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This blog keeps track of various creative projects I'm working on and news about those projects. During the day I work as the public geek at Takoma Park Maryland Library, helping people use the Internet on the 28 Linux stations at the library and adjoining community center. Most of these blog postings are education oriented, as I work as an outside-of-school educator. I'd like to thank Google for the 20 percent time I've given to myself for creative projects.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Scratch Day 2009 - Computer Programming for Kids

Scratch Day 2009 is shaping up to be a lot of fun.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

The Wright Brothers - video and reading comprehension quiz

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Take Me Out to Ubuntu song

Here's a little song I composed about Ubuntu Linux.

Monday, July 28, 2008

YouTube reaches a billion video views per day

This looks like it might be a milestone. YouTube is receiving about a billion video views per day.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Kant's Law

You Kant build what you Kant imagine .

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Moises Blanco teaching at the Takoma Park Computer Center

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Book talk - Richard A. Stack on his book Dead Wrong

This spellbinding book talk was given by Richard A. Stack at The Culture Shop, on Cedar St. NW, Washington DC on 9/29/2007.

Here is a QuickTime file of the first 30 minutes of the talk.

Here is a QuickTime file of the second 30 minutes of the talk.

This file should play well on any computer from 1998 onwards.

Here's what I took away from the talk. The word "gallows" has the same word derivation as the word "gala," which also means festival. It's probably a good idea to stop having a festival of killing criminals.

Heartfelt thanks are owed to Valentine, the proprietor of The Culture Shop for hosting this event.