Stars of the New Web (PC World via Yahoo! News) These six success stories show how anyone can earn fame--and perhaps make income--online....more...A lot of things can change in four years of a child's life (Telegraph-Forum) In a recent column, I pointed out that I haven't missed writing one a week since I took on this task a few years ago. "A few years ago," of course, was a vague way of saying I really couldn't recall when I started....more... EU treaty is a constitution, says Giscard d'Estaing (Independent) Gordon Brown faces a renewed row over Europe after a declaration by the former French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing that key parts of the European constitution remain "practically unchanged" in the new EU Reform Treaty....more... New Media Literacy And Education: What To Teach? Public Voice - Part 2 (MasterNewMedia.org) New media literacy is the key missing component from our schools curricula. If you are to provide to your kids the mental tools and the manual skills required by today society you must help your sons master early in their teenage years how to express and communicate in person as well as through analog and digital media. Photo credit: Tritooth mashed up by Robin Good The teachers your government ......more... Is Dumbledore Gay? Depends on Definitions of ?Is? and ?Gay? (New York Times) J. K. Rowling, the author of the ?Harry Potter? books, may think of Dumbledore as gay, but there is no reason why anyone else should....more... Digging Into the History of the Humble Toothpick (NPR) All Things Considered , October 28, 2007 · For author Henry Petroski, the simplest of instruments ? be it a pencil or a telephone keypad ? can offer fascinating stories of engineering, design and cultural history....more... Expert restores Bighorn Canyon relics (Casper Star-Tribune) BILLINGS, Mont. -- Cantankerous Western author, playgirl and cattle queen Caroline Lockhart liked to keep at least one bull snake in her house on the Dryhead just out of Lovell....more... Ghost stories: Dead but not gone (La Crosse Tribune) Mystery surrounds Blue Moon?s death, afterlife...more... Txt msgs creep in2 class; some say thats gr8 (The Standard-Times) MINNEAPOLIS ? Ask the students in Elisabeth Haen's journalism class if the text messages that they send so ubiquitously creep into their schoolwork and the hands go up and the smiles grow. ...more... |