Several Lessons To Be Learned From the Finnish School System

I first became aware of the best-in-the-world ranking of Finnish schools in the excellent book, “Under Pressure: Rescuing Childhood from the Culture of Hyper Parenting” by Carl Honore. 

What's Your News IQ?

I got 19/20 on this short quiz with a couple lucky guesses but missing one tricky question about the stock market (you'll know it when you see it.) 

Friday Fun Link – Make Your Own Fonts (July 18, 2008)

There are a number of resources online for lovers of fonts and typography.FontStruct is a site that allows you to design a font directly on their web site

Jason's Birthday Movies

Somewhere along the line, Shea and I began a tradition of me going to a movie on my birthday.  With one notable exception on the following list, I've

In Praise of The Four Day Work Week

Tomorrow is my YouDay.  Since the government hasn't officially declared it a statutory holiday as per my recommendation, I am taking it off using one of my earned

The Ultimate Guide to Copyright Terms and The Public Domain

(Er, except this list is for the United States)   Still interesting though.(via MetaFilter)

Songs For A Sleepless Baby

Here's a list of the songs Pace is most likely to hear when fighting against going to sleep (which is pretty much every night these days).  I know

Some Good Job Hunt Resources

My job hunt has begun again in earnest – I've applied for a couple positions and heard of a couple more that I intend to apply for soon

A New Dewey? LibraryThing Proposes The Open Shelves Classification System

An open source, collaborative Dewey replacement?  That sounds pretty cool…The Dewey Decimal System® was great for its time, but it's outlived that. Libraries today should not be constrained

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