Organic Mutant Archives: education
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13 September 2006
The real ‘Path to 9/11′
From the thoughtful minds at In These Times, an unusual analyasis of how 9/11 impacted us. An exerpt:
Whatever the natural similarities between December 7, 1941, and September 11, 2001, the association of the two has led us to convert—first in rhetoric, later in fact—a battle against a small band of clever, murderous fundamentalists into a [...]
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7 July 2006
Oil at $75 a barrel: Cheap!
According to the apparently infallible geniuses at MarketWatch, crude oil is well on its way to triple digits . That’s right, $100 per barrel within a year. Let’s see … gas in San Francisco is about $3.50 a gallon. Add 33% (the difference between $75 and $100, natch) and we are at $4.65 a gallon [...]
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26 June 2006
Word of the Day
Calling this post the ‘Word of the Day’ is an outright lie, and you know it. Why? Because posting a link to a word once like, every four months, is about as far from ‘daily’ as I am from owning a house in San Francisco (far). But unfortunately, I have no other potential headline I [...]
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2 June 2006
Weekly Reader: Was the 2000 Election Stolen?
This post is the first of a weekly series of stolen or copied articles that I’d like to share with my readership. These ‘readers’, as I call them, are articles on topics of interest, formatted for reprinting. So enjoy.
This week:Rolling Stone’s article about voter disenfranchisement in Ohio during the 2004 presidential elections.
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1 June 2006
totally!!! web 2.0 killed the textual star
what he said…
some of the reason that we finally upgraded was flickr, youtube & music (25 minutes to legally download a song is too long no matter how good the song finally is, nevermind the stuff that’s not).