What If Google Was Wrong?
Google chinese name：guge（Googleä¸æ–‡å：谷æŒï¼‰ by lannyone
I notice there is a doco called Google – Behind the Screen on Cutting Edge next week.
I think Google is midly interesting in terms of how it came about and how such a simple search engine became basically the default. What is more interesting is what Google doesn’t do, either [...]
Book and The Film
The Graduates by Tammy Kirks
I enjoy watching a movie as much as the next person, perhaps more sometimes, but I also think that watching the film is rarely a substitute for reading the book. I can think of examples of instances where the film might be a better story than the book, The Hunt for [...]
New Home
Old House 1.19.2005 by 10thAvenue
Since my old student facing blog seems to have died I thought I’d start again here. With any luck I’ll be able to bring those old entries over at some point but for now here I am.
Baldrick And History
Baldrick just looking at stuff by scarce
I noticed quite an interesting show on the ABC tonight called Time Team which is presented by Tony Robinson (best known for playing Baldrick on the fabulous BBC show Blackadder.
In this episode the were digging up bit of Bath in Britain looking for remains for Roman buildings, roads and [...]
Power And The Glory
Tate Turbine by ljcybergal
I happened to see a segment on Behind the News about power generation in the context of the current national debate about the future Australian use of nuclear power. What I didn’t realise is that almost all power is made my spinning around magnets. We use water, wind, coal and steam and [...]
Three Act Play
The Stage – view from balcony by Mac Thespian
A conventional story has three major parts to it and a common structure of plays it to have three acts. Broadly speaking we meet the characters in the first act, they encounter a problem in the second act and solve it in the third act.
In practice most [...]
Classic Characters
carl jung by CuddleCat
I was thinking the other day about personality test and one of the things that people say is thay they are mostly based on Jungian Archetypes. Carl Jung was the inventor of anaytic psychology and came up with a whole lot of really interesting things. The two I am most interested in [...]
Copyright and Wrongs
Captain Copyright by adolfoestalella
One of the topics I am just generally interested in is music distribution and consumption. Although I understand the technology it still interests me how it all works since it is so very different to when I was a teenager. Basic then you bought record or tapes and routinely made tapes for [...]
Learning From History
test paper by installclass
I guess if I’d thought about this I’d have guessed it existed. It seems you can download copies of the General Achievement Test (GAT) for the last couple of years.
The use of these for Year 12 students is obvious but I think you’d be crazy not to have a go at them [...]
Testing Times
exams off ! by place light
I know a few of you are doing your exams around now so I wanted to wish you the best of luck.
If I can offer one piece of advice it is to look at how many marks each section is worth and divide your time up in proportion to [...]