what makes a website useful?
google does presentation and display pretty well - but if the website adds structure and tools and clues
Golda Velez
Huppenthal barefaced lie?
2011-06-20 The Huffington Post ran a hard-hitting article Jun 17:Did Arizona Education Chief Huppenthal Commit a Felony in Growing Ethnic Studies Scandal?
Read it for yourself - the Tucson Weekly has posted a full PDF of the ethnic studies audit online
The audit appears to be a thorough review
rails and open content and non-coding technology
franchise restaurant = convention over configuration but, the key is documented convention otherwise you just have a bunch of mysterious dependencies
Randy Parraz Interview
The cool thing about citizen journalism is you get to talk to really neat people. I talked to Randy Parraz, who led the Pearce recall effort, back in June. His voice was a little raspy after talking to thousands of voters, and the day after turning in the petitions he
"I just want to emphasize the point that we are disconnected from reality"
Quotes from Shoot an Iraqi by Wafaa Bilal and Kari Lydersen.
Thought-provoking book...raw, kind of a flat humor without hatred even though a US military drone killed his brother, and Saddam killed numerous other family members. Some quotes :
"Solitude was such sweetness to me that it was worth
Books are mature memes
The larval stage is when living in the host's brain; metamorphosis is the act of writing; and the mature stage capable of reproduction is in written form.
Sometimes larval stage ideas reproduce in casual conversation, but mass reproduction is almost always after metamorphosis. Even ideas transmitted in speeches
Recall Pearce campaign - no, campaigns!
I didn't even know there is a strong effort out to recall Russell Pearce, the Arizona State Senator who has perhaps done the most harm to Arizona and to Tucson.
** Update - There were actually TWO efforts to recall pearce, and the first one posted, Arizonans for Better
Tucson's Future Mayor?
Quite a bit, according to Jonathan Rothschild, the Democratic candidate apparent. Rothschild, currently a $295/hr attorney, intends to drop out of his law practice and dedicate his 12-hour workdays to 'doing whatever it takes' to make Tucson thrive.
We (myself and two of my daughters) interviewed Rothschild
Animal care by difficulty level
We have taken care of a lot of different creatures the last few years, and I thought I'd post a quick summary of what we've found as to the difficulty of keeping them happy (the fully detailed methods of care aren't here, will post
Project Links
Ok, why am I letting facebook, twitter and junk mail budget my time? Need my own work home page that guides me to use time for my projects.
Top priorities: bPhx data mashery ; wiki, updates and factual table for Alonovo bteaching articles ; bTucson data sources
bPhoenixAZ.com : bPhoenixAz.com : got