Monthly Archives: March 2010

Online hero – Salman Khan

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Karl

Starbulletin: “Khan’s tutorials display promise of broadband”. PBS NewsHour: Math Wiz Takes Education to New Limits on YouTube Related: Khan Academy

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Two pre-teens covering Warrant’s “Heaven” and it’s pretty damn special

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Karl

YouTube: Warrant- Heaven Cover:

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What Teachers Make

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Karl

YouTube: Taylor Mali on what teachers make: via @alexknowshtml

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What is software testing

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Karl

We just concluded a lab week at CIM that was awesome. No other short way to put it. Read Jon’s post for the details. For this lab week I worked with folks from QA exploring a tool (a MIT research … Continue reading →

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Online heroes – David and Barbara Mikkelson

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Karl

NPR.org profiles the hosts of Snopes.com in “Mom-And-Pop Site Busts The Web’s Biggest Myths”.

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I have a feeling some of this applies to becoming a better communicator overall

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Karl

NYTimes: “Building a Better Teacher”: But what makes a good teacher? There have been many quests for the one essential trait, and they have all come up empty-handed. Among the factors that do not predict whether a teacher will succeed: … Continue reading →

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I bought a Kodak ZI8

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Karl

I love this thing. It’s not perfect, at this low price point ($170) nothing is, but I’ve been able to take some amazing short videos so far. I maybe will post something to YouTube someday soon. I’m running out of … Continue reading →

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The Onion has migrated to Django from Drupal

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Karl

reddit.com: “The Onion Uses Django, And Why It Matters To Us”

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IBM’s developerWorks on tuning LAMP

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Karl

Sean A. Walberg’s series on IBM developerWorks is a great primer: Tuning LAMP systems, Part 1: Understanding the LAMP architecture Tuning LAMP systems, Part 2: Optimizing Apache and PHP Tuning LAMP systems, Part 3: Tuning your MySQL server

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Clip from the new Doctor Who + I Kissed Rose Tyler, and I liked it

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Karl

Bleeding Cool: VIDEO: Doctor Who Clip From 5.6! Vampires In Venice! I Kissed Rose Tyler – Katy Perry TROCK cover

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