June 2011
21 posts
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U.S. Will Need Another 20 Million Workers With... →
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Massive Open Online Class (MOOC)--classes in the... →
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Provisions Library: Arts for Social Change →
Provisions Online is an international resource covering the fields of arts and social change where gate-openers, artists, and students can follow breaking news on SignalFire, utilize the Research Meridians and explore and participate in Arts Projects. If you are in Washington, DC, make an appointment to visit the library or join our work/study program to gain invaluable experiences and skills.
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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
– Albert Einstein
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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who...
– Malcom X (via dirtyphilosophy)
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Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow...
– Lao Tzu
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The West's Coming Internet War →
infoneer-pulse:
On matters of Internet freedom, the Western world can’t even begin to make up its mind, and its two biggest transnational institutions may soon fall into a complex, ideological struggle over people’s rights to digital expression. Last Friday, the United Nations declared an audacious new right to the Internet in a long report, as The Atlantic’s Nicholas Jackson chronicled. In the...
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Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were...
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via bookoasis)
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Protect IP copyright bill faces growing criticism →
infoneer-pulse:
Technologists are warning that the practical effects of a controversial copyright bill backed by Hollywood will “weaken” Internet security and cause other harmful side effects.
As more Internet engineers, networking professionals, and security specialists have evaluated the so-called Protect IP Act that was introduced last month, concern is growing about how it will change the...
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Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words....
– Tom Clancy (via teachingliteracy)
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of...
– Winston Churchill
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that...
– Not sure who said it, just saw it in an email
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The digital dark age is a very real possibility when it comes to our own...
– Open Bookmarks II | booktwo.org (via adactio)
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Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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NYPL Wire–The New York Public Library: Today: Show... →
nypl:
Do you love the New York Public Library? Do you love the free books and internet? The free ESOL classes? The free literacy classes? The free kids’ programming? The amazing community spaces? Well, show us. Go to the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building today at 1:30 and join in a “hug” of the library,…
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tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
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Dialogue With Your Web Visitors Through Smarter... →
Bach Flower Essences via Wiki →
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