Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Freak Show

The Carnival of Bad History

Broken Links

The White House website is getting scrubbed.

Crackberry

CrackBerry.com, the #1 site FOR CrackBerry Users and Abusers, built and operated BY CrackBerry Users and Abusers.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Government Toys

Danger Room, a new WIRED blog on defense and security

Money Buys Happiness

Almanac of American Wealth from Fortune.

New Meaning

Wordsource - The online dictionary is reborn. Never leave your browser addressbar. Go to word.sc/

Monday, February 26, 2007

iKata

AKBAN-wiki, The biggest martial arts encyclopedia - Hundreds of techniques in video in this fast growing martial arts encyclopedia. Techniques collecting is almost complete for Judo, Muai tai and Ninjutsu and now centers around Karate.

You'll Love This

UTRACK Movies - Online DVD collection software which allows you to share you collection with your friends and track which friends have borrowed your movies.

Searching For Meaning

MetaGlossary - A website of socially suggested definitions.

Sunday, February 25, 2007

Worth Your Time

A to Z Complete Podcast Collection - This page lists the free, smart podcasts worth your time on iTunes. Download them, synch them, and put that iPod to good educational use.

Cream Of The Crop

Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) - Create a search engine for kids by limiting sites searched to kid-friendly websites; create a search for you and your colleagues that's limited to university sites or a select group of professionally-vetted resources; or even create your own personal search engine that combs through your favorite recipe websites. It's all free, and there's no limit to how many CSEs you can create. In the short time since launch, over 100,000 CSEs have been created by people with all kinds of interests and purposes.

Here are some examples worth exploring:
Lucy Gray's Research Sites for Kids
The Librarian's E-Library
Deb Morrissey's ALA Best of Free Reference
Tamas Simon's Digital Reading Search
Bill Drew's Google Custom Search for WLANs and Libraries

Burning Down The House

Reports from a Warming Planet

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Were The Kids In America

UNICEF released a report, Child Poverty in Perspective: An Overview of Child Well-Being in Rich Countries, which specifically addresses childhood in the 21 most-developed nations in the world. The study uses six categories: material well-being, family and peer relationships, health and safety, behavior and risks, and children's own sense of well-being (educational and subjective).

In overall well-being, the U.S. and U.K. respectively place 20th and 21st out of 21 countries.

Very Creative Writing

The Thousand and One Flat World Tales Project - Aggregates narratives written by students from around the world. Some stories get promoted to blog status, hence the term "blook." It's already segmented into age groups and by language. Students and teachers can collaborate, reflect, revise together, within or between schools.

Next Generation

UNICEF's State of the World's Children 2007 reports on children in almost every nation in the world, with statistics, video profiles of individual children, and interactive charts and graphs.

Friday, February 23, 2007