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"April 17, 2009 - This is dedicated to all fans of Queen. No effects and no sampling was used. What you see is what you hear (does that even make sense?) Atari 800xl and Floppy Drive 0$ 3.5 Inch Hard Drive 1$ Adaptec 2940UW SCSI Card $5 TI-99/4A and Tape Drive $15 8 Inch Floppy Drive $20 HP ScanJet 3C $25 Eico Oscilloscope $28 1,000,000 Hits on YouTube - Priceless"

Long but very useful.

"India has 100,000 agricultural extension workers whose job is to translate research into useable information for the 60 percent of Indians who earn a livelihood from farming, many of whom cannot read and lack electricity." "Digital Green's approach is kind of the MOOC model turned upside down," "Looking ahead, Digital Green is planning to build a Khan Academy-like site for the videos, showing the step-by-step connections across their (now) 2,600 videos. It is planning a pilot with Vodaphone to use audio snippets to reinforce messages. If a farmer forgets something between viewings, he can receive robocalls, call in with questions, or listen to an audio version of a video."

NYTimes investigation into the use of (computer controlled) linear accelerator machines to treat cancer. Documents several frightening causes of poor training, software errors, user error, and overconfidence. A clear illustration of how we can trust machines too readily.

For many Americans, cellphones have become irreplaceable tools to manage their lives and stay connected to the outside world, their families and networks of friends online. But increasingly, by several measures, that does not mean talking on them very much.

"LÉO APOTHEKER"

"ClassDojo is used by at least one teacher in roughly one out of three schools in the United States, according to its developer. The app is among the innovations to emerge from the estimated $7.9 billion education software market aimed at students from prekindergarten through high school. Although there are similar behavior-tracking programs, they are not as popular as ClassDojo."