Gack! According to this “CNN article”:http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/01/31/students.amendment.ap/index.html, high school kids don’t understand what the First Amendment protects:
_when told of the exact text of the First Amendment, more than one in three high school students said it goes “too far” in the rights it guarantees. Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to [...]
Posted by Chris in Education on January 31st, 2005 | Comments Off
I just accidentally found a new blog that I really liked called Gray Matters. It’s a bit more Christian-oriented than the blogs I normally go to, but I have to love this guy as he describes his utter frustration of being told not to quote Deepok Chopra at his Bible study group (”He’s not Christian, [...]
Posted by Deana in Blog on January 29th, 2005 | Comments Off
The past few days it’s seemed like the Intarweb has been trying especially hard to make me angry. I was able to ignore most of the “disturbing”:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/01/26/MNGKQB0FSQ1.DTL “reports”:http://www.fordvehicles.com/autoshow/concept/synus/ up to now, but this one has me hoppin’ mad:
_The nation’s new “education secretary”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Spellings “denounced PBS on Tuesday”:http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3009795 for spending public money on a cartoon with [...]
Posted by Chris in Education on January 26th, 2005 | 13 Comments »
Boing Boing just “reminded me of a song”:http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/25/wiki_wiki_wiki.html I used to love growing up. (John, do you remember this one?) The “lyrics”:http://www.weddingvendors.com/music/lyrics/song-937.html are just beautiful. Not only do they contain gems like “I learned to rock like “dolomite”:http://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/carbonat/dolomite/dolomite.htm,” but there’s even a duel between our DJ hero and Superman, apparently moonlighting as [...]
Posted by Chris in Music on January 25th, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Thanks to Prince for that. Turns out that I’m actually 29! Woot! (and no, that’s not my shoe size)
This is what I’m talking about:
What Age Do You Act?
Posted by Deana in Fun on January 21st, 2005 | 3 Comments »
Why is “Dick Cheney smiling”:http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1151&slug=US%20Iran?
See “Iraq”:http://www.globalspin.com/mt/archives/000470.html for details.
Let’s hope America (and Congress) won’t be fooled so easily this time…
Posted by Chris in Politics on January 21st, 2005 | Comments Off
Did you read science fiction as a child? If so, take a look at this “SF Reading Habits Questionnaire”:http://sfquestions.blogspot.com/. It might be interesting to know who “our people” are…
“The purpose of this questionnaire is to provide material for a book called (provisionally), The Inter-Galactic Playground of Children’s Science Fiction to be published by [...]
Posted by Chris in Literature on January 20th, 2005 | 1 Comment »
News that Virgin Atlantic is planning to offer “private double beds on the new A380″:http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-01/20/content_2485526.htm got me thinking. It really would be nice to spend most of a 14-hour flight sleeping in a real bed, kind of like travelling by train. The way it is now, the first and last day of any [...]
Posted by Chris in Travel on January 20th, 2005 | Comments Off
Just found this neat article by an Asian-American woman partnered with a European-American man. One child has the dad’s name while the other has her name. It’s an interesting article and the author bio at the end is especially fun.
Posted by Deana in Culture on January 19th, 2005 | Comments Off
Who says that beauty can’t be truth, that art can’t be science? It seems that a scientist at LSU has “found the long-lost sky catalog of Hipparchus”:http://www.astronomy.com/default.aspx?c=a&id=2773 in plain sight. Specifically, it’s on a statue called the “Famese Atlas”:http://sights.seindal.dk/img/orig/9456.jpg, a depiction of Atlas holding up the sky. Apparently the sculptor used one [...]
Posted by Chris in Science on January 18th, 2005 | Comments Off
