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Obama Calls for New Declaration of Independence

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Speaking in Philadelphia as he begins his train trip to Washington, the president-elect calls on Americans to emulate the courage of the nation’s founders.

America needs “the same perseverance and idealism that our founders displayed…. A new declaration of independence, not just in our nation, but in our own lives – from ideology and small thinking, prejudice and bigotry.”

Read his prepared remarks.

The Page – by Mark Halperin – TIME.

SketchUp: Why Kids With Autism Love It

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

A program created for architects is an unexpected hit with children on the spectrum.

SketchUp: Why Kids With Autism Love It | Newsweek Health | Newsweek.com.

Science is rich with happy flukes. Remember the story of penicillin? Alexander Fleming discovered the bacteria-destroying mold by accident when he left a culture dish uncovered in his lab in 1928. Eight decades later, here’s another one: a Googlesoftware program called SketchUp, which was intended largely for architects and design professionals, has found a very unexpected and welcome fan base—children with autism. SketchUp is not only entertaining kids with autism spectrum disorders, it’s providing them with skills that might one day help them as they age out of school and into the workforce.

Technology News: Wikis: Collaboration and the Productivity Revolution

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Technology News: Wikis: Collaboration and the Productivity Revolution.Collaboration is one of the underestimated facets of Web 2.0, but it’s one that businesses should not ignore, writes PBWiki CEO Jim Groff. The real opportunity of Web 2.0 is allowing business-to-business collaboration, which improves productivity.

The Web 2.0 revolution has spawned hundreds of cover stories, thousands of companies, and millions of words of hype. But there’s one thing it hasn’t brought: Profits.

With the coming of the credit crunch and the global recession, hype won’t pay the bills. That’s why the next wave of Web 2.0 will be using collaboration to help businesses do more with less.

Read complete article…

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  • February 6
    “Imagine a gathering of worldly-minded, timorous people whose highest law in everything is a slavish regard for what others, what ‘they’ will say and judge, whose sole concern is that unchristian concern that ‘everywhere they speak well’ of them, whose admired goal is to be just like the others, whose sole inspiring and whose sole […]
  • February 5
    “And are there not many people who are like that, who own nothing except in the moment when they show it to others, who grasp only the surface, not the essence, who lose everything if this appears…” ——————————————————– ~Source: Either/Or (1843) Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Victor Eremita Filed under: Blooms Tagged: Either/Or, Victor […]
  • February 4
    “All ironical observations depend upon paying attention to the ‘how,’ whereas the gentleman with whom the ironist has the honor to converse is attentive only to the ‘what.’ A man protests loudly and solemnly, ‘This is my opinion.’ However, he does not confine himself to delivering this formula verbatim, he explains himself further, he ventures […]
  • February 3
    “It is not impossible that it might occur to man to imagine himself the equal of God, or to imagine God the equal of man, but not to imagine that God would make himself into the likeness of man; for if God gave no sign, how could it enter into the mind of man that […]
  • February 2
    “So they sat in their quiet sorrow: they did not harden themselves against the consolation of the world; they were humble enough to acknowledge that life is a dark saying, and as in their thought they were swift to listen to see if there might be an explanatory word, so were they also slow to […]
  • February 1
    “But when it is a duty to love, there no test is needed and the insulting stupidity of wishing to test is superfluous; since love is higher than any proof, it has already more than met the test, in the same sense that faith ‘more than conquers.’ The very fact of testing always presupposes a […]
  • January 31
    “Why did Kant begin with quantity, Hegel with quality?” ——————————————————– ~Source: The Journals (1842) Author: Søren Kierkegaard Filed under: Blooms Tagged: The Journals (1842) […]
  • January 30
    “Oh, the sins of passion and of the heart — how much nearer to salvation than the sins of reason!” ——————————————————– ~Source: The Journals (18??) Author: Søren Kierkegaard Filed under: Blooms Tagged: The Journals […]
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