Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-15-2009

[andrewducker]

• Extreme Thinking
  How to train yourself to think better
  (tags: intelligence philosophy inspiration selfimprovement thinking education learning science)
• Cinco Games - It's Not Jackie Chan!
  A board game for all the family!
  (tags: funny video spoof)
• James Barnett - Paintings of Video Games
  Fallout 3 and Half Life 2, I think.
  (tags: art gaming videogames aesthetics)
• Bride's bouquet brings down plane
  Right. Crossing that one off the marriage plans
  (tags: wedding marriage EpicFail)
• National Statistics Online -Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings - 2008 Results
  Oooh, the fun.
  (tags: data economics statistics earnings economy money)

Comments

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

what is extreme about this?

Very much my response. Although for someone talking well out of their home territory he's not absurdly wrong, I'd say. It's pretty much my field (I'm an academic in technology-enhanced learning) and you could pick his points out of the literature very easily (though probably a lot more helpfully). Social aspects of learning in particular are red-hot at the moment and have been for some time.

[simont]

someone talking well out of their home territory

This phrase gave me the odd idea that "home territory" was an anatomical euphemism :-)

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

*laughs* If the topic is learning then I think that is a very fair point.