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@ijesspederson built my lunch with two (2) (both) pieces of end bread.

Related: Adobe. What’s happening to my CPU?

Giving talks drains me. It’s brutal to try to publicly convey information, to be the center of attention. I much much much prefer to be the one observing than the one speaking. But I feel like giving talks is important. So I speak. But it ain’t easy.

If you’ve spoken at conferences you can totally feel what she was going through. This reminds me a lot of a session I did for a bunch of staff where the shop teacher fell asleep and began snoring. Funny, sure. But what a mess.

Source: apophenia: spectacle at Web2.0 Expo… from my perspective

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Courtesy of the Fox affiliate in Chicago. Link

Education is a talent business and anyone who can gather the best talent will offer the best service and have the greatest success. This doesn’t mean that Stanford and MIT will die, far from it. But it means that some lesser institutions WILL die, while hybrid operations that are entirely new and different may well thrive.

Source: I, Cringely » Blog Archive » Burn Baby Burn – Cringely on Technology

Organizing community is the new professional development.

Here kitty kitty.

Skeptics who believe that a university is actually a diploma mill often prove their point by enrolling their cats in the university’s program and seeing whether the cat can get a degree. Some enterprising Wikipedians have assembled a list of several such cats.

Source: Cats with fraudulent diplomas – Boing Boing

We have officially achieved the trifecta. Cats + Internet + Education. No evidence of what was actually learned…

My work is done here. Go on reforming education without me. This is my calling.

“Kellogg, the nation’s largest cereal maker, is being called to task by critics who object to the swine flu-conscious claim now bannered in bold lettering on the front of Cocoa Krispies cereal boxes: ‘Now helps support your child’s IMMUNITY.’”

Critics blast Kellogg’s claim that cereals can boost immunity – USATODAY.com

Thanks to Christian Long for passing this gem along.