What’s this? The internet wont be connected for another three weeks? That will never do!
Sam, Jez, and I setup a little wireless network between our two houses (45 meters, not line of sight, across a road in a dense neighborhood). We’re getting about 3-8mbit from it, varying with local traffic, humidity, etc, and 0-8% packet loss (though the packets usually get there in the end, just with huge latency sometimes)
It’s pretty neat! Let our powers combine! Next up? We need to get some more houses in on this. :D
One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said: “Allie, I’m not playing. It’s time for art. The rule is no hoods or hats in school.”
She looked up with tears in her eyes and I realized there was something wrong. Her classmates went into the art room and we moved to the art storage area so her classmates wouldn’t hear our conversation. I softened my tone and asked her if she’d like to tell me what was wrong.
“My ponytail,” she cried.
“Can I see?” I asked.
She nodded and pulled down her hood. Allie’s braids had come undone overnight and there hadn’t been time to redo them in the morning, so they had to be put back in a ponytail. It was high up on the back of her head like those of many girls in our class, but I could see that to Allie it just felt wrong. With Allie’s permission, I took the elastic out and re-braided her hair so it could hang down.
“How’s that?” I asked.
She smiled. “Good,” she said and skipped off to join her friends in art.
‘Why Do You Look Like a Boy?’
Good read. I’m a bit jealous of these kids, having such a good teacher.
Idea Factory:- item #331
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On Swipe and the likes.
I held on to this email for a while, unsure if I should share, or if email implies a private communication, but I think it’s okay now. It would be interesting to see those tests.
A few months ago I made this little thing at Icy Labs in Bondi. It’s just a bunch of LEDs soldered in to the gaps between eight header pins, plugged in to an arduino, running these instructions.
Gradient Tutorial- Right Click + New tab to see it bigger
Source- http://nanya.deviantart.com/
Via :'D!
INK is brand new, beautiful, and the first 100% student-run comics publication coming from SVA’s Cartooning Department. It’s free in both the App Store and as a PDF online.
They contacted us a while ago for our blessing in using The League’s fonts in their issue – to which we responded with, “Of course,” and it just launched, so they emailed us a super nice message letting us know.
I’m not all the way through yet, because there’s a lot of interesting material, but you should go grab a copy & peruse.
