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 Saturday, February 16, 2002
corn
I wish I had a corn field. It might make living in the midwest tolerable. And look, here's an apostrophe! 10:29:35 PM 
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education for profit
When Edison Schools Inc. takes over some schools there...  Philadelphians can expect 90 minutes of reading lessons each morning, during which teachers follow a common script; swift disciplinary hearings for students who so much as talk out of turn in class; standardized tests administered by computer every few weeks, with answers transmitted instantly to Edison headquarters in New York; and, eventually, a complimentary computer in the home of every child.
Parents should also get accustomed to their children receiving law-enforcement-style tickets âo[per thou] but for good conduct âo[per thou] which are the currency for admission to school activities like the honors choir and Friday night dances.
So in a for-profit environment, we can see that a premium is placed on making good subjects through discipline. So, um, if kids are better behaved, do they learn anything? Do they become better citizens? I haven't read this, but if you're interested, it might have something to say to these questions. 10:15:02 PM
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Finally made it to the library, almost two hours later than planned. What was I doing for those two hours? Nada. Playing with StreamCatcher, a program that lets you record online music streams (hasn't worked for me so far), and PageSpinner, a wizzy HTML editor that I thought might make it easier for me to make neatly marked-up Radio entries. Of course, that kind of waste of time is just stupid since the whole purpose of Radio is supposed to be simplifying the process of creating and maintaining a web site. The stupidity is multiplied when I stop to consider why I'm working so hard to maintain a weblog in the first place. What could I possibly have to say that's worth all this work and time? A better question: If I have so much time to burn, why don't I spend it writing instead of blogging, reading blogs, thinking about blogging, etc? Hmm? This is my personal paradox of the two-way-web -- it's a writing environment that basically puts up roadblocks to writing (for me). 9:34:23 PM
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I love The Shifted Librarian. She just wrote about blue and red Parkay margarine and the sadness of Kraft's web properties. This is poetry in motion. And That might sound sarcastic, but it's not, because what I mean is I think it's great that there are mothers who think and blog in this world, and who are also librarians. Look at my entry earlier this week about the web as a public sphere and you might begin to think that the Shifted Librarian answers my question. (The answer would be: yes, the web is a sort of extension of the public sphere and it allows mothers who think and who are librarians to enter the public debate about social norms of butter.)
;-) 9:22:14 PM
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