Interesting Links for 09-06-2012
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andrewducker- The Pirate Bay evades ISP blockade with IPv6, can do it 18 septillion more times
- RSA Animate - Crises of Capitalism
- John Carmack talks about what's wrong with virtuality reality headsets, and what he's doing about it.
- Turns out that giving children good books to read makes them, well, read.
- The first time I've actually laughed at a ventriloquist. Pure genius.
- An Open Letter to Ridley Scott Regarding Prometheus
- Jason Alexander Calls Cricket A "Gay Sport," Writes The Greatest Apology Ever
- Are most homosexuals 'indifferent' to gay marriage?
- Children warned name of first pet should contain 8 characters and a digit | NewsBiscuit
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Date: 2012-06-09 12:14 pm (UTC)Don't get me started on Michael bloody Rosen, who, to the best of my knowledge has never taught a mixed-ability class to read.
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Date: 2012-06-09 05:02 pm (UTC)I was forced at school to read through an utterly dreadful series of "learn to read" books; although my experience of them as simply dreadful and in no-way helpful was probably exacerbated (if not entirely caused) by the fact that I could *already read* at a much better level (insisting on assuming the entire class is at the same level FAIL). Miracle they didn't put me off reading for life; good books that are written to be entertaining are much better at teaching that books are *worth reading*, but as a teaching aid for learning the skill of *how to read* in a class room setting (I learned from 'real' books at my mother's knee; but she was only supervising the one of me) I've no idea.
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Date: 2012-06-09 12:27 pm (UTC)I mean, otherwise, give up on any zombie or Frankenstein film.
I do think that it was dumb to shoehorn a meta-Christian fable into a monster movie, given that all the audience wanted was xenomorphs in 3D, but, whatever - we got to see monsters killing people and it was pretty.
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Date: 2012-06-09 01:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-09 01:08 pm (UTC)•Turns out that giving children good books to read makes them, well, read.
Date: 2012-06-09 12:44 pm (UTC)Re: •Turns out that giving children good books to read makes them, well, read.
Date: 2012-06-09 12:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-09 07:01 pm (UTC)Re: •Turns out that giving children good books to read makes them, well, read.
Date: 2012-06-11 01:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-09 05:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-10 12:42 am (UTC)Wouldn't references to "the heterosexual community" be laughed down? Come to think of it, are the "Log Cabin Republicans" part of the "homosexual community" or are they another one?
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Date: 2012-06-10 12:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-10 02:28 pm (UTC)Let me make some wild, hand-waving estimates. Call the population 40% adult male. Take the figure I vaguely recall attributed to Kinsey of 3-6% homosexual. (I am not championing a particular estimate, just taking a convenient, arguably conservative number.) That's 1.2-2.4% of the total population.
Is the gay section of your city 2% of the total population? (Not even counting inmigration, which would make it 2% of a larger region.) Where's everybody else?
My point is simply that I suspect there is a substantial "everybody else". Just human diversity.
Oh, where I am physically is in Chicago.
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