Hey, Larry, look what they're doing in Dallas:
Dallas school superintendent Michael Hinojosa and two trustees defended new classroom grading rules Friday, and urged teachers and parents to learn more about the requirements before dismissing them as misguided.
I am soooo disappointed. I thought Bigfoot was really going to be unconvered this time, but it turns out to be just a Web-site promotion scam:
Correction of the year so far, from The New York Times:
An article on Friday about the planned construction of two large solar power installations in California described incorrectly the operation of the solar panels in one, to be built by SunPower. Its panels pivot from east to west to follow the sun over the course of a day — not west to east.
When Fort Wayne Community Schools unveiled its $500 million building program, a lot of people said, "But what about academics?" Now we have the answer. FWCS has plans to reinvent its six high schools. I'm working on an editorial about it, and I don't know exactly the final shape will be, but it will not be nearly as uncritically supportive as The Journal Gazette's:
Thank goodness Michael Phelps won his eight gold medals. It would have been a shame to waste all that good hype. This is from the normally un-gushy Christian Science Monitor, under the headline "The Phelps Olympics: An epic fit for ancient Greece":
Almost without question, he is now “the greatest swimmer in history,” says David Wallechinsky, author of “The Complete Book of the Olympics.”
Are you people out there doping yourself up digitally every time I turn my back? First, Digital Goddess Kim Komando warns us that Web sites are targeting our kids with so-called digital drugs, audio files that have the same effect as drugs:
There are different slang terms for digital drugs. They're often called "idozers" or "idosers." All rely on the concept of binaural beats.
It is incorrect to call binaural beats music. They're really ambient sounds designed to affect your brain waves.
I think I've mentioned several times here to be suspicious of stories using a lot of percentages -- it probably means the raw numbers weren't scary enough, and you are being misled. Here's a good example from The New York Times:
The portion of people who have home equity lines more than 30 days past due stands 55 percent above its average since the American Bankers Association began tracking it around 1990.
Futurists should be taken with a grain of salt, especially when they claim to be able to see further than a year or two out. But they can be entertaining reading:
The suburbs have three destinies, none of them exclusive: as materials salvage, as slums, and as ruins.”
You say you've met more people that you'd like to remember who just kept making the same mistakes over and over again? There's a reason:
OK, now they're scaring me:
MOSCOW (AP) — A top Russian general said Friday that Poland's agreement to accept a U.S. missile defense battery exposes ex-communist nation to attack, possibly by nuclear weapons, the Interfax news agency reported.
Or maybe Russia is just being helpful, offering to help us test the missile defense battery.
