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Via QuakerQuaker and Martin Kelley, I found Jeanne’s Social Class & Quakers blog and her blog game on class. As she says,
It’s based on an exercise developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. . . . The exercise developers hold the copyright but have [...]

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The whole blog looks interesting, but this is the first post that caught my attention on Cabinet of Wonders: The Wonder of the Golden Proportions
Ever hear of the Golden Mean? Neither had I, until I was supposed to teach a graphic design course, and started (you know me) to do research on what, exactly, I [...]

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Astronomy Picture of the Day rationalizes including this really good optical illusion by relating it to the virtues of non-human observation in science.

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148 - Oh, Inverted World « strange maps. I subscribe to the RSS for the strange maps site. Sometimes what they find is just weird, but others it is mind-bending, like this one.

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I’ll only give you one line of setup for the coffeeshop story related at The Panopticon: Dawn of the Dumb
“Um, okay. Well, I have a lot of work to do, and I was really hoping you might be getting ready to leave.”
You’ll just have to go there to see the brilliant resolution to the drama.

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From the online version of Samuel Pepys’ Diary:
I lay close to my wife, being full of disorder and grief for my brother that I could not sleep nor wake with satisfaction, at last I slept till 5 or 6 o’clock.

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“Sayings of the Jewish Buddhist”
Be here now.
Be someplace else later.
Is that so complicated?
Tip of the hat to Noli Irritare Leones.

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If you look at the lists of presenters at conferences on web design, you might think there is no diversity. But that’s not true, and the discrepancy is pointed out now and again. There’s currently another go-around about it on and between a number of blogs. Jeremy Keith of Adactio has a good post: The [...]

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Sure, it’s a snap–it’s a snap to turn off those annoying previews, that is.

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