It appears that Apple’s thesaurus widget thinks that “a democracy in Iraq is quite unlikely for now or any time soon.”
I found this on Digg and didn’t believe it until I tried it myself.
While surfing the net, I found a fun and interesting way of explaining the vast world of government and economics. The premise to the joke is that you’re a farmer with two cows. Then:
- capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
- socialism: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to someone else.
- communism:You have two cows. The government takes both of them and gives you a share of the milk.
- anarchism: You have two cows. A roving gang from the Mad Max movies comes along and steals them and rapes you. You are powerless to fight them alone so you and your friends band together and form your own gang to stop them and steal back the two cows. The leader of your gang orders the rape and murder of the other gang whether or not that was originally what you had in mind. Your gang steals more cows than any other gang and sets up a feudal society. The anarchy you had been living in lasted about a week.
This joke can go on forever. Enjoy.
Welcome to the “new and improved” mrmalley.com. I decided to move the entire site to the popular and open source WordPress blog engine. The move was based on:
- the fact that iWeb only allows comments to be made to your blog if you upload to .Mac (a fact that I find proprietary, strange, and un-mac-like). You can now comment anything you read!
- the spam that I now receive due to robots finding my email address on the front page of my site (before I coded out the @). Live and learn, I suppose.
- my impatience. I would rather not FTP my website every time I update it. With wordpress, I can edit pages right on my server.
Now that I’ve completely bored you and you probably won’t ever come back, let me assure you that more fun will come. I will first be working on the CSS of this page - making it look a little prettier (to my taste at leaste). Then, I will start posting on school, life, etc. again.
If I feel ambitious, I might soon port over my iWeb blog posts here. We’ll just have to see how ambitious I feel.
Until my first real post, thanks for visiting!
I have become an activist in my school for online learning. In this role, I have lauded the Internet as an educational tool for a variety of reasons (some of which I actually believe).
I think that the Internet can make school work worth doing. If for no other reason, because others can see the work that students have produced.
For example, what is the point of writing a paper that only your teacher will read? For the elite, the point is a good grade. For others? At this very moment, I am writing about work. I am gathering and developing my thoughts as an educator. Without being asked, I am reflecting on myself. Why?
My students understand the audience potential of the Internet even better than I do. They appreciate the fact that their world can bump into the worlds of other people on the Internet. They know that what they write here can be read.
I believe that education serves its purpose best when pursued for its own sake. I frequently tell students they should produce only to produce; to make mistakes; to then make corrections. This, after all, is learning, is it not? Why not make those mistakes for others to find? Why not grow in the world, instead of merely in the classroom? Why not exist for the sake of existing?
While surfing the net, I found a fun and interesting way of explaining the vast world of government and economics. The premise to the joke is that you’re a farmer with two cows. Then: