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28
Nov 09

Daily Links for November 27th through November 28th

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  • Visual Literacy: An E-Learning Tutorial on Visualization for Communication, Engineering and Business – The Visual-Literacy.org e-learning course will be used as an online leveling course as well as a blended skill-building course for students of fourteen different university courses in four universities (for more than 500 students). These courses require advanced analytical and conceptual visualization skills in order to transform abstract thought efficiently into graphic, tangible forms and to manage the topic complexity and the problems addressed in each class.
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19
Aug 09

Abandoning the Flock

Exactly how stupid do they think we are?  The Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s actions seem to betray their words – they are certainly not evangelizing and educating “the poor and needy”.

Bishop Joseph P. McFadden’s (wiki) goal as stated in the Philly.com article seems to be continually minimizing their education presence in the City and its older, poorer suburbs.

Meanwhile, the Archdiocese started a new begathon, attempting to raise $200mm to build schools in the (wealthier) suburbs, while simultaneously holding a gun to inner-city and donut hole suburb school and parishes.   It also seems McFadden is geographically challenged:  Read more...

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Jul 09

Daily Links for July 1st through July 2nd

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  • Schneier on Security: Security, Group Size, and the Human Brain – The smallest, three to five, is a "clique": the number of people from whom you would seek help in times of severe emotional distress. The twelve to 20 group is the "sympathy group": people with which you have special ties. After that, 30 to 50 is the typical size of hunter-gatherer overnight camps, generally drawn from the same pool of 150 people. No matter what size company you work for, there are only about 150 people you consider to be "co-workers." (In small companies, Alice and Bob handle accounting. In larger companies, it's the accounting department — and maybe you know someone there personally.) The 500-person group is the "megaband," and the 1,500-person group is the "tribe." Fifteen hundred is roughly the number of faces we can put names to, and the typical size of a hunter-gatherer society.
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14
Jan 09

Daily Links for January 13th

  • BUSH BASH // JANUARY 19th, 2009 – Celebrate the end of the Bush era by throwing him the largest going away party ever. Join a party or plan your own for the night of January 19th—Bush's last official day in office. Then post your party photos on Flickr, and we’ll stream them on this site the next day. Let's bash together as bushbash09.com lives on as the last moment of the finally-over Bush era.
  • Obamicon.Me – Home – Make your own "Obamicon" — your image in a style inspired by Shepard Fairey's iconic poster. Regardless of your candidate of choice in the 2008 election, here's your chance to sound-off.
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Nov 08

Daily Links for November 17th

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