It's not even ten a.m. on the first day of this workweek, and there are already two bizarre teacher sex scandals to report. The first featured a kid, having engaged in a sexual relationship with his teacher since October, caught by the principal... (literally) with his pants down.  N...

  Rush Limbaugh is at it again: he's predicting Ted Kennedy is going to die soon. This cat amuses the bejesus out of our stupid asses. M.I.A. denied naming her baby Ickitt... but hasn't convinced us of this yet because she won't say what she did name the lil' thang.  Questi...

[This is Post 3 for my guest blogging stint at The Des Moines Register.] Archimedes said “Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world.� This week I am blogging about 5 key levers that I think are necessary to move Iowa schools forward and help our graduates survive and thrive in this ne...

A "radioactive" suspected sex offender has gone on the run after failing to attend his trial for child pornography offences....

Director : Richard Linklater Release Date : 3 October 2003 (USA) Genre : Comedy, Music Cast : Jack Black as Dewey Finn, Adam Pascal as Theo, Lucas Papaelias as Neil, Chris Stack as Doug, Sarah Silverman as Patty Di Marco, Mike White as Ned Schneebly, Lucas Babin as Spider, Joan Cusack as Rosalie Mul...

Microsoft is talking innovation. This is so amazing I’m almost dumbfounded (I said almost.) News from VNUNet is that there will be a new browser called Gazelle, ostensibly like no other browser now available. Microsoft researchers are working on a new browser called Gazelle which it promises w...

V!NCENT writes with an excerpt from a new build-up by Microsoft: "As web sites evolved into dynamic web applications composing content from various web sites, browsers have become multi-principal general expenses environments with effects shared among mutually distrusting web site principals. Nevert...

What's worse: Calling a classmate a "liar" or a "lesbian"? Let's find out on this edition of Queerty's Favorite Television Show We Have Yet to Actually See, The Principal's Office.Read the rest of It's Girl Time on The Principal's Office Permalink | ...

[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] India’s quest to create a $10 laptop is getting a lot of press this week. Fast Company notes that the proposed design will have 2 GB of RAM, wired Ethernet, and Wi-Fi and probably will run Linux. The laptop initiative is part of India’s National Missio...

In case you didn’t notice, we inaugurated a President yesterday! Back in October, before we knew who he would be, I invited edubloggers to write a letter to the next President. Here are some excerpts from each participant’s response… [click on names for full posts] Rich Haglund If you want ou...