You Don’t Get 500 Million Friends, Apparently, Without Chewing a Lot of Scenery Every once in a while over the last year and a half or so, I’ve thought to myself: “Oh,...
California Schools Testing Algebra eTextbooks on the iPad The Fresno Bee and Washington policy-wonk blog The Hill report on the move by California schools to test iPad...
San Bruno Gas Explosion Viral Media Roundup Having arrived about 20 minutes early to pick someone up at San Francisco Airport yesterday, I figured I’d pull...
Google Instant: You’re Searching NOW. Look, it’s not like I have a problem with Google. I keep hating on the galaxy-sized faceless soulless vat-grown...
September Techyum—>Banksy Mash Note Part 2: Oil Spill Children’s Ride A brief post on Greenmuze.com directs me to this Banksy installation in Brighton, about 90 minutes south of London:...
America’s Next Teen-Mental-Health Panic? Self-Embedding! CNN has a fairly level-headed post by Elizabeth Landau on something called self-embedding behavior, in which “teens” shove things...
BP Helped Develop California’s Environment Curriculum Here in California, we believe that those who can, do, and those who do should also teach. That’s why...
Video of Man Scaling San Francisco’s Millennium Tower The man arrested last night for scaling San Francisco’s 60(ish) story Millennium Tower — that’s the big one that...
Labor Day Gun Pr0n Does anybody know what Labor Day really celebrates? Guns! Weapons! America! The Second Amendment! The Can-Do Spirit of Heavily-Armed...
Iconic Artist Banksy Interviewed (and Photographed!) Laughing Squid alerts me to a momentous interview with iconic guerrilla street artist Banksy, in today’s issue of UK...