Heating a Water Balloon.
Original at krampf.com. (Via kottke.org.)
Class Divisions, FaceBook, and MySpace. A PhD student writes that “class” divisions are manifesting themselves in the social networking sites FaceBook and MySpace:
The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other “good” kids are now going to Facebook. These kids tend to come from families who emphasize education and going to college…. They are primarily white, but not exclusively. They are in honors classes, looking forward to the prom, and live in a world dictated by after school activities.
MySpace is still home for Latino/Hispanic teens, immigrant teens, “burnouts,” “alternative kids,” … who didn’t play into the dominant high school popularity paradigm. These are kids whose parents didn’t go to college, who are expected to get a job when they finish high school.
(Via Slashdot.)
Cyberbullying on FaceBook and MySpace. BBC:
One 16-year-old girl said: “There’s this boy in my anatomy class who everybody hates and some girl started up this I Hate [Name] MySpace thing. So everybody in school goes on it to say bad things about this boy.”
(Via 10×10.)
Faster Than Amazon. A machine is available that will let a library or book store print and bind a book for you on demand. (Via Jeff Duntemann.)
Branding Your Baby. Some parents are hiring consultants to help name their children. One concern: that “their choices aren’t too trendy.” (Via Truemors.)
Updating Library Culture. Librarians are being advised to make libraries less like churches and more like, well, whatever “digital natives” would be comfortable with.
“The librarian as information priest is as dead as Elvis,” [George M. Needham, vice president for member services of the Online Computer Library Center] said. The whole “gestalt” of the academic library has been set up like a church, he said, with various parts of a reading room acting like “the stations of the cross,” all leading up to the “altar of the reference desk,” where “you make supplication and if you are found worthy, you will be helped.”
(Via Slashdot.)
TV on the Net. Many traditional TV shows are now being delivered through the Internet. “NBC.com has streamed about 333 million video streams since it launched its full episode video player,” according to Mashable.com (via Terry Storch).
Community Online Bible Coming. LifeChurch.tv is getting ready to launch an online Bible called YouVersion which has community features built in. You’ll be able to tag and star Bible content, share your insights about passages, and attach videos and other material associated with Bible passages. (Via Swerve.)
get your weight up. UrbanDictionary.com:
To say that someone needs more experience in something. To tell someone they need to practice.
“you want to battle me? you need to get your weight up — you cant beat me.”
