According to Newsweek, the tradition of putting a Gideons Bible in the bedside table may be dying. At most hotels, this is something you will find in every room. Yet in the rooms of Manhattan’s Soho Grand Hotel, guest get iPod docking stations, flat-screen TVs, and a complimentary goldfish pet– but no Bible. The 10-year-old…Continue Reading…
I enjoyed this video. It’s worth watching all the way through. Kids are taught clustering, triangles, magic sevens, and other intriguing concepts. These are very interesting ways to look at math. However, they completely lack regular core math skills because they don’t master the basic algorithms. They have a complete dependence on calculators. What do…Continue Reading…
I was going to go to sleep, but this site is just too cool for me to not write about. It’s Free Rice, and it’s a simple vocabulary game. I “donated” 110 grains of rice today by playing the game. It shows you a word, and you need to select another word with an equivalent…Continue Reading…
It could very well be a fine movie, although we can’t quite tell since it hasn’t been released yet. However, the book it’s based on, Northern Lights in the UK and The Golden Compass in the US, is anti-religious. The author, Phillip Pullman, reportedly is an atheist who pursues an anti-Christian agenda. According to Wikipedia,…Continue Reading…
Here’s a widget from Revver which I’d like to try out. These videos are hosted by my mother:
I’ve started using the Yahoo! Publisher Network again, after dropping them completely for a year. Actually, looking back on my payment history now, I actually did fairly well with them. I earned $747.90 in December 2005, and it went down from there as I started using AdSense instead. Although AdSense earned more, that’s not the…Continue Reading…