Kenton

Anyone run in these? Since seeing them on Sergey Brin I've done some reading on them and they look like they might be worth a try. Of course, now I'd need to get the cold weather version. - Kenton from Bookmarklet

Nice. Just dug up my MEC lifetime membership card the other day. Time to put it to use again. - Matt Mastracci

"The real issue is that at the end of the day I know I'm always (well, for the next few years at least) going to be too reliant on "heavyweight" desktop applications like audio, video and image editors to really cut the cord and stuff my whole life into the cloud. But the chimes of freedom flashing in Chrome OS are too great to ignore, and I think there's plenty going on here that could be very beneficial to a "real" desktop OS." - Kenton from Bookmarklet

""It is the court's opinion that the negligence of the Corps, in this instance by failing to maintain the MRGO properly, was not policy, but insouciance, myopia and short-sightedness," U.S. District Court Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. wrote in his lengthy ruling, referring to the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet canal." - Kenton from Bookmarklet

"Three school districts and a coalition of charter schools have agreed to be test kitchens for some radical ideas for improving teacher quality — from paying new teachers to spend another year practicing before getting their own class to letting student test scores affect teacher pay." - Kenton from Bookmarklet

"The Internet has emerged as the only medium in which it’s possible to block all mention of Sarah Palin. I’ve unfollowed her on Twitter, rewritten all my RSS feeds to vaccinate myself against Palin-creep, carefully self-edited my Google searches so that they won’t accidently throw up links to a Palin story. As the absolute master of my own media, I absolutely control the message that I hear." - Kenton from Bookmarklet

"We humans are drawn to the shore, with some 40% of the world's population living within 100 kilometers of a coast. Coastal areas have made recent news with the arrival of several storms, concerns about rising sea levels and other environmental and conservation efforts. Collected here are a handful of photographs from around the world of people and animals at the shoreline, playing, working, struggling or relaxing on the border between land and sea." - Kenton from Bookmarklet

"National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen was in Antarctica to capture shots of leopard seals. One approached him, jaws wide and ready for biting...and if you haven't heard the rest of the story yet, you need to watch this brief clip." - Kenton from Bookmarklet

This is a very cool story. Watch the video if you haven't seen it before. - Kenton

Yeah, they had this guy on NPR telling his story...good stuff. - Alex Scoble