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2010: How I Spent My Summer!

This summer I haven’t posted as I was out riding across the TransAmerica, TransAm, #acatransam! The trail took me from Yorktown, VA to Portland, OR. See the trip, with notes and pix on Google Maps or TrackMyTour.

I am decompressing at present and haven’t even cleaned or performed maintenance on my Rivendell Atlantis: Home 4,143 [...]

Need an Ultra Cheap Machine for School?

Walmart has you covered.  Engadget reviews the $348 17-inch Toshiba Satellite L355 and finds that Toshiba’s shockingly inexpensive Satellite L355 (S7915) with a 17-inch display (1,440 x 900), a 2.2GHz Celeron 900 CPU, Vista Basic, 3GB of RAM, a 250GB (5400RPM) hard drive, 8x DVD writer and GMA 4500M integrated graphics could be a great purchase [...]

Tiffins

While not precisely educational in many respects, I can’t help but think that these sustainable, reusable, environmentally friendly stainless steel food containers are exactly what I need to begin my new school year.

From http://www.happytiffin.com

Circular and available in multiple sizes, these latch-style tiffins will transport your food or items easily and beautifully. They features separate levels with [...]

Videos for Technological and Media Literacy

80+ Videos for Tech. & Media Literacy

Over the past few years, this person has been collecting interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. Here are 70+ videos organized into various sub-categories. These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use.

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50 most frequently looked up words on the NYTimes

N.Y. Times mines its data to identify words that readers find abstruse » Nieman Journalism Lab
If The New York Times ever strikes you as an abstruse glut of antediluvian perorations, if the newspaper’s profligacy of neologisms and shibboleths ever set off apoplectic paroxysms in you, if it all seems a bit recondite, here’s a reason to [...]