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This from Stephen Downes is, for me, a reminder to consider whether any of my stuff might be useful One Laptop Per Child and/or the Commonwealth of Learning.

Light and Dark
These words (used in the previous post) need exploring. We are not nocturnally well adapted so naturally fear the dark. This leads to much weight being attached to the words and makes their metaphorical use a powerful tool in discourse. But that use reinforces an association that is false and wrong in other [...]

Ian Buruma, in an article for Project Syndicate, discusses (with implied approval) the decline of “multiculturalism” as a dominant ethic in Europe (especially the Netherlands) as increasing secularism has blurred traditional religious distinctions, and some consequent challenges arising from the relationship between secular Europe and its Muslim immigrants. He argues, as I have, that “Liberal [...]

BBC NEWS reports British chemists as pointing out the difference between an admission test for Chinese science undergrads and a UK university’s diagnostic test for incoming students. But perhaps they are comparing Chinese apples with British oranges (or vice versa?)
After all, in the Chinese question (assuming that by “square prism” they mean “right [...]

David Barash reviews some theories of religion in an article in The Chronicle: 4/20/2007

In squareCircleZ » Trig graphs - how do you feel today?, Murray Bourne at squareCircleZ has a nice Flash gizmo to show biorhythm graphs and links to a site debunking their validity. Actually I think a nice lesson based on this would be to use a similar gizmo to support a demonstration of how sensitive [...]

Someone else has also been working on layout. I’ll have to compare notes.

This CSS Scale Image Html Tutorial may help save the theme from breaking up when the browser’s text presentation is resized.

This is a hack by ‘RandomRandy’ of the wp-includes/query.php file which does the job for WP2.1