The Commissar’s Deck of Cards:
…a deck of 52 playing cards to assist our troops in Blogistan to identify dangerous bloggers, regime holdouts, and hardcore Blaa-blaah-ists.
is good for a chuckle and some serious hunting.
Via Kevin Aylword who is the 8 of spades.
My best score is 1136 so far. I’ll get a few more swings in (and maybe a post or two)during the repeated lapses in action during the other game this afternoon.
Via Sugarfused.
Give the Wikipedia a try. Heck, contribute to it.
Dan Gilmour has an update. It is:
an encyclopedia created and operated by volunteers, is one of the most fascinating developments of the Digital Age. In just over three years of existence, it has become a valuable resource and an example of how the grass roots in today’s interconnected world can do extraordinary things.
Almost anyone can be a contributor to the Wikipedia. Almost anyone can edit almost any page. (Only serious misbehavior gets people banned.) Thousands of people around the world have added their expertise, and new volunteers show up every day.
For instance, is your junior high student writing a report on weblogs. S/he could do worse then starting here. Many of you could probably find something useful to add to the entry.
Via Prestopundit.
Ok, I haven’t picked on someone’s use of the english language in a long time.
From Ampersand who picked it up from Trish Wilson:
George W. Bush on January 23, 2004
The illiteracy level of our children are appalling.
’nuff said.
Well, not quite enough. Trish quotes the entire paragraph for context and w’s closing sentence is:
I expect you, as mayors, to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations. I challenge you to keep raising that bar and standards.
I probably have no hope of ever understanding what he means by ‘soft bigotry’ but I do know that low expectations is a problem that does permeate our culture
“Though your qualifications are quite impressive, I regret to inform you that we have selected another candidate. It was felt that your demeanor and therefore presence in the classroom would serve as an unrealistic expectation as to what high school students could strive to achieve or become.
and that setting high expectations can lead to success.
Thanks to Resurrection Song and The World Wide Rant for the pointer to the Marquis Harris story.
Hmmm, would any of those well coded electronic voting machines perform like this?