Musings of a peripatetic wannabe-sage: Clippings

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Clippings April 28-May 4, 2012

Clippings from my Google+

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Clippings April 24-27, 2012

Clippings from my Google+

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April 24 Clippings - label update

In an effort to reduce stress and use my tools, daily Clippings are now on my Google+ page. I may collect weekly "best of" clippings.

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Today's wandering includes the importance of paying attention, leaning out to serve better, being ourselves whether we're liked or not, the importance of maintenance, the importance of risk, history versus myth, and evaluating coolness.

Not A Shred Of Intelligence: Reading informational signs is a crucial skill all of us should hone and practice--especially when we're trying to finish something at the last minute. Seriously.
Spring Cleaning at Google: They are clearing out some apps, etc. Is yours there?
America Hates Los Angeles: The writer speculates that it's our freeway naming protocol. Whatever.
Breakdowns and delays plague Metro Blue Line: One cost of deferred maintenance
Famous People Who Have Failed (YouTube)
5 historical misconceptions corrected: I liked the Vomitoria best.
How to tell if a guy is actually cool: works to evaluate any person's coolness. I fail. Miserably.

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April 19 Clippings

Three Invaluable Lessons From Caine’s Arcade: responsibility, attention, sacrifice.
15 Ways to Write Tight: I like #11 "Think about how you would tweet your content."
Yawning Helps Keep Your Brain Cool: I saw this research. My friends humored me. Now I have a link. See.

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April 18 Clippings

Here comes the sun: Nasa cameras catch spectacular solar flare: creation is awesome, in both the nifty and scary ways.
Ripped from the context--"This president has brought us out of the dark and into the light": Um, no. That notion ONLY applies to the Messiah, Jesus. Further, Rasmussen's Presidential Tracking indicates that most Americans are very far from anything like agreement.
LAUSD grade requirements may make graduation tougher: Good! As long as quality teaching is allowed to flourish. "Passing" with a D does nothing to prepare a student for college or life.
LAX English: Short. Simple. Clear. That's how instructions should read.
The making of Thunderbirds: I think I need to buy a DVD set of Thunderbirds.

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April 17 Clippings

California always a bridesmaid: yeah. The guy I want to vote for has already dropped out. Now what?
Zombies Need Debt Too: um...yeah...
The Lutheran Insulter: a friend from work sent this to me. It has made me an even greater Luther fan. I had no idea he possessed such a wit. Nice.

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April 16 Clippings

Human remains possible at Titanic wreck site: Didn't hundreds of people die in the sinking? Why is the possible presence of bodies news?
Forbidden Fruits (& Veggies): Makes my quasi-meatatarian heart smile. :-)
Toddler Alerts Family To Garage Fire: Sometimes it's okay to make a ruckus!
Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi : Just because.

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April 13 Clippings

Other clippers

Challies: look for the "A La Carte" posts
The Gospel Coalition blog: look for Joe Carter's "Thirty Three Things"

Don't bash Twitter: Twitter helps free kidnapped South African from trunk of his car
How To Make An Oil Burning Lamp: good just-in-case skill
Assistive Technology Makes a Difference for Lukas Bratcher (video): three cheers for all the engineering types out there.
Giant inflatable art: makes me wish we hand subway vents where I live.

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April 12 Clippings

Mounce on The singular-plural "you" problem: personally, I'd go for y'all. It would make biblical interpretation much clearer.
The Secret Life of Plankton (video): a bit of context for that next fish dinner. Nice.
9 World-Tilting Truths: God's view is the proper worldview; every other worldview is inadequate (AKA, wrong).
Why do Americans vote on Tuesdays? Let's just say the reason is now wholly inadequate. I think I'd go for weekend voting. You?
A conversation with a 108-year-old piano-playing Holocaust-surviving optimist: Reminds me of the hopeful, holocaust-informed psychology of Viktor Frankl in Man's Search for Meaning.

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April 11 Clippings

How to peel an apple like a pro: I would so slice off a finger or worse.
Grieving parents find 'stillborn' baby alive in morgue: Thank God--and I do mean Thank God!--the mom wanted to see the baby.
Debate over evolution now allowed in Tenn. schools: "Eight Tennessee members of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences signed a letter urging lawmakers to vote it down, saying it would hurt students, the state's reputation and its efforts to recruit science companies. The National Center for Science Education said it would allow teachers to introduce any idea they want into the science curriculum, religious or not."

My question: How will debate "harm" students?

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April 10 Clippings

Random.

13-year-old drives school bus to safety after driver passes out: Read more. Quick thinking and acting. Kudos!
Should In-N-Out go global? I say NO!
Roasted Beef and Goat Cheese Salad: clipping this for future reference. It looks beautiful and sounds darn good.
Blackwing pencils: I don't get the fascination, but then maybe it's similar to the fascination with Moleskine (a fascination in which I participate).

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April 9 Clippings

A few useful videos:

Lethal plants video series by bob45ana: scary, but forewarned is forearmed
Edible plants video series by bob4ana
Every Day Carry on The Daily Prep: call it paranoia or preparedness, I don't care, but I've started carrying an EDC (mine is packed in a TJ's Green Tea Mints box). You never know when you'll need duct tape, band aids, or iodine.

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April 5 Clippings

Humor. Because sometimes you just need to

Baby Hippo's First Swim
Chip Kidd talking about book design on TED: here's why I have paper books and a Kindle
The Glendale Bear Opens a Twitter Account, @theglendalebear: I've added him or her to my "Local" list on Twitter.

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April 4 Clippings

Today, a handful of videocasts:

Talbot Talks: Relevant Preaching with Dr. Don Sunukjian: great tips for oral clarity
How the World Works, Lee Doren: clear thinking, clear speaking conservative
Edutopia: ideas to make you think about teaching and learning
Cato Institute: One of the many videocasts listed in Lee Doren's book, Please Enroll Responsibly
Biola University: chapel, Dr. Corey, courses, talks, and more

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April 3 Clippings

Montaigne on Education (Cohen) : "Learn in context; question authority; be curious about all manner of experience; exercise body as well as mind; learn not by rote but by doing; engage with things rather than with words"
The Commonplace Book: I am certain we have amazing tools to do this today and have similar serendipitous results. The problem does not lay in our tools, but in ourselves.
The Earth Is Crammed with Heaven: Four Guideposts to Reading and Teaching the Song of Songs: The Song of Songs is a 1) song, 2) about human love, 3) in the Bible, 4) written to give wisdom. Indeed.
How to Write a Theological Paper, by John M. Frame: "The thrust should not be a summary of your research (that would be an 'expository' paper) but your own creative response to your research."
Old Torrance Coffee and Tea: I love my 3 shots of espresso with a splash of half and half. Good stuff.

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Poor lonely guitar pick

Who would do such a thing? Leave a perfectly good nylon pick in the street? Of course, maybe someone lost it and is frantic, wondering where it is.

If it's yours, you dropped it at Norwalk Station, near the Norwalk #5 bus bay. It's still there. I left it all alone. Bad me.

How books were made (tangents)

How books were made: As tedious and labor intensive as this seems, just imagine the process without the typesetter, printer, folder, etc.

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