From the Citizens’ Resource 2006 Candidate Preview:
Video: 2006 Utah Candidates for U.S. Senate
From the Citizens’ Resource 2006 Candidate Preview:
Video: Exposing Pernicious Perceptions of Beauty
As a father of two intelligent and beautiful daughters, I have pondered at times the need to inoculate our young girls against the false ideas of beauty that are emphasized so much in our culture.
Perhaps one way to combat the social virus is by exposing the lie in a very visual way. I think that the following video does just that in a short but stunning 1 minute 15 seconds:
Watch it at the Google Video website
I suggest viewing the video more than once and paying close attention to the manipulations made after the photographs are taken.
Timewasters & Interesting Links
Over time I run into links that I would like to blog about but don’t find the time. So here is a random list of timewasters and interesting links that I would have blogged about had I had the time:
1. Wordy
Wordy is a fascinating and addictive online macromedia flash game that combines the classic word-finding game Bloggle with the falling tile action of Tetris. The only thing that is annoying about it is that it doesn’t recognize a some words that I know are valid. I guess they need to expand the game’s dictionary. Check it out.
2. Javascript Visual Wordnet
This website is interesting on two levels. If you are interested in language, it generates an animated, visual relationship cloud for any word for which you search. Yo can click on any word in the cloud to generate its cloud. From a Javascript programming standpoint it is also fascinating.
3. Same Language Subtitling
Dr. Brij Kothari has an interesting idea for improving literacy through same-language subtitling for T.V. and Movies. I’m curious about the effectiveness of this approach.
4. Zelda Classic
If you loved the original classic video game The Legend of Zelda, this free reproduction for the PC is wonderful. Download it and enjoy!
5. Finding Mudbugs in Utah
An article about how to catch crayfish in Utah (something I wish I had known when I was a kid!).
6. Scientists Say They’ve Found a Code Beyond Genetics in DNA
Check out this article from the NY Times on a possible additional code superimposed on the already familiar DNA code.
7. Death and Taxes
A visual guide to where your federal tax dollars go. It is both captivating and repulsive at the same time!
8. Online Collections at BYU
Too many great resources to describe. Just check it out.
Orson Scott Card on Intellectual Groupthink
Check out this excellent article by Orson Scott Card entitled Groupthink and the Intellectual Elite
Excerpt:
One of the most amusing things about the movement to force immigrants to speak only English is that we have a much more serious language problem on our hands—and it’s centered in the universities.
There are whole departments where English has been effectively banned and replaced with “Theoretics,” a language designed so that the speaker can make the listener feel stupid without the speaker actually having to be smart.
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Category: politics
Tagged: education, english, intellectualism, language
Category: politics
Tagged: education, english, intellectualism, language
