American Public Media’s show Marketplace put it best when host Kai Ryssdal began the show when they said: Any lingering doubts you might have had that this was a global economy should be gone by now… Even before traders hit the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, you know which way the arrows [...]
Last night I posted about the impending closure of High Tech High Bayshore. Now I have learned a bit more about the situation and the fallout in the blogosphere. The families and students are out in force trying to muster up all of the support they can get. The school on the other hand is [...]
“Capote” and “Infamous” are two movies that came out within a year of each other that covered the exact same events, Truman Capote’s writing of the non-fiction novel “In Cold Blood“. I recently finished In Cold Blood for an assignment in humanities class and was extremely curious about how Mr. Capote learned so much about [...]
Down in San Diego, we learned this week that the popular charter school High Tech High was closing one of its schools in the bay area, High Tech High Bayshore. The school said that they were unable to meet enrollment goals and were going to sell the building they had. I didn’t realize how big [...]
The New York Times today has a review of a book called ‘Remainder‘ by Tom McCarthy. It is about a man who pretends to be normal after an unknown accident. The book sounds very much like something Philip K. Dick would write and the style also looks pretty similar. I’m always looking for a new [...]
There are some cool new features over at the music/social networking site last.fm including a flash based quilt of your top albums or artists. I have been using last.fm for a couple years and it has really grown into an amazing system. Back when I first started there were actually two sites, Last.fm and Audioscrobbler [...]
On Baghdad’s dusty streets, Iraqi children are playing make-believe war games inspired by the Shiite-Sunni conflict, a development that shows the depth of the city’s rapid and violent break-up along sectarian line The Associated Press is reporting that small children in Iraq are pretending to be militia men fighting against each other. A scary [...]