Archive for the Month of October 2009

Learning!

American Sign Language I know only because of work:

Quiet
Sit down
Stop
No more/That’s it/None

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Auto-Tune the News

Have y’all seen these videos where these folks auto-tune the news? I truly hope so.
If not, WATCH THESE VIDEOS.
First up features my local representative, Steve Buyer, comparing smoking tobacco to smoking dried lettuce, I shit you not:

My second fav:

Check out more at The Gregory Brothers’ YouTube.

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That’s Nice

I’m going over some introductory information about a Praxis exam and it states,
This test may contain some questions that will not count toward your score.
Oh, yay! Just throwing them in for good measure, then?
Also,
Some of these questions are based on a case study of about 500 words that relates to the teaching of [...]

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Consuming Kids

A documentary I’m going to suggest my library purchase, Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood, has a trailer available:

What do you let your child/ren see and buy?

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On This Day in History

According to Wikipedia:
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

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