Count me among the legions who have emailed my senator (in my case, Kerry) with a plea to stop the TSA insanity. It's on my realname blog, and I strenuously avoid putting my real name on LJ, so I can't direct-link (and I've screened comments just in case, though I expect to unscreen most or all of them). But for those of you who know my real name ( Read more... )

I just received this from projecttracker, forwarded from the HMC Board of Governors, forwarded from Prof. Bernoff:

Mike Moody died early this morning after a long and difficult battle with lymphoma; he was a cherished friend, mentor and inspiration to the members of the HMC Math Department ( Read more... )

Check it out: in 1869, John Stuart Mill understood the internet"So long as opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses instability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it. For if it were accepted as a result of argument, the refutation of the argument might shake the solidity of the conviction; but when ( Read more... )

Dear people on my flist who hate gluten! (Or, at least, whom gluten hates.) My cousin (who has celiac) has this company to help people find gluten-free products, warn each other about non-gluten-free products, find useful services, etc. It just came out of private beta so you should go have fun with it: Read more... )

Bleg: Whom do I know with ties to Lincoln Labs? Seriously, there must be tons of you and I'm just not remembering. Thanks.

Hi! I'm an idiot and I lost my phone. If I should have your number, you should email it to me. (If you don't have my email, am I really supposed to have your number?)

This sentence is important:

If we’re serious about closing the achievement gap and raising the level of performance of American education, we can’t be serious about asking teachers to walk on water and labeling them failures when they drown.

1. A Hope in the Unseen, Ron Suskind
2. City of Djinns, William Dalrymple
3. Dragon Prince, Melanie Rawn
4. Major: A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to Be the World's Fastest Human Being, Todd Balf
5. Stardust, Robert Parker
6. Inside Teaching, Mary Kennedy
7. The Tenth Circle, Jodi Picoult
8. Latin: How to Read it Fluently, Dexter Hoyos ( Read more... )

Hey, people who know stuff about toddler toys! (A category not including me, you see.) What does my 22-month-old want for Christmas ( Read more... )

LJ -- care to help me do my homework? I'm trying to find any information about K-12 school web sites that use tagging for navigation, resource discovery on the school web site itself, community building (or really anything else -- though ideally not library or teacher pages using tagging or social bookmarking for keeping track of research & ( Read more... )