this is dumb

If I was any of the people involved in this story, I would be really, really pissed. That's just crazy. I really hope that lawsuits get filed and people win. There's no way this should happen...

new forms of teaching

Wired has a cool article on a teacher here in Michigan who uses a very non-traditional teaching style and seems to get great results. I wonder how this would work in a more traditional class, though...

"surveys"

You know what I'm really sick of? Those stupid "surveys" they hand out at school that ask about your future career and stuff like that. All they really do is give your name and address to the places which then sell your information, which in turn subject you to a deluge of "targeted mail" (cough spam cough). Gar. I think I'm going to start refusing to fill them out. I don't want junk mail. On the same token, who gave Internic the right to publish customer addresses in the whois records? They should be shot.

segfault

Amazing! Segfault actually had a parody article that's interesting. Albeit on an overplayed topic, but I'll point to it anyway.

screenshot

For those of you who care, I just put a new screenshot up in the Linux section.