Link post!

[skreidle]

And now, beaucoup de links:

From reabhecc: Flash movie of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire", showing pictures of everything he's singing about. She also offers that "Liz, a girl in my IB history class, memorized this song for our Cold War test, and for the IB exam, becuase it helped her keep everything in chronological order." I wasn't even aware that it was so orderly. :)
(Direct link here)

From pendragon, a funny bit about Macs: Crash Differently.
(Direct link here)

From smandas: Winner of the "Let's Play the Public for Fools and Call a Rose by a Different Name" Award. Might not be that bad an idea, really. :P

From sebatical, Jimmy Carter's response to the above, including: "As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt to censor and distort the education of Georgia's students," Carter said in a written statement.

Several from jazzfish:

Flower-Power Could Help Clear Land mines: "The genetically modified weed has been coded to change color when its roots come in contact with nitrogen-dioxide (NO2) evaporating from explosives buried in soil."

The Corporation: "Diagnosis: the institutional embodiment of laissez-faire capitalism fully meets the diagnostic criteria of a psychopath."

Pickled dragon mystery: "The baby dragon, in a sealed jar, was discovered with a metal tin containing paperwork in old-fashioned German of the 1890s."

And from several people but most recently from weyakin, just in case you haven't seen it: A Whale of a Tale

From kelwyn: Robot Finds Kitten game!

Comments

[idoru.livejournal.com]

re: We Didn't Start the Fire:

my junior year, HUM2, we started American History with 1945 and went from there to about 1980 before going back to colonial times. we didn't have to MEMORIZE the song, but each person was assigned two [noun]s from the song to research and explain briefly.

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[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Good tactic, really. Keeps it interesting. :)

[ninjakitten]

Heh. When We Didn't Start the Fire came out, I was in Jr. High and my History teacher printed out sheets with the lyrics for us and played it over and over. :D

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[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Spiffy--good way to keep history interesting for the students. :D

[reverend-dave.livejournal.com]

"More than 100 Tainan city residents, mostly men, have reportedly gone to see the corpse to 'experience' the size of [the whale's] penis."

Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

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[skreidle.livejournal.com]

It's like Godzilla Cock!