Last minute geek

1. Artist Drew Friedman remembers Stan Lee: "a complex man"
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... he learned I liked to draw cartoons. He'd often exclaim "Someday Drew is going to draw for MARVEL!" That was not to be although I did intern at Marvel for a week at age 14 in 1972 as part of a school work-study ...

2. Junk science promoted by bots and trolls results in North Carolina chickenpox outbreak
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

North Carolina is reporting the worst chickenpox outbreak since a vaccine for it was introduced more than 20 years ago. Ground zero for the outbreak is the Asheville Waldorf School, where 36 children have ...

3. Unscii: a new unicode font set for old-school text-art
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Viznut created a set of bitmapped Unicode fonts for use on your bulletin boards. Years ago, I noticed that Unicode had a bunch of pseudographic characters that could be used to enrichen Ansi art. However, ...

4. Quick how-to on making great scrambled eggs
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

As a graduate of the "rubbery mutilated omelet" school of scrambled egg preparation, I am mocked by this chef's obvious yet perfectly successful method. The secret ingredient: staying with the eggs from ...

5. Terror as disappearances follow Chinese student communists' solidarity with striking workers
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... August 11, one of the main organizers, Shen Mengyu, a graduate of Sun Yat-sen University, another elite school in southern China, was detained by a group of unidentified men. Yue disappeared on August ...

6. The Dozop Collapsible Dolly is a dolly on demand
(English/the-gadgeteer)

... space for (or often need) an old school, full-sized dolly. Think of it as a dolly … The Dozop Collapsible Dolly is a dolly on demand Read More Read all  ...

7. Why we never forget how to ride a bike
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... memory: Recollections of experiences such as the day we started school and our first kiss are called episodic memory. This type of recall is our interpretation of an episode or event that occurred. Factual ...

8. Gilded Age watch: America's firefighting is turning into a two-tier system, with private services for the 1%
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... “If we allow schools, libraries, policing, and firefighting to become a two-tiered system (with one tier for the elite and another tier for everyone else),” Carp said, “then that threatens the democratic-republican ...

9. Baraboo High Schoolers give Nazi salute at junior prom
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Baraboo High School's class of 2019 threw Nazi salutes for a staged photo at their junior prom this year. The photographer, named as Peter Gust, apparently removed it from his website and complained of ...

10. Police: kids are being preyed upon by sextortionists while playing Fortnite
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... revealing photos. Police are working with school boards in the area to disseminate information about the sextortion. Being a kid is already difficult enough without having to endure this kind of horse ...

11. An illustrated tour of Unix history
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Unix pioneer Rob Pike was there from the start, physically transporting key elements of the "Toronto distribution" of Unix to Berkeley when he started grad school, and then to Bell Labs, working alongside ...

12. The market failed rural kids: poor rural broadband has created a "homework gap"
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... wireless internet and the FCC started parceling it off to telcos, taking it away from the schools that could use it to connect their kids to the internet. Many of these schools are on publicly operated, ...

13. Bay Area organization offers free birthday parties to homeless kids, cake and all
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

...  Now, I'm not sure the age limit for the eligible children but, according to their site, the museum serves infants, toddlers and preschoolers. Want to learn more? Email the museum's Family Programs Manager ...

14. Should a programming course be mandatory for high school students?
(English/Linuxtoday)

Is programming key to digital literacy, or are there more important skills we need to instilling in tomorrow's leaders? Read all

15. Texas high schoolers compete in varsity barbecue
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Leave it to Texas to have high school varsity teams dedicated to barbecuing. Here's a story about how some students at a high school in northern Texas are learning to compete with meat. WFAA reports: Horticulture ...

16. Instagram might be exploring collaborative School Stories
(English/engadget)

... might be considering collaborative School St... Read all  ...

17. The Ghastlygun Tinies: MAD's Edward Gorey satire that takes aim at school shootings
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... the stairs" -- and that same menace hangs over Ghastlygun, but given that "gun" in the title, and as school shootings bifurcate America into the solemnly furious who want action, and grifters enabled by ...

18. "Sixteen Tons": the student debt edition
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... to your degree and deeper in debt St. Peter don’t you call me cuz I must stay I owe my soul to Sallie Mae Enrolled one morning, it was drizlin rain “Get a degree” was the school’s refrain Should I study ...

19. Judge schools Fox and Friends on why Trump's birthright citizenship plans are so ignorant
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Judge Andrew Napolitano sat down with his friends at Fox and Friends this morning to let them know why Trump's plan to end birthright US citizenship to babies whose parents are non-citizens or unauthorized ...

20. iHealthLabs PT3 infrared thermometer review
(English/the-gadgeteer)

REVIEW – I have 2 young kids who attend school, and colds and fever are a part of everyday life in my household. When I was a kid, my mom taught me to detect a fever by resting the back of my hand on the ...

21. You can finally play 'Old School Runescape' on your phone
(English/engadget)

After years of being confined to computers, Old School Runescape has finally made it to mobile. More than a full year after developer Jagex promised the port, the throwback version of the wildly popular ...

22. Lisa Kereszi’s creepy photos of low-budget scare attractions
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... former military and Coast Guard base, we have to agree with Boxer’s observation that she has an eye for “plain and awful surfaces.” Kereszi, who is director of undergraduate studies in the Yale School ...

23. Alberto Rimassa
(Italiano/webnews)

Alessandro Rimassa – Co-founder @TAG INNOVATION SCHOOL Quale relazione tra il content e il marketing? The post Alberto Rimassa appeared first on Webnews. Read all  ...

24. Disturbing, uncloseable, emotionally manipulative advertising infests childrens' apps
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... to mind is furious,” said Dr. Radesky, an assistant professor of developmental behavioral pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical School. “I’m a researcher. I want to stay objective. We started ...

25. Apple investigating reports of student workers in factories (again)
(English/engadget)

Apple is investigating reports that one of its parts suppliers is illegally using high school students on its assembly line. Hong Kong-based human rights group Sacom alleges that Taiwanese manufacturer ...