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From Toy to Tool: Cell Phones in Learning: Create your own Cell Phone Radio Show...or just hear your favorite podcast on your cell!
Excerpt: "You go to the Foneshow website, find a podcast (there are many to choose from including NPR and even the presidential candidates), type in your cell phone number, click on subsc...
audio, blogclip, check_this_out, cool, mobile, podcasting, resources, telephony, tools, viatwitter, More... saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com/2008/07/create-your-own-cell-phone-radio-showor.html
Foneshow: Foneshow delivers audio content directly to your cell phone.
From the page: "Foneshow delivers audio content directly to your cell phone. With automatic notification, the content is always fresh; it's great for news, finance, and sports programming...
audio, check_this_out, cool, mobile, podcasting, resources, telephony, tools, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://foneshow.com
Frank Schaeffer: Sarah Palin: America's Lipstick Fascist
Don't dismiss Frank Schaeffer's scathing comments on Palin. His conservative bonafides are about as good as they get. Seen on @melmcbride 's Twitter stream.
christianity, evangelicalism, opinion, politics, religion, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/sarah-palin-americas-lips_b_124213.html
New! Diigo Educator Accounts now available! - Classroom 2.0
Check this out. Looks very cool.
2.0, bookmarking, cool, diigo, education, note-taking, resources, social, teaching, tools, More... saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.classroom20.com/forum/topic/show?id=649749%3ATopic%3A191499
The airship's latest incarnation
A California-based company is developing a prototype of a new generation of zeppelin. It has a range of several thousand miles, can be powered by fuel-cell-generated electricity, flies at...
aviation, cool, news, science, travel, viamento.info, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.popsci.com/aeros/article/2006-02/flying-luxury-hotel
When we shop at chain stores, we save money -- but what do we lose?
This is one of those classic dilemmas. As the economy tightens up and chain stores take over, it gets harder and harder to support the kinds of businesses we all would rather have in our ...
blogclip, business, economics, local, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://zenhabits.net/2008/08/is-our-addiction-to-saving-money-destroying-the-real-america
Backchannel: USC Interactive Media Division - Projects
check_this_out, communication, education, pedagogy, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://interactive.usc.edu/research/immersive/projects/20050823-backchanne.php
ChangeThis :: George Lakoff Manifesto
Seen on melmcbride's Twitter stream.
conservatives, language, media, progressivism, social_science, toread, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.changethis.com/5.GeorgeLakoff
Flickr pool: "Great Diagrams in Anthropology, Linguistics, and Social Theory"
A bunch of scanned (I assume) classic diagrams of anthropological and social-scientific concepts.
anthropology, cool, diagram, flickr, image, links, social_science, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.flickr.com/groups/great_diagrams_in_anthropological_theory
For safety-conscious New Yorkers: CraneWatch b.v0.8
An interactive social mashup site where New Yorkers can research construction sites in their neighborhoods, find current information on safety violations, report street-level observations...
2.0, cool, maps, mashup, nyc, resources, safety, social, viatwitter, web, More... saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.unlimited-solutions.com/cranewatch/p2/about.asp
SomeEcards screenshot, spotted on Twitter
Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Ftwitpic.com%2Fa6w2
funny, image, politics, sex, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://twitpic.com/a6w2
Humanists sue as exam agency blocks GCSE | Education | The Guardian
Personally, I think the humanists are way off base here, despite the fact that I'm generally sympathetic to humanist organizations. "Humanism" (the concept being, for one thing, a contemp...
atheism, education, news, pluralism, postdeliciousfail20080912, postrels, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/sep/13/gcses.religion?gusrc=rss
Bio Mapping: Charting Emotional Hotspots in the Cityscape | PSFK - Trends, Ideas
architecture, art, cities, cool, maps, psychology, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.psfk.com/2008/07/bio-mapping-charting-emotional-hot-spots-in-the-cityscape.html
Phweet - Public Alpha
I don't actually understand what this does...
chat, microblogging, opensocial, phweet, tools, twitter, viatwitter, voip, web2.0 saved by: Kleverson and 4 people more details ...
http://phweet.com
"Was Jesus divine, or a human being with a powerful message?" | Channel 4 - Faith and belief - Talking Point
Discussion board for a documentary about Jesus' family. Posted by a Twitter contact.
check_this_out, christianity, social, viatwitter, video saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/C/can_you_believe_it/debates/talking_point_jesus....
