Current Ramblings
Tuesday, December 02, 2003
Some links for the afternoon:
Ancient Roman D20s are just mad geeky.
Also mad geeky, CNN.com's got an article about Segways that shows the further progression of the Segway->mecha evolution. Y'see, while everybody else was picking on the Segway when it came out, I realized what it truly was: the Missing Link in the design evolution of mecha. We could make arms that move, legs that walk - and now we can make the whole thing balance right. Though the AI applications the military wants are fine by me, too.
I hate to wax political, but stuff like this other CNN.com article on standardized testing and special ed students really makes me seriously wonder if the whole point of this "No Child Left Behind" law is to deliver public schools into the hands of private companies just like Bush has delivered everything else to them. You can not seriously create a law mandating that 99% of students must pass a standardized grade-level test without making an exception for seriously disabled students and, realistically, ESL students. (Though I suppose you could hold the ESL kids up to the same math standards.) It's clearly engineered either by people with no understanding whatsoever of special education or people who simply want the schools to fail and be turned over to private corporations.
I'm off today, and I'll likely be bored, so maybe I'll weigh in on other exciting things later. In the meantime, if you are also not at work, you could go snicker at/get off on the contributions at www.transformerotica.com. My friend Lithrael has some Highly Questionable Art there.
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