Valedictorian's speech against American-style schooling.

I almost scrolled past this one, but the headline caught my eye:

Half of preschool girls worry about fat.

That's just... sad. Very very sad. Nobody that young should be concerned that much with their physical appearance. :-(

Anyone else remember this show? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VthsQVsXwEg

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Back when I was in the process of switching over from Yahoo Mail to Google Mail, I made a couple mistakes on the Arcamax site, which is a site that emails cartoons, jokes, and newsletters that people subscribe to. I was trying to switch all my Arcamax things to Gmail, but two things I thought were New Yorker cartoons ended up being ( Read more... )

One of my LJ friends, lanyel, defriended me. This happens occasionally and sometimes I just have this burning desire to know why, so I went to his LJ and asked what I did wrong. This was his response:

No you didn't do anything wrong. The other people that i cut from my journal, i cut because i was not reading their journals anymore. I removed yours only ( Read more... )

On the news just now was a thing about a program some schools are trying, where they pay kids to do well in school. Kids can earn as much as $100 every two weeks thanks to the program, which is half funded by corporations and other private funds. There's controversy about it, even though it's working. The people against it are saying things like ( Read more... )

Looking for a job? The US government is hiring: www.usajobs.gov

Mattell announces a "Dora The Explorer" for tweens. Basically, an older, better-looking Dora. Which is good, I hope they make a "grown-up Dora" version of the TV show, too, because the usual version of the character is ugly, and the show is unwatchable.

From the FreeRangeKids blog: ( Read more... )

Potpourri

How kids in England are smeared in the press. About children's human rights.

One laptop per child... in Afghanistan?

Periodic table of cupcakes, complete with recipes.

Teenager's science fair project may solve the plastic decomposition problem once and for all.

Hey, Ilinois has the right idea! They declared Pluto a planet! YAY ( Read more... )