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Over at Edutopia they’re running a Reader’s survey.  It’s on a wide variety of topics, including best education blog (which one of my inspirations, Vicki Davis, was nominated for), best technology tool, etc.  My personal favorite, though:

What’s wrong with this picture?  IT’S TWO RICH GUYS WHO DONATE MONEY AND ONE ACTUAL LIFE-LONG ADVOCATE AND ROLE MODEL FOR EDUCATORS!  Seriously!  If you haven’t read Savage Inequalities by Kozol, go do it, now.  It will change the way you look at your mission as a teacher.  To add insult to injury:

Now, if I know nerds (and I do), Star Wars nerds will stuff the ballot box for Lucas, and computer nerds will stuff the box for Gates as soon as words gets out.  So, frankly, the results already become meaningless.  Regardless, for all that is good and decent, educators, please vote for Kozol.  Then I recommend never visiting that stupid site ever again.

Thanks to @garystager for the tipoff.

Two hour season-finale tonight! This was a great reminder for me of everything we’ve seen that happens to the Oceanic Six after the island, in what appears to be more or less chronological order.

Monkeys control robots with their minds

Robots could soon rove Antarctica

I always thought the Apocalypse presented an either/or scenario, as in “either Planet of the Apes or Terminator.”  Little did I suspect that it would be both!