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My average keeps going down…boo

But for others, a 260 was accomplished today. Congrats JOFU.

Public education used to be considered important because we believed that it was advantageous to a society that large numbers of people in it be able to read, think, and reason.

The fact that we are seemingly not willing to pay for this any longer (I say we even though I live in Canada) seems to suggest that we don’t see the link between an educated populace and a decent society in which to live. (Or at least, that it’s okay if a lot of us don’t have access to it.) It is a spectacular failure of imagination.

We moronically complain about the cost of public education and related high taxes, but we never calculate the cost of not funding public education, even though those costs are staring us in the face every time we walk out the door.

I wish I knew how to turn this state of affairs into a photographic essay. It must be one of the most high profile failures of our culture. We used to have good public education and we are letting it slip away. How do you photograph stupidity?

—Robert Roaldi via TOP

A new bill has been introduced called the Internet Radio Equality Act, which would throw out the recent rate hike by the Copyright Royalty Board. Yay! More here.

Check this out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offensive_terms_per_nationality

Hilarious.

edit: and educational.

This is cool. A student designs an “economical” 3D object maker as a byproduct of his Ph.D thesis.

Our consecutive 3-pointer streak continues with Maurice Ager hitting two in the last 90 seconds of regulation. We were able to do it last year with Diop’s three in the closing minutes against the Clippers.

I was disappointed to hear that the appeal for internet radio stations to bypass royalties on copyrights was denied today. I love my DI and Sky. I’ve supported them in the past but this sucks. Anyone remember soma.fm? They went “off-air” the first time the ruling passed and was able to make it back on the internet airwaves, but this might be the final blow. I hate how much weight big companies can throw around through their advocacy and lobby groups. Internet radio is good stuff. Forget clearchannel.

As I was looking up S/S mesh for a work application, I came across Monel mesh which led me to looking up Monel on Wikipedia where I found the 10,000 year clock which was conceived by Danny Hillis:

I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every one hundred years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium. I want the cuckoo to come out every millennium for the next 10,000 years. If I hurry I should finish the clock in time to see the cuckoo come out for the first time.

Then I found a link to As SLow aS Possible (ASLAP), an organ piece written to be performed over 639 years. It started September 5th, 2001 and will end on that same date in the year 2640.

Happy Friday!