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New BMW - 9.0-liter V16 Rolls-Royce 100EX |
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| Topic: Recreation |
12:49 pm EDT, Jul 20, 2004 |
] Starting the 9.0-liter, 64-valve, naturally aspirated
] all-aluminum V16 engine, the sound is of a brilliantly
] machined instrument, here with 16 silky-smooth throats
] talking. Frankly, 600 horsepower feels conservative and
] wed guess at a 0-to-60-mph time in the five-second
] neighborhood. You can only drive this with a tuxedo on and a bottle of Grey Poupon. New BMW - 9.0-liter V16 Rolls-Royce 100EX |
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What's the big idea? Toward a pedagogy of idea power |
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| Topic: Society |
11:06 am EDT, Jul 19, 2004 |
One can take two approaches to renovating School -- or indeed anything else. The problem-solving approach identifies the many problems that afflict individual schools and tries to solve them. A systemic approach requires one to step back from the immediate problems and develop an understanding of how the whole thing works. Educators faced with day-to-day operation of schools are forced by circumstances to rely on problem solving for local fixes. They do not have time for "big ideas." This essay offers a big idea in a reflexive way: the most neglected big idea is the very idea of bigness of ideas. In brief, when ideas go to school they lose their power, thus creating a challenge for those who would improve learning to find ways to re-empower them. This need not be so. What I am suggesting here is a program of idea work for educators. Of course it is harder to think about ideas than to bring a programming language into a classroom. You have to mess with actual ideas. But this is the kind of hard that will make teaching more interesting, just as idea work will do this for learning. An article by Semour Papert published in a special issue of the IBM Systems Journal about the MIT Media Laboratory. What's the big idea? Toward a pedagogy of idea power |
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Metro officer dies while in Michigan |
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9:36 am EDT, Jul 16, 2004 |
] 38-year-old Scott Baswell was diving with a group of
] people in Lake Michigan on Wednesday when something went
] wrong. Scotty Baswell will be missed by many people. Metro officer dies while in Michigan |
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11:25 am EDT, Jul 14, 2004 |
] The Poly Play videogame was Eastern Bloc's answer to the
] capitalist's Pac Man but resembles something more like on
] old-fashioned TV set in a tall wooden cabinet. I guess my stand ups are in better shape than this. Fancy a game, comrade? |
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Is it Lies and Crap that wins? |
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3:10 am EDT, Jul 13, 2004 |
] Traditional concepts of scale economies applied to
] production--the more steel you made, the more cheaply you
] could make each additional ton, because fixed costs can
] be spread. Much of the path-dependence literature is
] concerned with economies of consumption, where a good
] becomes cheaper or more valuable to the consumer as more
] other people also have it; if lots of people have DOS
] computers, then more software will be available for such
] machines, for instance, which makes DOS computers better
] for consumers. This sort of "network externality" is even
] more important when literal networks are involved, as
] with phones or fax machines, where the value of the good
] depends in part on how many other people you can connect
] to. an interesting discussion of market dependancies, false memes, and other nefarious imperfections which seem to dominate us. Is it Lies and Crap that wins? |
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A PC Pioneer Decries the State of Computing |
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3:36 pm EDT, Jul 12, 2004 |
] But a man like this cannot be dismissed merely because he
] occasionally creeps toward arrogance. What's much more
] important is that he does not merely complain. He has a
] vision and a team working to bring his alternate vision
] to reality. a really crappy article about a really great guy. it would've been nice to actually get more meat about what Alan is decrying. A PC Pioneer Decries the State of Computing |
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HBS Working Knowledge: Technology: Ten Principles of IT Governance |
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| Topic: Technology |
6:35 pm EDT, Jul 8, 2004 |
] You've invested heavily in technology, but where is
] the payoff? This excerpt from IT Governance, a new book
] published by HBS Press, distills keys to creating greater
] value from IT. Blogged for future reference. HBS Working Knowledge: Technology: Ten Principles of IT Governance |
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For those about to spook. We salute you. |
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| Topic: Technology |
7:40 pm EDT, Jul 5, 2004 |
It pleases me greatly that counter surveilance is becoming mainstream and affordable. For those about to spook. We salute you. |
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