Texas schools board rewrites US history with lessons promoting God and guns
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/16/texas-schools-rewrites-us-history Disgusting.
Iranian Director Faces Death For LGBT Film
http://jezebel.com/5539059/iranian-director-faces-death-for-lbgt-film Kiana Firouz is at risk of being deported from the UK. (http://librarianchick.com/kiana-deported) to Iran, where homosexuality is considered a heinous crime punishable by hanging. Make your voice heard by writing to the British Home Office (public.enquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk) requesting that Kiana receive refugee status.
Google Books – The Minimalist Cooks Dinner
Nice preview of The Minimalists Cookbook. Thanks, Google!
Banksy Love
Banksy love.
Woman says 3D porno made her pregnant – Husband claims “Anything is possible”
http://www.techeye.net/internet/woman-says-3d-porno-made-her-pregnant Before, only the pious and upright could pull it off by playing the deity card. Now, any ol’ floozy can have access to baby-movie-daddy for the price of a ticket. It’s a miracle!
Turn Any Site into a Mobile Website
http://www.butterscotch.com/show/Turn-Any-Site-Into-A-Mobile-Website Many popular sites on the Internet offer mobile versions so that people can retrieve their content from web enabled cell phones, but some sites don’t. Non-optimized content can be slow to load and hard to read in mobile browsers. Stacy Reed shows how there’s more than one way to mobilize those websites so you can take the entire internet
Tax money used to mislead children for religious reasons
http://www.secular.org/node/255 “Whether we will teach our students the truth about science and history has now become a point of political contention, where religiously-based myths compete with reality and fact.”
The Birth of a God
I found this quite accidentally, but it always amazes me when I see my art mixed with other media. The music was created with recorded energy waves from space, translated into audio, along with deep sea ambient sounds and whale singing. The video is made up of pictures of space, a bit of my artwork, and the inspiring art of
Coming Soon to a Cafe Near You – Bacon Syrup
http://www.joeydevilla.com/2010/05/06/coming-soon-to-a-cafe-near-you/ I love bacon, don’t get me wrong, but… um. No.
Save Money By Switching To Century Gothic
http://consumerist.com/2010/05/save-money-by-switching-to-century-gothic.html Save up to 31% of your toner by switching to Century Gothic for printing purposes.
Five educational resources for Teacher Appreciation Week
http://www.butterscotch.com/show/Five-Educational-Resources-For-Teacher-Appreciation-Week In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week, Stacy Reed shares five helpful and informative resources online that can be used by students of all ages, both in the classroom and out.
Find free mobile apps, videos and tutorials – iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry and more
http://mobile.butterscotch.com/mobile.html Our newest site and the best place to look for mobile apps across all the different platforms.
House hunting online
http://www.butterscotch.com/show/House-Hunting-Online Searching for a new home or apartment? Stacy Reed explains why you can toss those classified ads from your newspaper aside and find those same listings and many many more online – with pictures, directions and important time-saving information that newspapers just don’t have room to print.