Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Why a predictably breakable rope is better than an unbreakable rope

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Short answer: there is no such thing as an unbreakable rope. There's an old story about an isolated monastery located high on the sid...
Monday, September 29, 2014

The great buried lede of the Common Core debate

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Lee Fang has another solid piece of investigative journalism at the Nation . It covers a lot of important ground (I'd recommend reading...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

"Marvel, Jack Kirby Heirs Settle Dispute Over Superhero Rights"

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From Variety “Marvel and the family of Jack Kirby have amicably resolved their legal disputes, and are looking forward to advancing their ...
Friday, September 26, 2014

Lots of red flags on this one

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This is another one of those education stories where it's difficult to figure out what's actually going on but easy to see that the ...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

Checking back in on "Netflix and the big swinging check syndrome"

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Whenever possible it's good to follow-up. A few weeks ago, the news broke that: Netflix Acquires ‘The Blacklist’ For $2 Million An E...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

The Con(firmation) Artists of the New York Times

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I was gathering notes for yet another post on the sad state of fact-checking at the New York Times , this time concerning Alessandra Stanley...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

What's so bad about working together?

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This post by Tom Paulson is more than a year out of date but it raises some still relevant questions. I wasn’t actually allowed behind th...
Monday, September 22, 2014

More shifting alliances -- TPM edition

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As mentioned before, when it came to the politics of the education reform movement, the big story four or five years ago was liberal support...

More self-defeating comment spam

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I understand that a great deal of spam is generated by bots and translation software. I can even believe that for some products the bad gram...
Friday, September 19, 2014

Mrs. Johnson's class is doing well. Let's call that a school

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If you are following the data side of the ed reform story, you really need to check out Gary Rubinstein's account of Frayser 9GA, the ...

And you have a problem with Joe Camel?

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Mental Floss (one of the internet's best time killers) has a very cool article called  10 Lifehacks from 100 Years Ago . In the late ...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

Artificial intelligence, natural stupidity

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This started out as one of my standard ddulite rants, another round of complaints about how the press goes all gee-whiz over high tech and s...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

At least we can all agree that ad hominem and overly general attacks are bad

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I keep meaning to write something substantial about Conor P. Williams who is, among other things, the voice of  Talking Points Memo  in the ...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Yes, it's bear-in-the-pool hot

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Recently, the hottest times of the year in LA are spring and fall . The September Southern California heat wave has sent at least one bea...

Wondering where the numbers come from -- Rotten Tomatoes

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A while back I was taking one of my random walks through Wikipedia and I came across the movie Postal . For some forgotten reason (possibly ...
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