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I’m on an education kick. Here’s another TED video about education. Children were built to learn and absorb. I think it is really powerful what he talks about regarding how kids love teaching things to each other and working in groups. He also talks about the power of retention when kids discuss things together. The [...]

I’m frugal. I can’t deny that. I drive a car older than most of the kids in our Sunday School, so I’m always on a continued quest to see if I can shave a few bucks off here or there on regularly used services. Recently I’ve seen a lot of ads for Simple Mobile. I’m [...]

It is absolutely mind blowing what education could be like 5 years from now. The concept is a user interface for books that make it easy to flip chapter to chapter, page to page, and also have interactive objects within its pages, from expandable pictures and video to little apps within the pages, like a [...]

Seriously, I love TED. I could watch this stuff all day if I could. Here’s another awesome one. I’ve always been fascinated by how far ahead of his time Nikola Tesla was. In this video, Eric Giler shows wireless electricity that he dubs as wi-tricity. It’s pretty neat. I feel proud to see that the [...]

So, Windows 7 is going to be launching the 22nd of October. Cool. Microsoft is doing the whole, “windows 7 launch parties” thing. The video is TERRIBLE. Seriously, it hurts to watch. At first my thought was, no way, what is wrong with them. Why can’t they do anything right? Well, I was talking with [...]

Wow, I would be so mad being someone having to fight America in a war. He has a good point though about some of the ramifications of robotic arms races. He talks about globalization and how that effects things. So an american soldier is using a robot to fight a war with hardware from China [...]

Remember the day sof Teddy Ruxpin? Yeah, that’s right, that wierd bear that had tapes in his back and talked to you. I actually personally got a Corky doll one Christmas. It was . . . an experience. I used to have fun scaring my sister with it. I’m sure the makers of “chucky were [...]