A sofa that turns into a bunk-bed
cool, design, furniture, home, viapsfk, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.psfk.com/2008/07/sofa-to-bunk-bed-in-a-flash.html
Parker Palmer, "As My Two Eyes Make One in Sight" (essay on teaching)
pedagogy, teaching, toread, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.couragerenewal.org/newsletter/summer2008/102-summer2008/132-twoeyes
Group scheduling made easier: WhenIsGood.com
Tool for group scheduling. Go to their site, look at a calendar, click on the times that work for you, and it'll generate a link that you can send to your people. They visit the page and ...
calendar, collaboration, free, productivity, tool, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://whenisgood.net
The language you speak affects your personality
A study of bilingual women suggests that when you switch from speaking one language to another, your personality and your perceptions change as well. I've experienced this myself switchin...
gender, language, news, psychology, science, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSSP4652020080624
Premium peanut butter for the peanut butter connoisseur
"Adult" peanut butters, with flavorings ranging from caramel, mocha, and banana to curry and tomato. Intriguing.
business, food, product, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.pbloco.com
Feedego » about
Takes a cluster of feeds, a list of keywords, and your ratings, and tries to produce a feed of articles you'll like. Described as "kind of like a personal Techmeme."
rss, tools, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://feedego.com/about
Feedego » about
Takes a cluster of feeds, a list of keywords, and your ratings, and tries to produce a feed of articles you'll like. Described as "kind of like a personal Techmeme."
feed, personalization, reader, rss, tools, viatwitter saved by: nbr and 2 people more details ...
http://feedego.com
Portraits of the dying and the newly dead
Photographer Walter Schels has created a collection of paired portraits; each pair shows a person shortly before and just after death. The commentary is fairly sobering.
art, death, image, photography, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/apr/01/society.photography
Portraits of the dying and the newly dead [5]
Photographer Walter Schels has created a collection of paired portraits; each pair shows a person shortly before and just after death. The commentary is fairly sobering.
art, death, image, photography, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/gallery/2008/mar/31/lifebeforedeath?lightbox=1
JukeFly: access your music collection from anywhere
Seems handy. A nice snappy interface that allows you to stream your music collection into any web browser anywhere. Some social features. Built with Flash. I haven't tried it; if you do, ...
cool, flash, music, social, software, tools, viatwitter, web saved by: nbr more details ...
http://jukefly.com/blog/?page_id=9
A scarf made to look like bacon! What a great idea!
Made of "21.5 micron merino wool" for that luxurious, bacon-on-skin feeling. Unfortunately it's sold out. The creator's comments: "It looks like a real slice of bacon, with all the striat...
bacon, clothing, food, funny, random_sht, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=9330217
Last statement of Henry Porter, executed for murder July 9, 1985
An interesting final statement from a convicted cop killer. Food for thought.
crime, justice, law, race, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/porterhenrylast.htm
UK educator decries domination of education by management-oriented language
An Oxford professor examines the gradual takeover of all policy writing on education by the language of business management: "efficiency," "providers," "audits," "performance indicators,"...
education, language, news, pedagogy, postfacebookclip, schools, teaching, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7247160.stm
Afrika Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force, "Planet Rock" (1982)
Via Missingtoof.com (http://snipr.com/1z8cr), posted at Stumbleupon (http://snipr.com/1z8da)
hip-hop, mp3, music, viastumbleupon, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://216.69.172.62/sleaze/2008-01/music3/Afrika%20Bambaataa%20and%20Soulsonic%20Force%20-%...
Flipper, "Ha Ha Ha" (Subterranean Records, 1980)
mp3, music, punk, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.die-monster.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/26-flipper-ha_ha_ha.mp3
Travelling by bus in Sweden? Beware of dwarves
One of the weirdest news stories I've read in some time. Apparently some criminal gangs are smuggling dwarves in duffel bags into the luggage compartment of long-haul buses, where they lo...
crime, europe, news, postfacebookclip, travel, viatwitter, weird saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/24/wdwarf124.xml
Oliver Sacks, "The Abyss: Music & Amnesia" (The New Yorker, Sept. 24, 2007)
Oliver Sacks on "the most devastating case of amnesia ever recorded," a man who lost the ability to retain memories for more than a few seconds.
