Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things)

[sarcasticsteve]

!!

LMAO!

[Ianki]

haha, here is a hint, the more people play a character and the more questions that are in the database, the better it does.  With that in mind, it'll get every obscure anime figure but does very bad with history.

Notice, most times it'll ask if the person is real, asian, or a fighter in the first 3 questions.

It was able to give me directly EVA 01 in one round, but not David Hume.

the internet has messed up priorities.

(P.s. i'm sure it would give me Hume from lost in one round)

Edit:  It did.

[Versus]

just ordered one of these (specifically, the embroidered one): www.bmfwallets.com[url=http://][/url]

[Surf314]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...74400.html

[sarcasticsteve]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...74400.html

+1

[x]

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ed_ul..._face.html

[cannedpeahes]

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ed_ul..._face.html

Fuck, I love TED talks.

Dave Eggers: Wish Upon a School
Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity?
Wade Davis: The Worldwide Web of Belief.

Also, something I just found...

Boing Boing - Cam Girls

[CaffeinePowered]

[Surf314]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinio....html?_r=1

[cannedpeahes]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinio....html?_r=1

Sexcellent. This is why I've never given two shits about graduate study.

[KarthXLR]

http://uploads.ungrounded.net/492000/492..._fruit.swf

I found this as extremely moving.

[Radio Raheem]

thats the only good thing ive ever seen from newgrounds

[KarthXLR]

thats the only good thing ive ever seen from newgrounds

Wow. You should consider watching something out of the porn section.

[sarcasticsteve]

http://www.fat-pie.com/salad.htm

I like it when the red water comes out...

[CaffeinePowered]

[quote author=Surf314 link=topic=1507.msg79445#msg79445 date=1240963343]
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinio....html?_r=1

Sexcellent. This is why I've never given two shits about graduate study.
[/quote]


This is an op-ed piece I completely disagree with, the answer to the future job market and staying competitive is to have specialized skills, which sometimes require a graduate education.

I'm not going to make a really long winded response, but the author brings up a few good points such as expending job training and opportunities, but I disagree that our university system or graduate education needs an overhaul. There's a reason why we still pull in the most foreign students (absolute and by percentage) than any other country, because we have a good system that works.

Personally I think we should be encouraging more domestic students to have continued education (PhD/Masters).

[cannedpeahes]

[quote author=peaches link=topic=1507.msg79461#msg79461 date=1240968416]
[quote author=Surf314 link=topic=1507.msg79445#msg79445 date=1240963343]
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinio....html?_r=1

Sexcellent. This is why I've never given two shits about graduate study.
[/quote]


This is an op-ed piece I completely disagree with, the answer to the future job market and staying competitive is to have specialized skills, which sometimes require a graduate education.

I'm not going to make a really long winded response, but the author brings up a few good points such as expending job training and opportunities, but I disagree that our university system or graduate education needs an overhaul. There's a reason why we still pull in the most foreign students (absolute and by percentage) than any other country, because we have a good system that works.

Personally I think we should be encouraging more domestic students to have continued education (PhD/Masters).
[/quote]

Yes, but in employment-competitive fields. Too many grad and doctorate students I know are studying completely irrelevant subjects with their borrowed money in hopes of doing exactly what he describes in the article.

One of the unfortunate things about modern post-secondary education is that we've got a problem called "academic inflation", where these days, you need a diploma or GED to do a drop-out's job, or undergraduate study to do a high school grad's work, and so on, and it's making the very bottom ranks of education completely useless and impoverished, all for the sake of being able to say "Yes, we only employ high school grads here at McDonald's." Fuck. That. Shit.

[Surf314]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpi...meras.html

[rumsfald]

Many grad and doctorate students I know are studying completely irrelevant subjects like the History of Mesopotamian Basket Weaving or Comparative Hip-Hop from the Wealthy British Youth Perspective with their borrowed money, all of which will be completely uncompetitive in the current economic environment. As Darwin said, survival of the wisest, not the most effected intellectuals.

One of the unfortunate things about modern society is that we've got a problem called "technological inflation", where these days, you need a diploma or GED to operate a computer, a cash register which these days is a specialized computer, or ring up a credit card, making the very bottom ranks of literacy in English and computers completely useless. 

Fixed.

It's an information-based society, where knowledge of information is required (read as, reading literacy and computer literacy, both pretty mutually dependent these days). Don't believe it? Try watching most people over 40 try to fully operate a Tivo or an Ipod.

It's arguably more of a fault of primary education (and/or the first years of post-secondary education) who have failed to prepare individuals for entry-level employment (read as, McDonald's), than a problem with post-secondary education. In capitalism, the employers will demand the level of training required by their employees, and the post-secondary market is stepping up where the primary and secondary educational levels fail to adequately train people.

[sarcasticsteve]

3D Computer Interface

[cannedpeahes]

[quote author=peaches link=topic=1507.msg79545#msg79545 date=1241033736]
Many grad and doctorate students I know are studying completely irrelevant subjects like the History of Mesopotamian Basket Weaving or Comparative Hip-Hop from the Wealthy British Youth Perspective with their borrowed money, all of which will be completely uncompetitive in the current economic environment. As Darwin said, survival of the wisest, not the most effected intellectuals.

One of the unfortunate things about modern society is that we've got a problem called "technological inflation", where these days, you need a diploma or GED to operate a computer, a cash register which these days is a specialized computer, or ring up a credit card, making the very bottom ranks of literacy in English and computers completely useless.   

Fixed.

It's an information-based society, where knowledge of information is required (read as, reading literacy and computer literacy, both pretty mutually dependent these days). Don't believe it? Try watching most people over 40 try to fully operate a Tivo or an Ipod.

It's arguably more of a fault of primary education (and/or the first years of post-secondary education) who have failed to prepare individuals for entry-level employment (read as, McDonald's), than a problem with post-secondary education. In capitalism, the employers will demand the level of training required by their employees, and the post-secondary market is stepping up where the primary and secondary educational levels fail to adequately train people.
[/quote]

+1, Sir. +1.

Well, yes, but what I'm saying is the way to fix it is by improving primary/secondary education, right, not by demanding that people study at the undergraduate level, paying thousands of dollars, so that they can... what, teach high school? Work in retail?

Eh. I wish I could write it off as the great dumbing-down of America but I see a failure somewhere, early on, to give people the type of enthusiasm for knowledge that they need to be competitive. For that, I'll let TED do the talking for me...

http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_...isdom.html

It's in there somewhere.