WTF?

Texeira suggested that including Ebonics in the program would be beneficial for students. Ebonics, a dialect of American English that is spoken by many blacks throughout the country, was recognized as a separate language in 1996 by the Oakland school board ( Read more... )

I'm gonna start posting some of my predictions about the last Harry Potter book.

Posting under a cut since i'm not really trying to be spoiler free. Feel free to argue wit me about my predictions ;)

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Heh, I just downloaded the new Harry Potter book as a .txt file.

That is pretty funny.

update: and read the whole thing too. It is good. sad though.

bleh

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Ha, when they make one of these that will go 100+ miles on a charge I am so getting one. (or mebbe interchangeable batteries)

Electric MotorcycleI've been reading up on Electric motorcycles - The chief problems they are having are that they don't get enough range, and they are TOO QUIET. One of the hybrids I was looking at makes noise equivalent ( Read more... )

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THIS is interesting.

After the London bombing, I feel more than ever that the war model is deeply flawed, and that a truer picture of the present conflict may be gained by studying another, culturally distinct form of violent conflict, namely the blood feud.

This is interesting - though somewhat macabre I suppose.

It's a picture of Iraq, that starts with March 2003, and shows coalition casualties day by day.

The Map

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