February 2009
Slashdot | How To Be A Geek Goddess →
books.slashdot.org
I guess their intentions are good?
Unemployed Friends - Work for the State, WPA Style →
ccc.ca.gov
California Conservation Corps pays $8 an hour, but they feed and sometimes house you. You’d qualify for welfare, too. Think about it!
Disinterested v. Uninterested →
books.google.com
They mean two different things.
National MS Society - Walk Event: →
main.nationalmssociety.org
Hey! I’m doing the MS Walk on April 19th! If you know me, you’ve probably heard about my friend Kaley, who got diagnosed when she was 12. This event is totally crucial for raising funds for a cure, and this year will be the tenth year we’ll have been walking for/with her!
Come join us, or send a little somethin’ somethin’ our way. Pretty please?
“The new Details has Kanye on the cover and a bunch of his megalomaniacal quotes on the inside, but the best stuff comes when he’s arguing for “gay” to connote “dope.” Because all the gay people he talks to are extremely dope, but it’s not like he talks to them in gay bars because he’s never been to a gay bar, nor does he plan to, and yet he has talked to gay people, because you probably don’t realize but sometimes gay people can be talked to while not in gay bars. It’s only logic.”
—Kanye Is Gay (As In “Extremely Dope”) - Stereogum
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New York - NYU Protest Update: The Final Four - Runnin' Scared - Village Voice →
blogs.villagevoice.com
Was this a success? A huge failure? I think I’m pretty much out of the loop on this one…
“My son, who is in third grade, spends much of his school day struggling to learn how to form the letter “G.” Sometimes he writes it backwards. Sometimes the tail on his lowercase “T” goes the wrong way. His teachers keep telling him he may fail the state assessment standards. We have had several “interventions.” Simon now fears taking up a pencil. Repeatedly being told his handwriting is bad (a fine-motor-skill issue) has become, in his mind, proof that he is a bad writer (an expression issue). He now hates writing, period.”
—GOOD » Stop Teaching Handwriting»
