Author: jedreynolds
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Will the American Rich Exhaust the Economy? (Vanity Fair)
From artIcle: An economy in which most citizens are doing worse year after year—an economy like America’s—is not likely to do well over the long haul.
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Maybe JavaScript Iddna Me Bain
It was late and I was pretty caffinated up and had a laptop but no Internet. So I figured I’d practice trying to code a game of life from scratch, just using what scraps of code I could find on the hard drive as reference. Of course there is always some refresher I need to…
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Bellingham Summer Rides (everybodyBIKE)
Linda Blake at everybodyBIKE sent me a load of information detailing upcoming summer rides. Below are posters, PDF versions and a Word document detailing the schedule. Hope to go on a few myself, and I hope to you out there! Summer Rides Poster PDF…
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7 community and group sharing sites (Brain Pickings)
These are pretty neat. http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/08/30/7-ways-to-have-more-by-owning-less/
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The Montessori Mafia (WSJ)
There are lots of ideas about early education, this one almost seems like an advertisement. http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/04/05/the-montessori-mafia/
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Khan Academy — neato!
Khan Academy has an incredible selection of educational videos intended as a teacher resource and as self-paced student exercises. Good intro video.
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Apache, MySQL, LinuxFest Northwest and Bikes
LinuxFest Northwest is coming soon on April 30-May 1. I often present on MySQL and was considering doing an Apache talk again. However, these are broad topics and I’d like to split them up into tracks. Who wants to also talk about MySQL or Apache? Time is short. As a father of two action hero…
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ADHD, Food Additives (Grist)
ADHD: It’s the food, stupid | Grist. I’ve met people who do control their ADHD with diet.
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Viaduct Earthquake Simulation (The SunBreak)
Op-Ed: Shut Down the Viaduct Now | The SunBreak. I had thought that transforming the Viaduct into a city park would have been a good idea, but this reminds me of the destruction from the Loma Prieta earthquake.
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Buy every person in our state a bike! (Seattle Bike Blog)
Sad but true: …spend $300 per state resident to build a tunnel that would only help 47,000 car drivers while causing injury or death to an unknown number of people walking or bicycling in downtown Seattle. Instead of a tunnel, let’s buy every person in our state a bike | Seattle Bike Blog.
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