http://green-scissors.com Thinking with the Wrong Hand Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:26:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a bit more disturbing coming from a teacher but coming from anyone this strikes me as sad on a massive scale.  Ken Starks works with the Helios project to get opensource software and computers into places where kids would not otherwise have access.  He recieved a tart and ... http://green-scissors.com/archives/1701 I shouldn't have enjoyed this photo set as much as I did. The Private Lives of Your Favorite Toys | WebUrbanist http://green-scissors.com/archives/1696 Fran Drescher has tossed her name in the ring to be Hillary Clinton's replacement in the Senate.  My first reaction was "Hmm, the Onion must have gotten a redesigned site.  That looks just like CNN."  But after a moment the notion didn't seem so odd.  What I find even more ... http://green-scissors.com/archives/1694 The past weekend included the following random collection of events: Watching the trivia game at Dave and Buster's crash and discovering it runs on Windows XP. Random Stranger handing us free passes to the comedy club next door to Dave and Buster's. thereby extending the evening by two pleasant hours. Installed the next ... http://green-scissors.com/archives/1692 I appreciate a clear un-ambiguous apology that leaves no wiggle room. So - to repeat: the guys who did the demo of this are clearly not bozos; the only bozo in this situation is me, for screwing it up so badly, on so many levels. I sincerely apologize for calling them ... http://green-scissors.com/archives/1690 For the first time in my life, I hit another driver this morning.  Not a devastating crash.  No airbags, no emergency services.  But I did mangle the front end of my Civic a bit and crunched the rear bumper of the very nice (and very new) Eclipse in front of ... http://green-scissors.com/archives/1688 The long holiday weekend has played havoc with my bio rythms.  Or something.  Whatever the reason, I am not yet feeling like a fully functional human this week.  I have plenty of things I'd like to be posting about, just can't find the extra ergs to get it done.  No ... http://green-scissors.com/archives/1686 Um, isn't gender one of the first boxes you complete on the form when documenting an animal? TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- Puzzled zookeepers in northern Japan have discovered the reason why their attempts to mate two polar bears kept failing: Both are female. Zoo solves mystery of celibate polar bears - CNN.com. http://green-scissors.com/archives/1682 I'm totally unsure how to classify this headline.  The article is not a game review or some fan-boy slash.  Its actually talking about things that some government agents claim has happened.  So I'll suspend judgement and just let you absorb the article as best you can Mythical Female Snipers Stalk Russians ... As ... http://green-scissors.com/archives/1678 A great write up on the basic idea of how we use data and how those things change when the amount of data increases by a couple orders of magnitude. If I were to convert the storage on my cellphone to floppy disks on my old Apple clone, it would require ... http://green-scissors.com/archives/1676