricopa County's Perry Branch Library that opened without using Dewey to organize the collection. battis Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:15:20 +0000 http://harpers.org/archive/2007/07/hbc-90000601 A wide variety of discussions of and arguments against executive privilege. battis Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:52:28 +0000 executive privilege george w. bush politics congress constitution law government opinion impeachment http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3387681 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. battis Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:39:40 +0000 news intellectual property copyright extortion prison jailbreak scheme humor http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2007/07/remake-the-star.html 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.") 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. battis Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:14:38 +0000 art van gogh second life machinima visualization video http://www.erikjheels.com/2007-07-18-drawing-that-explains-copyright-law.html 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. battis Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:11:45 +0000 drawing intellectual property copyright law fair use http://pressesc.com/01184778212_qrbgs 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. battis Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:03:15 +0000 random numbers computer science science math quantum physics http://simon.incutio.com/notes/2006/summit/schachter.txt Interesting thoughts and musings from the founder of del.icio.us battis Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:37:38 +0000 http://globalnerdy.com/2007/07/18/laws-of-software-development/ 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. battis Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:37:22 +0000 software programming science development laws humor http://www.openlibrary.org/ What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book—a key part of our planet's cultural legacy. battis Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:15:36 +0000 library social tagging open source web tool public domain intellectual property culture resource http://www.galaxyzoo.org/ Help identify galaxies with your spare wet-ware cycles. battis Sun, 15 Jul 2007 06:58:22 +0000 pattern recognition patterns galaxies astronomy science physics web tool idle