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'The approach Ms. McNeill uses, in which students choose their own books, discuss them individually with their teacher and one another, and keep detailed journals about their reading, is part of a movement to revolutionize the way literature is taught in America’s schools.'
links for 2009-08-30
links for 2009-08-29
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Homebrew SCUMM game centered on Han Solo.
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'A collection of wallpapers of scenic views in Warcraft.'
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'Research has directed programming toward phonics and reading fundamentals as the front line of the literacy fight. Reading Rainbow occupied a more luxurious space — the show operated on the assumption that kids already had basic reading skills and instead focused on fostering a love of books.'
links for 2009-08-27
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'It’s obvious, in retrospect, that a lot of the door games that existed 20 years ago pioneered a lot of the same techniques that social games use today.'
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' Through discovering and analyzing the artistic elements therein, we will hopefully give students a greater understanding of how the individual aspects of video games come together to create a form of art that is truly unlike any other.'
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'Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, a son of one of the most storied families in American politics, a man who knew triumph and tragedy in near-equal measure and who will be remembered as one of the most effective lawmakers in the history of the Senate, died late Tuesday night. He was 77.'
links for 2009-08-25
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'A community website to classify typefaces and educate people about them. Think of it like a mix between IMDb and Wikipedia, but just for type.'
links for 2009-08-22
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1400 character minimum, heh.
links for 2009-08-21
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'Players can be thought of as "routes" through the network. The implication of Braess's Paradox is that removing the best player can sometimes improve a team's performance, a phenomenon Skinner calls the Ewing Paradox.'
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'a central clearinghouse for datasets published by the City & County of San Francisco. The site allows you to find datasets in several ways: general search, tags/keywords, categories, and rating. The goal is to improve access to city data through open machine-readable formats.'
links for 2009-08-20
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'Tracing Emigre's development from its early bitmap design days in the late 1980s through to the experimental layouts that defined the so called "Legibility Wars" of the late 1990s, to the critical design writing of the early 2000s.'
links for 2009-08-18
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Lego. Voltron. Whoa.