Teachers' Lounge

This looks like loads of fun!

For kids of all ages.

Wetpaint

Neat!

Neatorama increased my hits here at the Lounge some ten fold (or is it ten-fold?) when they pimped my Meth Madness story.

I'd never visited Neatorama prior to this. I recommend it as a worthy companion to the wonderful Fark as a way to get to know our world a little bit better.

That is all.

Flatland, the movie

I've read Flatland twice in my life. Both times the concepts therein sparked my imagination, although there was much I didn't quite grasp.

I recently heard there was a film version. After reading a couple of reviews, one at Film Threat and the other at the Scifi movie page, I decided to place my order. Interestingly, the filmmaker lives and works in Huntsville, Alabama, my old stomping ground. He describes his guerrilla marketing techniques in this interview at Film Threat.

Update - Because this is an off-the-wall independent film, reviews are scarce. I just found a third at Revolution Science Fiction.

Don't think of an elephant

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Mr. Insanity is an equal opportunity employer."
-Profit Fatty

This long and thoughtful essay should be required reading for ninnies of every political stripe.
Seeing the Unseen, Part 1

Seeing the Unseen, Part 2

(The author's homepage)

I'll be interested to hear his reaction to Bill Moyer's upcoming PBS program, Buying the War.

Update - The guy's got a book.

I can't even see the future anymore again

"Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening?" Iacocca writes. "Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, 'Stay the course.'"

Disasterpiece Theater

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