The game's the thing: prof catches kids' attention with 'Speare
A computer game that aims to teach students literacy skills by exposing them to a high-tech version of Shakespeare was officially launched by a University of Guelph English professor on Monday.
CBC — Go have a look!
And congratulations to everyone involved! [As an aside, they used Raconteur to build their website: ApolloGames – now, there was an intense effort]
Latest Afghan abuse claims spark cries for O'Connor to resign
“There is no room for manoeuvre, no room for bargaining,” Attaran, a University of Ottawa professor, told CBC News. “The transfers must stop and must stop immediately.”
He said Hillier signed an agreement in December 2005 that allowed for the transfers, but didn’t include a clause giving the Canadianmilitary the right to inspectdetainees after transfers have taken place.
He said European countries that have transfer agreements have included this clause, which is crucial.
“If we hand detainees over to known torturers … and we tell them, ‘nudge, nudge, wink, wink, we will not be back to inspect them,’ that gives them a lot of latitude,” Attaran said.
CBC — This is not the first allegation of Canadian complicity with torturers in Afghanistan. I hope it is the last.
How Australian Authorities Respond to Potential Terrorists
Watch the video of how the Australian authorities react when someone – dressed either as an American or Arab tourist – films the Sydney Harbor Bridge and a nuclear reactor.
Schneier on Security — Basically the ‘American’ is told how to get into the nuclear reactor. The ‘Arab’ is ‘intercepted’ within three minutes.
Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all
Guardian Unlimited — Hmm.
One way to judge the scope of an app is to think about how much time you’re intended to spend using it. There’s plenty of room for apps you use here and there for a few minutes at a time, or which you launch just once or twice a week. There’s hardly any room at all, though, for apps you work in for hours at a time, every day.
By this measure, Coda, the new app from Panic, is an epic.
Daring Fireball — Coda from Panic is a fascinating new application. I’ve not had much of a chance to play with it myself yet. But, because of a few weblog entries like this one, and most importantly the number of friends emailing me to point it out, I will be looking very closely at ti.
Rico 2.0 extends the component set from the previous versions. The LiveGrid has been expanded to include filtering, column resizing, and many more features. The core of Rico 2.0 has been designed to enable custom components to be more easily built.
OpenRico — I liked Rico, I hope things work out.
My name is Christian and my profession is web design and programming. When I searched for a browser based slide show system which should answer my personal needs I encountered S5 (Simple Standards-based Slide Show System) from Eric Meyer. This format/program could match my concept of a slide show system best. Since the control panel and the features did not please me at all - I thought it could be a good thing to extend S5 to a higher level.
This release has largely been a stabilization release where we have spent more focus on Ruby compatibility. We are gearing up for a 1.0 release. Here are some of the more significant acheivements for 0.9.9
100 Well-Trained Hounds Being Fed
There are well over a million hits of this video on YouTube, but I’ve never seen this video, in which a hundred (or so) hunting hounds are … led into a room with a big pile of food, but instead of going nuts, they line up and wait for the proper signal. Then they go nuts.
Dethroner