health, journalism, postfacebooksource, psychology, toread, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/24/070924fa_fact_sacks
"Alison": a father's portrait of his daughter
Three decades' worth of Jack Radcliffe's photographs of his daughter Alison. Extremely moving and beautiful images.
children, family, image, parenting, photography, photos, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Alison/49837?=gallery
The "air car": a compressed-air engine
Energy-efficient and near-zero or zero emissions? Sounds like a winner to me. Apparently it relies on stored compressed air mixed with fuel. I don't quite understand the technology. An In...
automotive, caes, energy, environment, france, news, technology, transportation, viatwitter saved by: nbr and 2 people more details ...
http://www.theaircar.com
CreditCovers: Skins for your credit cards [5]
So random and strange I had to clip it. Basically these are sheets of adhesive plastic that you can overlay on top of your credit card to give it a more personalized look. There's a cutou...
product, viatwitter, weird saved by: nbr more details ...
http://creditcovers.com/index.php?main_page=popup_image_additional&pID=12&pic=0&products_ima...
CreditCovers: Skins for your credit cards [4]
So random and strange I had to clip it. Basically these are sheets of adhesive plastic that you can overlay on top of your credit card to give it a more personalized look. There's a cutou...
product, viatwitter, weird saved by: nbr more details ...
http://creditcovers.com/index.php?main_page=popup_image_additional&pID=12&pic=1&products_ima...
CreditCovers: Skins for your credit cards [6]
So random and strange I had to clip it. Basically these are sheets of adhesive plastic that you can overlay on top of your credit card to give it a more personalized look. There's a cutou...
product, viatwitter, weird saved by: nbr more details ...
http://creditcovers.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=12
"Geek Squad" technician arrested for planting camera in girl's shower
People are freaks.
news, viatwitter, weird saved by: nbr more details ...
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=5201426
Big changes at Facebook: new dev platform & video-sharing [29]
Facebook is enabling integration with a huge number of major web apps (only some are shown in the clip), plus adding video sharing (including live webcam captures). Cool! Via Eric Skiff's...
2.0, check_this_out, cool, design, facebook, networking, posttumblr, social, viatwitter, web, More... saved by: nbr more details ...
http://mashable.com/2007/05/24/facebook-video-launches
Big changes at Facebook: new dev platform & video-sharing [30]
Facebook is enabling integration with a huge number of major web apps (only some are shown in the clip), plus adding video sharing (including live webcam captures). Cool! Via Eric Skiff's...
2.0, check_this_out, cool, design, facebook, networking, posttumblr, social, viatwitter, web, More... saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.mashable.com/category/facebook
Big changes at Facebook: new dev platform & video-sharing
Facebook is enabling integration with a huge number of major web apps (only some are shown in the clip), plus adding video sharing (including live webcam captures). Cool! Via Eric Skiff's...
0507, 2.0, api, check_this_out, cool, design, facebook, facebookplatform, forvapeug, innovationascendante, More... saved by: nbr and 2 people more details ...
http://mashable.com/2007/05/24/facebook-platform-30-apps
The tools our students use
Alan November argues that educators should take advantage of students' high comfort level with networked tools. Via Laura Blankenship's tweets (that's GeekyMom to you): http://snipr.com/1...
2.0, academe, commentary, education, social, teaching, technology, viatwitter, web saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.techlearning.com/showArticle.php?articleID=196604487
Audio: Christopher Guest on Spinal Tap's inspiration
Someone Twittered about this sidesplitting one-minute excerpt from an interview with Guest, who played Nigel Tufnel in Spinal Tap. He describes overhearing a hotel-lobby conversation betw...
film, funny, humor, music, posttumblr, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.zshare.net/audio/274525871de9f6
Dave Winer: the problem with conferences
Dave Winer's reflections on why traditionally-structured conference formats don't seem very productive, and what might work better -- free-form, small-scale conversations among smart peop...
blogclip, commentary, communication, conferences, events, posttumblr, professional, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/07/18/newFormatsForConferences.html
Memoirs of "photographs I never took"
A photographer posts short text descriptions of photos he wishes he'd taken but couldn't. Poetic and evocative.
art, cool, literature, photography, posttumblr, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.unphotographable.com
Funkadelic, "Maggot Brain," from Maggot Brain (Westbound, 1971)
funk, music, rock, viaskreemr, viatwitter saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.murdercitydevils.net/daggermix6/funkadelic.mp3