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Milwaukee to Madison 06/18/08

 

This morning’s commute was much better than DOT’s suggested Milwaukee > Beloit > Madison. That route tacks an extra 105 miles one way. I cannot believe they are suggesting this route all the way down to Beloit!  This route was much better:

mil2mad

Here is the link to the Google Maps page. Lets hope flooding decreases over the next couple of days. Take this route and you will see flooded roads and houses under water in low areas with plenty of farm land underwater too.Tags: Milwaukee, Madison, I-94, commute, flooding

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BMW Design Education Technology

BMW’s Gina

This is BMW’s latest concept car made of high tech fabric, called GINA. But I’m not sure how my wife would take my statement “I’m taking Gina for a ride”

BMW Gina

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Education

RFK: What we lost

RFK

Its been 40 years this week that America lost Bobby Kennedy’s voice. Do you remember how he served and campaigned to change America? I was only 2 years old when he was assassinated, but have come to realize he spoke about a better tomorrow for our country and an end to the war in Vietnam.

His voice is compelling today. Our country was robbed of his eloquent speeches, dedication to country and desire for peace.

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Sugar Labs is cool

The OLPC program is moving through a rough time right now with the announced departures of initial key members and the new Microsoft announcement to bring XP onto the XO Laptops.

Walter Bender, former President of OLPC has launched Sugar Labs to promote the use of Sugar on more devices. Sugar is open source and I’m running it on my Powerbook via VMware’s Fusion. Sugar Lab’s approach: children should not be forced to learning a legacy operating system designed for adult computer programmers.

Lets face facts. XP is not designed for the world’s children living in poverty. The design is simple and perfect for children:

Sugar on OS X

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Education Globalization Network Technology

Amazon.com offline

So Jeff Bezos….what does this cost per minute?
amazon

Tags: Amazon.com, Business, Offline