Monthly Archives October 2005

Nasty epithet

Drinking tea, getting ready for church, I turned on the TV looking for “the farm report” — Religion & Ethics Newsweekly (which Peregrinato also likes) and I couldn’t find it.
Did, however, find an hour-long condensed version of a conference on the growth of the religious right in America on Maryland Public Television.
Info: Examining The [...]

The wind-up laptop

Let’s hear it for the MIT Media Lab and its $100 Laptop project. The idea is to get inexpensive but modern laptop computers into the hands of school children in the developing world. Several nations have signed on to the project to distribute them to literally millions of school-children.
The BBC World News reported about it [...]