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Archive for August, 2008
As a internet jack of all trades I enjoy that the full quote is: “Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one”
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Events you should be aware of:
Goolsbee on education and wages (page 4):
Goolsbee pauses, then says: “That’s why the last eight years’ degradation of the budgets for science and its general politicization are so upsetting. The government’s commitment to investment in advanced training of our own people has plummeted, so now something like two-thirds of those gaining science and engineering PhDs here aren’t U.S. citizens. For many years America led globally in the percentage of 25-year-olds with college degrees. Now the U.S. is 31 in the world–right behind Bulgaria and right above Costa Rica. The problem for countries with skill levels between Bulgaria and Costa Rica is that 20 years from now they’ll also have income levels between those countries.”
Wow there must be a mot of money behind this Wire ARG. Take that Joss Whedon and your buffy comic.
if anyone ever goes to Florida they must get the Rock Shrimp at the Dixie Crossroads. Best food ever.
Not exactly a world breaking announcement but I’ve added normal Usernames and Passwords to Books I Am Reading. My ability to make openID work correctly has been a bit of a joke. If your tired of messing with openID you can add an email and password in the account section.
Toby Keith says he is a democrate and praises Barack Obama. What alternate world am I living in? He’s still a deuche but maybe I’ll stop fastfowarding when he is on the Colbert Report. Maybe.
Diebold, the electronic voting machine company, to Change Its Name. You now hate the company Premier Election Solutions. See you on November 9th!
I get a bit ranty but this is my response to an article Ypulse linked to at BBC news about how computers are making teens dumb. It’s just extra annoying cause clearly the woman who the article was about grew up at the dawn of TV which clearly makes us smarter after every commercial you see. Arg!
That article is so bogus. There have always been tons of people who don’t like to read. I’m 25 and have been on the computer since I was in 3rd grade and the internet since 6th.
I love to read long books as much as I watch 3 minute youtube videos.
The thing these article never go in to is reading is work. It can be super fun but it’s work that a lot of people don’t like to do. I hear jogging is fun once you start.. but I’ve never started jogging regularly so I can’t tell you for sure.
Reading used to be the only way to get entertainment. but this changed not with the computer but with the transistor radio and then TV.
Another thing never brought up by this article is how much reading you have to do on the computer. It’s not long form narrative but it’s reading. I’ll bet if you compare the amount of reading a teen did in the 60s and 70s it would be less then a teen today. From text messages to youtube comments word for word we read more. The people who argue that youtube comments don’t count as reading are the same people trying to get comic books out of libraries.
You don’t like to read book? Big deal. Tons of people don’t. When they were the only form of entertainment and information everyone had to read books. but now there is more forms of entertainment and information to suit people with different learning styles.
My brother hates to read. HATES IT. But he’ll sit and listen to an audio book for hours (which would drive me crazy).
Ug… these people make me so angry!!
Hard for me to say this diet doesn’t sound like the worst idea ever even if it’s a little more work then I currently do.
New single from Cassie Steele. (lyrics). The song is ridiculous. I don’t think the N will help promote it. Why couldn’t just be a love song to Craig or something? (via)
Update: Haha… it seems this new album will be a bit of a different genera then the last one: