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California appelate court upholds CA law saying that anyone who home schools has to be a certified teacher. Teachers union happy, parents not.
links for 2008-03-10
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links for 2008-03-09
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Forbes’ article on Martin Eakes, leader of Center for Responsible Lending.
links for 2008-03-07
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Funny tech support transcripts.
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Roast your own coffee beans with a hot-air popcorn popper.
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If someone showed up to play me with an Armani tennis racquet I’d be doubly inspired to beat him like a drum.
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Expensive placebos are more effective than cheap placebos. In other words the placebo effect can be influenced by the perceived value of the placebo.
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Study shows small companies create more jobs than larger businesses.
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Kids given detention because they paid for their lunches with pennies.
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Good recommendations for soccer players dealing with shin guard rash.
links for 2008-03-06
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Ad agencies being dis-intermediated? Steve Rubel links to a presentation at IAB by Christopher Vollmer of Booz Allen Hamilton that says that media companies are doing a lot more creative and many media types and marketers expect to be doing more business
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Best explanation for why one would coach that I’ve seen.
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Post mentions three ways to add to home wi-fi network experience, including a wi-fi extender and a network USB hub, but the third is most interesting. It’s the Eye-Fi, which is an SD card for cameras that allows for wireless picture transfers using the w
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Blog platform provider WordPress buys BuddyPress a service that sounds like it enables WordPress users to create customized social networks via WordPress plug-ins. Some interesting possibilities here.
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1,000 True Fans basically outlines what artists and other producers need to do to make a living in the world of the Long Tail. Great read found via Godn’s blog.
links for 2008-03-04
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Amaker working his “magic” at Harvard.
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Bush and Rice strike! Or as Cone put it: Bay of Pigs meets Iran Contra.
Let’s Get a Physical
Lack of preparation can be a real pain in the tookus. My daughter needs a physical in order to try out for her school’s soccer team and since her regular doctor is booked solid for the next millenium we had to do the walk-in thing at the PrimeCare off of Hanes Mall Blvd. Two hours of sitting with the hackers and wheezers of the city has gotten us into the exam room…yeeha! Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
links for 2008-03-03
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Article in L.A. Times on NAFTA.
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Fec reports on Wal-Mart’s answer to 2-buck Chuck. If I didn’t hate going into Wal-Mart so much I might consider trying it.
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Helene links to a great image of “50 Reasons Not to Change”. Ranges from “It’s too ambitious” to “I’m all for it, but…”
links for 2008-03-02
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First sentence of the article: “Mortgage foreclosure notices are going out so fast that in some states the number of new foreclosure proceedings each month is greater than the number of homes sold that month.” Lovely.
links for 2008-03-01
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Great resources for phone web use.
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Fuld war game competition for b-schools. Topic: wireless communications.
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BNET’s list of competitive intel sources.
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Steve Barth’s take on the Pew study showing that 1% of Americans are in jail.
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If you wonder what the heck a derivative is then this is the site for you.
links for 2008-02-29
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Dave Ribar says what I was thinking when I read the quote from White House spokesman Tony Fratto in reaction to Joseph Stiglitz’s book The Three Trillion Dollar War. Fratto’s got a lot of gall saying Stiglitz has a lack of courage and Ribar points out wh
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Fred Wilson’s pointers on choosing board members. He’s writing of companies, but many attributes of good board members apply for non-profit boards as well.
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RSS for CI for lawyers.
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