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Get Human...The Movie
My old friend Paul English started something when he began a list of ways to short circuit "customer service" telephone response trees in order to reach actual human beings. His little list got so big a response that he's upscaled the site. It's now at www.GetHuman.com, and you're welcome to contribute your own ways of outfoxing the phone robots. To celebrate, Paul commissioned a 3 minute video from Wicked Indie productions, which consists of three Emerson college students, one of whom happens to be my daughter Leah. So, somehow I ended up as one of the two actors in the... From Joho the Blog on February 4, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Free wiki space for teachers from Wikispaces
I haven’t tried this wiki service, yet I’m encouraged by what I have read at the Wikispaces site, and the price is certainly right. No ads either, for K-12 educators. Wikispaces Blog: Over the last few months, some of the most gratifying feedback we’ve received has been from teachers telling us how valuable Wikispaces has been to [...] From Martindale Matrix on February 4, 2006 at 3:47 p.m..

AKA 47s and cubic zirconium
Amensty International is going to be showing a light-hearted short in UK theaters (um, theatres) next week. It's about the arms trade and it's very well done. [Tags: arms peace amnesty_international film humor]... From Joho the Blog on February 4, 2006 at 1:48 p.m..

Tuxedomoon
Yesterday, 20 years later I attended a concert of one of my favourite bands of the 80s. Tuxedomoon (t d f) on stage in Vienna at Szenewien (t d thomas n. burg | randgänge on February 4, 2006 at 1:46 p.m..

A Hot Thing on Campus: Study in Health Professions
Health science programs are becoming increasingly popular at colleges as the number of jobs in the health care industry continues to grow. From New York Times: Education on February 4, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

And for Perfect Attendance, Johnny Gets...a Car
Across the country, schools have begun to offer cars, iPods Ā— even a month's rent Ā— as incentives to students to improve their attendance. From New York Times: Education on February 4, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

Incomprehensible numbers
From Tim Grieve in Salon: The Bush administration is asking Congress for an additional $120 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan — money that comes on top of the $226 billion the administration has already budgeted for Iraq. Would we be "aiding and abetting the terrorists" if we mentioned just now that the Bush administration's top budget official insisted in 2002 that the entire war in Iraq would probably cost between $50 billion and $60 billion? Or that the president's secretary of defense suggested that the cost would be "something under $50 billion" and t From Joho the Blog on February 4, 2006 at 12:46 p.m..

Amid Outcry, Chancellor Defends Tutoring Program
Critics say because the program has a limit to how many students a teacher will tutor, it is unfair to the neediest schools. From New York Times: Education on February 4, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

Bush Urges Study of Math and Science
President Bush told students that studying math and science would help their own futures, as well as the economic health of the United States. From New York Times: Education on February 4, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

Microsoft Would Put Poor Online by Cellphone - John Markoff, New York Times
It sounds like a project that just about any technology-minded executive could get behind: distributing durable, cheap laptop computers in the developing world to help education. But in the year since Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the Massachusetts From Techno-News Blog on February 4, 2006 at 1:46 a.m..

So, what's next? Why, Web 2.0, naturally - Verne Kopytoff, San Francisco Chronicle
The term Web 2.0 has taken the Internet industry by storm with legions of Web sites claiming to follow its tenets. Executives frequently cite the phrase to refer to a new generation of Web sites that are far more dynamic than their predecessors. Instead From Techno-News Blog on February 4, 2006 at 1:46 a.m..

Red Hat officially commits to MIT's $100 laptop - China Martens, IDG News Service
Linux software vendor Red Hat Inc. plans to publicly confirm on Tuesday that it has become a founding corporate member of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization. The non-profit OLPC was established a year ago to spearhead development of the Massach From Techno-News Blog on February 4, 2006 at 1:46 a.m..