it’s all about control

Video feed of an African watering hole. Very cool.

frontline: a class divided | PBSOne day in 1968, Jane Elliott, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discrimination. This is the story of that lesson, its lasting impact on the children, and its enduring power thirty years later.
The day in question was the day after the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Trademark Blog – links to interesting trademark issues and dsiputes.

Mary Hudak, I would ask that you revisit your commitment to sentience and, for that matter, Sparkle Motion.

Lance Mannion: How to be morally superior to a Liberal. I wish I lived in the safe suburbs.

The Daily Show’s Rob Cordry on the circle of life

Placeopedia.com – Connecting Wikipedia articles with their locations
No commentary necessary.

• A list of interesting US Supreme Court rulings with a summary of the case.
• Find the Landmark – a game using Google Maps.
• The filthiest version of The Aristocrats that you have ever heard.
• Colorcode – a map of english based on the colour of images found when searching for that word.
• Hey Brad! – printers and guns.
• This guy writes to 100 US Senators and askes them to tell him their favourite joke.

Ahoy, mateys!

It be International Pirate Day, so ye’d best learn t’ swear like a seafarin’ hearty , translate yer mutterings into Sea-dog-ese, find yer true Buccaneer Name, or jus’ get yersef a dandy lookin’ ‘iPatch‘.

What’ere ye do, keep yer scurvy mitts off me grog and get on wi’ confoundin’ yer friends and loved ones. Or make ‘em walk th’ plank – yer choice.

as one commentor said: “My panda was sad until he saw this. Then he ate my neighboor. “

Katrina: The Gathering

(personal favorite: “Serendipitous News Crawl – do 3 damage to target creature ” (red card…)