I seem to have become incapable of expressing myself in anything more complicated than 140 character outbursts.
That would make a great tweet. Blogging about a tweet before I actually tweet it is way too self-referential though.
I do need some inspiration for this blog though. Homeschooling issues bore me, 80s hair metal doesn’t, but it seems […]

The Loudness War Analyzed « Music Machinery – Really good explanation of what what compression and the resulting loudness changes has done to the dynamic range of recorded music.

Fireman dresses as Spider-Man to rescue boy – Wonderful World- msnbc.com –

How the 2600 forged the home video game future. – By Michael Agger – Slate Magazine –

Did NC Judge Ned Mangum go too far in home-schooling case? – Digital Journal: Your News Network – As I said along, it was a divorce issue, not a homeschooling issue. HT: Daryl

We picked up the new (to us) Durango yesterday that is replacing the Durango that was totaled in Michelle’s recent accident. The 04 SLT is not quite as well appointed as the 05 Limited that is now scrap metal, but I knocked 20,000 miles off what the Durango had, and I banked some of the […]

Corner Office – Can You Pass a C.E.O. Test? – Question – NYTimes.com – “What are the two or three things that really matter?” And I find in the world that people don’t really do that often. They just dive into all this detail and start using acronyms and buzzwords and they don’t step back.

Enjoy.
Playing For Change | Song Around The World “Stand By Me” from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.
Hat tip: M Doonbros

“Whatever Happened to…?” | Harry McCracken | Voices | AllThingsD – Hayes modems, Prodigy, floppy disks, and a bunch of other things we used to thing were cool

England is proposing sweeping changes to the primary school curriculum. Out is a reliance on rote memorization of facts, and in is a focus on teaching kids how to use the tools available in the digital age.
This seems smart to me. Memorizing dates seems silly when they are a simple Google query away. It is […]