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• Monetizing Robots, Duckies, and Amanda Modern day troubadour Jonathan Coulton is the latest cult-of-personality on Ze Frank’s GimmeSomeCandy micropayment platform. In related news - Amanda Congdon announced new projects with ABC News and HBO. Duckies, robots, and bananas for everyone!
• The Problems with School Choice Seems to me, programs that encourage parents to send their kids to schools outside of their immediate neighborhood is a bad idea in a number of ways: Gives parents no incentive to improve their schools or neighborhoods. Makes bad schools worse by reducing their resources. Redirects education dollars into fuel tanks to bus kids further away and back. Increases
• What I Want from Diapers - At a Glance Color Indicators There are a number of indicators to determine if Cooper’s diaper needs a changing: Is he screaming? Does the front of the diaper feel and look full? Are his clothing, blankets, or crib wet? As you can see, all the items in this list are what economists call lagging indicators. In addition, two of them have fairly unpleasant consequences. Continuing
• Anyone know a good source for downloadin… Anyone know a good source for downloading, local, independent music. Specifically, I’m looking for Minnesota-based or MN, WI, NoDak, SoDak, IA music. Thanks Update 27 April 2007: I’ve Googled for answer to this question and come up with a number of local music directory projects - some clearly abandon, others just useless. All of these projects (alive
• Spanking is Striking There, I said it. Spanking a child is child abuse. There, I said it again. For three reasons: If same action anywhere else on the body would be considered abuse - it’s abuse. It shows children that bigger, stronger people have the right to hurt smaller people. So, big brothers think it’s OK to strike their little brothers. Not