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The Latest Philosophy | Saturday July 04, 2009 |

"Life without love is one dead end street." Carole King "The book of life is brief, and once a page is read, all but love is dead." Don McLean Modern times are difficult for lovers (see my post here )-perhaps more so than in most previous eras. These...

The Greenbelt miscellaneous | Saturday July 04, 2009 |

I had to changed my LJ password today in order to leave a comment somewhere (obnoxious sites, those that demand you have some sort of master account somewhere - I only have an LJ account so I can comment a few places...). Anyway, I was presented with this: ...

The Latest Treasury | Saturday July 04, 2009 |

Remember the tech stock bubble? Then came the real estate bubble which is still deflating. Now we see the top of the U.S. Treasury bond bubble. First, let's recall some characteristics of the bubble in tech stocks. Tech stock prices inflated to amazing...

The Latest Moonstruck; Cher; Nicolas Cage; Captain Ahab; Moby-Dick; Melville; post-traumatic embitterment disorder; anger; rage; resentment; bitterness;Steppenwolf; Hesse; psychotherapy; DSM-V; American Psychiatric Association; PTSD | Saturday July 04, 2009 |

Moonstruck (1987), starring Cher and Nick Cage, is one of my favorite movies. The screenplay by John Patrick Shanley is smart, tight and psychologically savvy. Cher is brilliant. Cage is convincingly intense and passionate. He plays a man who has lost his...

Social Networks myspace | Saturday July 04, 2009 |

A Los Angeles Second District Court of Appeal on Friday ruled in favor of social networking giant MySpace , saying that the Internet Company was ?not liable? for several reported cases of girls being raped by men they meet in the website. In its decision,...

Metrolingua Holidays | Saturday July 04, 2009 |

Tomorrow is Independence Day for the US, to commemorate the signing of the Declaration of Independence . Here's a cute video of Captain America and other superheroes celebrating it.

ReadWriteWeb Enterprise | Saturday July 04, 2009 |

In a new report issued on the first of the month, Forrester Research has asserted the importance of enterprise platforms for governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC). Pointing to big name corporate failures in the last decade, they argue that the...

Library Stuff 2.0 | Saturday July 04, 2009 |

PC World – “I hate to be constantly beating a dead browser, but news about Internet Explorer 8 keeps coming up, kind of like a day-old fish taco at Earl’s House of Chowder.”

Library Stuff 2.0 | Saturday July 04, 2009 |

NYTimes.com – “Michael Arrington, founder of the influential tech blog TechCrunch , has been talking about building a touch-screen tablet for Web surfing for a year. Now, it appears that the CrunchPad is about to become a reality.” Will...

Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) Saturday July 04, 2009 |

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Learning Curves Saturday July 04, 2009 |

Around the middle of the day today, I saw a glowing orb in the sky! Light shined down on Cambridge, MA! I went for a walk and did not get rained on! Still didn't get very much work done for my regular job (nor did I make much progress with research). Held a...

open thinking social justice | Saturday July 04, 2009 |

Earlier today, I sent a tweet describing the contrast between teachers I have worked with who are afraid to use social media for fear of “Internet Predators” vs. many Iranian citizens who use social media with the realization that they may face...

The Latest Creativity | Saturday July 04, 2009 |

  Can a positive frame of mind and emotional state improve an individual's performance on the job and in relationships? Dr. Barbara Fredrickson, a distinguished psychology professor and author of Positivity , believes so. She argues that our emotions are...

ReadWriteWeb Advertising Market | Saturday July 04, 2009 |

Three months ago we reported that Ads Had Come to Twitter and it was a pretty big deal - until Twitter promptly said the word "sponsored" was only appearing on the site in error. Now the "sponsored definitions" of certain Twitter "concepts" have appeared...

ReadWriteWeb News | Saturday July 04, 2009 |

Peachtree Media Advisors has just released their latest report on digital media mergers and acquisitions. We posted their 2008 report back in January, and this is a mid-year 2009 update to that. According to Peachtree, there were 342 digital media...

Online Learning Update Saturday July 04, 2009 |

This paper describes an investigation into beliefs about academic integrity of faculty members who teach both online and on-campus within the University of Texas System, and their opinions regarding differences between the two environments. The research shows...

Online Learning Update Saturday July 04, 2009 |

This paper addresses how one university has partnered with a corporation to work on the verification of online student identity and describes ongoing efforts to best verify online student identity. Through this collaboration, the university seeks to enhance...

Online Learning Update Saturday July 04, 2009 |

At Kansas State University, an institutional strategy to promote academic integrity involves an honor code that is backed up by the K-State Honor and Integrity System, a student judiciary system, and the ?Development and Integrity? course for students who have...

Language Log Linguistics in the comics | Saturday July 04, 2009 |

In today's Doonesbury, Zonker riffs on the "no word for X" meme :

Moving at the Speed of Creativity digitalstorytelling | Saturday July 04, 2009 |

This was the video I submitted today as part of my application for the August 5th “Google Teacher’s Academy” in Boulder, Colorado. Not sure if this will be good enough, but we’ll see. It was fun to make! I titled it, “Lincoln...

ResourceShelf Social Media | Saturday July 04, 2009 |

From the Article: Social Security Administration (SSA) officials plan to hire a contractor to monitor what the public is saying about their agency on social media Web sites such as MySpace, Twitter and YouTube, according to a contract request from SSA. ...

Seth's blog fermented food | Saturday July 04, 2009 |

Outside Berkeley Whole Foods I encountered this cooking camp in session — they teach kids 8-12 years old to cook in two-week sessions, 4 hours/day. I love the idea. I think childhood obesity is due to eating ditto foods (foods, usually factory-made,...

ResourceShelf Information Industry | Saturday July 04, 2009 |

From the Article: While Google agreed to share the revenues with the publishers and authors, libraries, some consumer rights groups and other parties are worried that Google would have solitary and overwhelming control over access to ?orphan books??titles...

Shrink Rap mental health | Saturday July 04, 2009 |

Roy asked me to post about this article, by Shirley Wang, from the Wall Street Journal: Professional Baseball Faces Loaded Problem: Mental Health The article starts by talking about the fact that there are three Major League Baseball players on the...