Boing Boing has some very cool scitech suggestions in their annual gift guide for non-fiction books.
- If Your Kid Eats This Book, Everything Will Still Be Okay: How to Know if Your Child's Injury or Illness Is Really an Emergency by Lara Zibners
- The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business by Tara Hunt
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer
- Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart
- How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
- The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics by Clifford A. Pickover
- World of Warcraft and Philosophy edited by Luke Cuddy and John Nordlinger
- Getting Started with Arduino: The open source electronics prototyping platform by Massimo Banzi
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Everyone and their mother is sending me a link to this flickr set, via
Boing Boing points out that Fox News has at least thrice identified disgraced Congressman Mark Foley — Republican of Florida, former chair of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, cyberstalker of adolescent Congressional pages — as a Democrat.
See it to believe it.
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One of the arguments I generally make about Web 2.0 is that, if you are an organization who happens to screw up, you should apologize and move on. Don't try to cover your tracks or shut your critics up - you'll just invite mockery and even more attention than you did before.