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Men in skirts
“It’s hard enough to get kids to concentrate on an algorithm – even without Jimmy sitting there in lipstick and fake eyelashes.” The quote is from a New York Times article slugged Can a Boy Wear a Skirt to School? and it comes in a Jenna McWilliams blog post sleeping alone and starting out early . Way back, during the summer in Toronto, I used to wear a green sarong because it was cool and comfortable.
Continue reading »Teen Arrested for Creating Website to Bully Other Teen
A Missouri ninth-grader has been arrested for creating a website that disparaged another teen, the most recent arrest in a series of crackdowns by Missouri authorities on so-called cyberbullying. School district authorities in Troy, Missouri, where the female student attends the Troy Buchanan Ninth Grade Center (pictured at right), alerted the sheriff last Thursday after the female target of the site told the principal about it, a sheriff’s spokesman told Threat Level. “The website had very troublesome things posted on it by an individual who obviously had a dislike for the other female in the school,” said Lt.
Continue reading »Chester Ludlow’s online MBA
It’s long been suspected, but now it can be confirmed: Some educational degrees are for the dogs Just ask Chester Ludlow (right). A pug from Vermont in the US, he was ‘awarded’ an online MBA “for life and career experience” —- for a flat fee of $499. His MBA came from Rochville University, an online college, says says GetEducated CEO Vicky Phillips.
Continue reading »Copyright Consultation – only 6 days left
|| Politics:- Seven weeks ago, the Canadian government launched the first national copyright consultation since 2001. The consultation, which has featured town hall meetings, by-invitation-only roundtables, an online discussion forum, and an open submission process, has attracted considerable interest with over 4,000 submissions to date . While the overwhelming majority of those submissions have called for balanced reforms that would strengthen fair dealing, create a liability safe harbour for intermediaries, and link any new anti-circumvention rules to actual copyright infringement, there is reason for concern.
Continue reading »Repo men seize The Pirate Bay buyer’s yacht
Want to buy the launch on the right? If you do, you’ll have to travel to Sweden, where it’ll soon be auctioned —- —- unless its owner, Hans Pandeya, comes up with the wherewithal to settle tax debts he’s said to owe the Swedish authorities. It’s been all quiet on The Pirate Bay front, of late.
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