slantback.
October 2008
September 2008
ClipperDarrell →
clipperdarrell.com
Sound mandatory.
“Police suspect Tanner may have been hiking to or from Clapp Spring, which is described on the Bureau of Land Management’s Web site as a palm oasis and permanent water source for wildlife. Locals say Clapp Spring is little more than a muddy patch that supports a few palm trees but does not have enough water to drink.”
—A picture of Evan Tanner’s camp in today’s Union Tribune: Deep in the scorched hills of Imperial… - Bloody Elbow
“Eight-year-old children have a radically different learning strategy from twelve-year-olds and adults. Eight-year-olds learn primarily from positive feedback (‘Well done!’), whereas negative feedback (‘Got it wrong this time’) scarcely causes any alarm bells to ring. Twelve-year-olds are better able to process negative feedback, and use it to learn from their mistakes. Adults do the same, but more efficiently.”
—Learning From Mistakes Only Works After Age 12, Study Suggests
“Who would have thought, after 30 years, that we’d be a flying 7-Eleven,” Becky Gilbert, a three-decade veteran of the industry told me during a break in our training session in Fort Worth. “You know, I mean we used to serve omelets and crepes for breakfast, and now it’s ‘Would you like to buy stackable chips or a big chocolate chip cookie for $3?’ ”
—Flying the Unfriendly Skies - NYTimes.com
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“Out of 438 incoming freshman students at Amherst College, 432 of them are on Facebook and only 5 have landlines.”
—The class of 2012 is super wired
sidetaker.com →
sidetaker.com
tomwillerer: fairly ridiculous site that allows one to vote on relationship issues and decide which “side” is right and which is wrong.
