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Manage Your Twitter following and followers
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links for 2008-05-19
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"A new breed of tinkerers mix science and craft to make things both goofy and grand..."
Lewis Butterfly Garden Project
At Lewis, we are in the middle of creating a butterfly garden near the west side entrance to the building. This is being led by our Americorps Volunteer, Julia Hamlin, and with the help of many parents. Tomorrow, Sunday, May 18, we are having a work party to finish the project. Below are some images from our work this past week...
Challenge Month Won't Change Antonia's Routine...
Challenge Month won't Change Antonia's Routine.:
The folks over at the Bicycle Transportation Alliance have a nice profile of one of my students, Antonia. Antonia rides her bike to school every day, rain or shine. The article also talks about the involvement of Lewis in the BTA's Walk and Bike Challenge...
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News and updates on the Phoenix Mars Mission... they even have a Twitter feed...
The Giant Pool of Money: This American Life
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This American Life :The Giant Pool of Money
If you are wondering how we got into this housing/credit crisis take a listen to this episode from This American Life. This episode is a joint production with NPR News and it very effectively describes how the crisis came to be.
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"The masses in China are overwhelming; the people in them are vividly and irrepressibly individual."
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Speak to iTunes Audiobook Service
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Michael Tyson, a Computer Science PhD student, living in Melbourne, Australia, has created a service (Speak to iTunes Audiobook Service) running on Mac OS X that converts any text to an iTunes compatible audio file. Select some text, invoke the service, and his tool converts the text into a spoken file using the Mac OS X text to speech tool. The file is placed in the Audiobooks section of your iTunes collection.
I installed the service and converted a few articles. I found the result to be pretty good. Not the same as having had it read by a person, but useful none the less.
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links for 2008-05-11
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"Brightkite is a location-based social network that enables people to take their online profiles with them into the real-world and make real-world friends."