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• Learning by heart is 'pointless for Google generation' says guy hoping to coin name for generation
  Schoolchildren should no longer be forced to memorise facts and figures because such information is readily available on the internet, says some Canadian bussinessman that the article calls a major commentator on such issues. Because , you know, when has a website ever been wrong?
• A modest proposal
  Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President is the final product of an eighteen month Saban Center at Brookings-Council on Foreign Relations project. These suggestions border on the tepid, but would, if put in practice, still be the boldest move the US has put into practice since the Geneva initiative.
• Apple removes antivirus support page from website because protecting your computer from viruses is off message
  Apple does a lot of stuff right but when they decide to do something stupid they really pull out all the stops.
• Maybe by "change" Obama meant they were changing the Whitehouse locks or the silverware or something.
  What does it say that, with 130 members of the House and 23 in the Senate who voted against the war, Obama chooses to hire Democrats who made the same judgement as Bush and McCain?
• Athiest sign goes up in state capital for the holidays: Only in Oly
  At this season of the Winter Solstice may reason prevail. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.
• Buffy The Vampire Slayer The Movie?
  And here I was looking for news to confirm the rumor of a Firefly resurrection, and what do I find? Rumors of a Buffy movie. Scoobies reunite!
• Dumbing down school exams risks 'catastrophe', warns Royal Society of Chemistry - Telegraph
  Scientists said a lack of rigour in GCSEs - fuelled by a culture of "teaching to the test" - was destroying teenagers' problem-solving and thinking skills. It came as research suggested standards demanded by schools have dramatically declined in the last 50 years.
• Disillusioned bankers quit the City for the rewards of teaching science
  The economic downturn has an amazingly postive upside after all.
• Every secondary school should have sex clinic on site
  Much better spent money than the "Holocaust expert for every school" plan.
• Pimping Your Wordpress Theme for Humans
  Eight phenominal plugins that should be in just about every Wordpress developer's toolbox. This had some amazing code I hadn't come across before. Spiffy stuff.
• US spying on everybody
  Tony Blair, you, me, the NSA is listening to us all according to whisle blowers.
• London Open Source Jam - Thursday 27th November! - London Open Source Jam | Google Groups
• BNP Near Me?
  Sort of a creepy outing list using google maps. Obviously the creators behind this aren't trying to incite any action or violence against these people. Um, obviously.
• A list taken to far: Let's stop for moment and look at how small the BNP list actually is
  While the BNP is a particularly loathesome organization, we must remember that is is a legal political party in the UK. If you don't like that, blame Labour, not the BNP. You're living in a Labour government which allows the BNP to exist. Saying that people should be sacked from their jobs because of party affiliation is a bit rich and smacks of Red Scare tactics from the era of McCarthyism in the US. Except communism actually was illegal there during that time. These people are racist, homophobic isolationists. Don't give them the status of 'victim.' It's a legal party and must be treated as such.
• The problem with the enterprise world
  i found this quote while reading some browser news: "IE 8 isn't earth-shattering by any means -- and that is actually a good thing. We don't need explosively new ideas in the enterprise world."