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Friday, April 04, 2003 |
From MetaFilter:
I pray this is a joke. Along the same lines of sites designed to get kids to eat more red meat comes the Presidential Prayer Kids website, which instructs the young on how best to support our leader through prayer. This week's lesson instructs the Bush Youth to be faithful, compares them to dogs. "They are showing their faithfulness by obeying the commands they are given and by doing exactly the job they were trained for."
Pretty sad stuff. Nice profile of the pious Dwight Eisehower -- " Eisenhower was pretty popular because he had been a well-known general during WWII". I loved the credit under the painting of George Washington: "Photo courtesy of Library of Congress." But I wonder how many kids read this? I know I sure would have stayed away from it even though I was pretty pious a youth. Or thought I was at the time.
10:42:16 PM Permalink
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Daddy, Are We There Yet? A Discussion with Alan Kay. Some guys are always ahead of the curve. Alan Kay was working on a notebook computer called the Dynabook 35 years ago. "Twenty years ago at PARC," Kay says, "I thought we would be way beyond where we are now. I was dissatisfied with what we did there. The irony is that it looks pretty good." So where are we now? Daniel Steinberg chats with Alan Kay to find out. [O'Reilly Network Articles]
...[T]he true personal computing revolution will happen when all people, especially children, become fluent with the deeper powers of expression that only the computer makes possible, and when these powers of expression bring forth a new way to discuss, think, and argue about important ideas.
9:18:45 PM Permalink
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Bad when they do it, OK when we do it?
US forces use schools for cover by Russell Skelton
United States special forces have taken up strategic positions in three secondary schools located in a densely populated residential area of a city in northern Iraq.
The schools, which have been closed since the war began, are located near a prominent Christian church and within 200 metres of a United Nations complex.
The decision to locate the special forces in a residential area appears to run counter to US policy. The Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, recently criticised Iraq for placing key military units and weaponry in and around mosques, hospitals and schools in both Baghdad and Basra. [more] [Craig's BookNotes]
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How the Mind Works
The Checkershadow Illusion by Edward Adelson. An amazing instance of the familiar sort of static image optical illusion that I've ever encountered. Follow the link to a research paper which analyzes in great detail the hard-wired pathways in the brain that allow for exactly this sort of illusion. [via kuro5hin.org]
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