October 29, 2023
20 Homeschool Conferences: The Things I've Witnessed At Them Shocked Me.
A mom enters our booth in the exhibitor hall in Missouri. In Ohio, a mom breezes into our booth. I am in Texas, my home state. I am sitting in my booth in South Carolina. “What do you mean, ‘woke’?” I ask. She opens her mouth. Half-words and phrases stumble and tumble around. A few talking points from news sources fall out. Finally, she sighs. “I don’t know. Just tell me again what you write.”
A quarter of a century later, the show continues
Dropped on the world as a kind of polished, keenly self-aware zine at the dawn of what would become the era of digital publishing, McSweeney’s was, in other words, a Statement, an anti-magazine created by rogue magazine professionals. Eggers had already cofounded Might, a short-lived San Francisco magazine with a cult following, but McSweeney’s was simultaneously more ambitious and stripped down. “This thing will be more about trying new, and almost certainly misguided, ideas,” he wrote in an email to would-be contributors in 1998. “It’ll be fun, and if we’re not careful, we might make publishing history!” Eggers expected it to run for four issues, eight at the most, but he was so wrong. from Dave Eggers’s Pirate Ship
"That's how totalitarian systems operate."
"It's definitely the most Canadian thing I've done."
Gordon lives again!!!
“A lone spaceship crash-lands on Mongo - - three humans on a mission of peace. An athlete, a traveler and a mad, desperate scientist. Alone against an empire.” - Flash Gordon returns in style with a new daily comic strip. Creator interview with Dan Schkade.
"He’s already too busy making everyone laugh up there.”
Matthew Perry, Emmy-nominated ‘Friends’ star, dead at 54 Apparently he drowned unexpectedly in the hot tub yesterday. LA Times article on it. [more inside]
Digital Public Spaces -- Governance and Stewardship
Let the community work it out: Throwback to early internet days could fix social media’s crisis of legitimacy. [more inside]
color coded areas by cat: yellow (Scribbles); red (Coriander)...
How do cats use space? Part 3: Looking at relationships (with Dr. Delgado's cats). Part 2: Multiple & separated key resources. Part 1: In the original study "the density of cats was much higher than that observed in studies of outdoor cats (113,000 cats/km2)." Dr. Mikel Maria Delgado has also shared research on can kittens do math and the Feline Grimace Scale, a tool that can quickly identify pain in most cats.
The internet is full of tubes
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