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Daily Archives: January 10, 2012
Stopped They Must Be; On This All Depends | SOPA PIPA 2
Just blogged today on Reddit’s blog:
The freedom, innovation, and economic opportunity that the Internet enables is in jeopardy. Congress is considering legislation that will dramatically change your Internet experience and put an end to reddit and many other sites you use everyday. Internet experts, organizations, companies, entrepreneurs, legal experts, journalists, and individuals have repeatedly expressed how dangerous this bill is. If we do nothing, Congress will likely pass the Protect IP Act (in the Senate) or the Stop Online Piracy Act (in the House), and then the President will probably sign it into law. There are powerful forces trying to censor the Internet, and a few months ago many people thought this legislation would surely pass. However, there’s a new hope that we can defeat this dangerous legislation. More…
Elementary School in Georgia Use Slavery in Math Word Problems 7
Apparently a couple word math problems written in a lesson at the Beaver Ridge Elementary School in Norcross GA included the following two questions:
“Each tree had 56 oranges. If 8 slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?”
“If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in 1 week?” More…
Kayak Fisherman Rescues Dog Swimming Off the Coast in the Gulf of Mexico | Video 10
Just so happens that a man fishing solo off of the Siesta Key Coast in the Gulf of Mexico was running a camcorder of his fishing. I am assuming it was to hopefully film a nice catch, and since he was fishing alone, he had to mount the camera and keep it running. Well, what he did not expect to catch was a dog… swimming alone and completely terrified.
Here is the story according to Huffington Post as well as the video taken by the fisherman: More…
