- Alltop – Top Homeschooling News
– I’m honored to be in such good company on Alltop’s Homeschooling news
page. Scroll down for a look at some really terrific blogs. There’s a
new Alltop widget, too, which I might try out in my sidebar for a
while. Please let me know if it affects load time for anyone. - Elderly woman arrested for not returning football – Boing Boing – I really don’t know what to say about this.
- Returned Memory Card on Flickr
– Guy finds someone else’s memory card, posts the photos on Flickr.
Eventually the card’s owner hears about it and gets his pictures back.
Woohoo internet! - SouleMama: winter woolens – This kind of post makes me so happy.
Category Archives: Links
Monday Links
- Keyboard "eavesdropping" just got way easier, thanks to electromagnetic emanations – Engadget – Lovely! So comforting!
- Alasandra’s Homeschool Blog Awards: Homeschool Blog Awards ~ Voting for Adult Blog Now Open
– Aw, thank you for the nomination for Bonny Glen!! 🙂 There are some
great blogs in the running, including one of my personal favorites, As
Cozy as Spring. - English honey to run out before Christmas – Telegraph – Yikes.
Friday Links
- stubby
pencil studio :: eco friendly art supplies, recycled pencils,
sustainable pencils, non-toxic crayons, soy crayons, recycled
sketchbooks :: portland, oregon – Could these crayon rocks be cuter??? HT: Soule Mama. - Jennifer’s Favorite Links: Amazing, money-saving battery hack – DUDE!!! Awesome link, Jen!
- Car Battery Hack – Video – An even more useful battery hack.
- Jennifer’s Favorite Links: How crayons are made – I love how all the workers are smiling for the camera. Or maybe just because crayon-making is a happy endeavor.
- Journey North Crane – Human-led whooping crane migration is underway!
Thursday Links
- resurrection fern: Crochet Acorns and Felted Pumpkin Bowls : A Tutorial – Oh Jaaaa-aaaane….(Except I don’t know where we’ll find acorn caps.)
- GROW YOUR OWN TOMATOES INDOORS THIS WINTER – HT: The Common Room
- One Pretty Thing – How cute is that little house ornament? And I am totally digging the tree-branch curtain rod.
- www.kansascity.com | 10/13/2008 | Lawsuit filed over Little House museum in Kansas
– "A California production firm has filed a lawsuit against a museum on
the southeast Kansas homestead where writer Laura Ingalls Wilder once
lived, saying it owns the rights to the name "Little House on the
Prairie." Oh for Pete’s sake.
Tuesday Links
- Alasandra’s Homeschool Blog Awards: Don’t miss your chance to nominate your favourite blog ~ The Nominees – Deadline for nominations is Oct. 17th.
- CapeCodTimes.com – Shuttle driver reflects on Nobel snub
– "Prasher, 57, works as a courtesy shuttle operator at a Huntsville,
Ala., Toyota dealership. While his former colleagues will fly to
Stockholm in December to accept the Nobel Prize and a $1.4 million
check, the former Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientist will
be earning $10 an hour while trying to put two of his children through
college." - TSA
screener ripped off hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of
electronics from passengers, TSA itself didn’t notice – Boing Boing – Yikes. Watch your luggage. - The Teaching Company Free Lectures – Free downloads of lectures on Lincoln and Churchill.
Monday Links
- SouleMama: For 2009
– Oh oh oh!!! Have you bought your 2009 wall calendar yet? I usually
pick out an artist’s calendar for the year, but I might just have to go
with Amanda Soule’s A Year of Craft instead. That red bird against aqua
wall photo is the one that made me fall in love with her blog. ETA: Oh,
shoot. It’s 28.95. Hard to justify spending more than 12 bucks on a
calendar, especially this year. I’ll just have to keep up my ceaseless
clicking around her blog. - FreeRice: Subjects
– Many thanks to Karen Edmisten for pointing out that FreeRice has
added all kinds of new subjects to its "play this and we’ll donate rice
to the World Food Program" game. I am loving the famous paintings quiz! - Wonderful noodle stretching and folding video – Boing Boing – Fold the dough 12 times to get 4,096 noodles. Awesome. Jane, this one’s for you.
Sunday Links
- colorfool creates: The Greatest Bag Tutorial EVER?
– Instrux for sewing a simple tote bag. I’m looking for this same kind
of tutorial but with pockets. Anyone got recommendations? HT: Cloudscome. - Sew,Mama,Sew! Blog » » Summer Sewing ~ Classic Tote Tutorial – Here’s one with an outside pocket. Also good visuals for getting the flat bottom right. HT: @mylittlesoapbox
who responded to my tweet. Am still wanting to see how to do some big
inside pockets, or even (gasp, I know I’m not ready) sectioned pockets. - Great Kids’ Books About Financial Ruin – Take your mind off the shrinking of your 401k by reading some children’s books about tough times. Laura’s there, of course.
Saturday Links
- How to Make a Table Runner | eHow.com
– Tagging this so I can find it. I have enough fabric leftover from my
curtains that I might try a table runner. Or should I do a tote bag
instead? Decisions. - Recipes for Health – Kids’ Edition – Creamy Pasta – NYTimes.com – HT: Alice. Looks yummy.
- Has the Newbery Lost Its Way? – 10/1/2008 – School Library Journal
– "School librarians say they simply don’t have enough money to spend
on books that kids won’t find interesting—and in their opinion, that
category includes most of this century’s Newbery winners." - Antique Pattern Library – Public domain needlework patterns! Oh my!
Saturday Links
- Tabatha A. Yeatts — Art Thursday — I always enjoy Tabatha’s Art Thursday posts. Great paintings, cool links.
- Barcelona – Olympic Barcelona
— Hey wouldja look at that! One of my photos has been chosen for
inclusion in the Schmap guide to Barcelona. My father will be so proud.
😉
Saturday Links
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Excellent piece on the importance of play, with great quotes at the end.
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The unschooling blog carnival is hosted this month by Silvia of Po Moyemu. Good stuff there!
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A new Signing Time DVD! A NEW SIGNING TIME DVD!!!!!
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Wow. I want to take a class with this guy. Or better yet, just have him come over and walk through town with us. Dr. Stilgoe, you have a standing invitation, hear?
"Harvard, he says, has some of the finest students in the world, but he believes most of them are visual illiterates. Their academic lives have been programmed around verbal and mathematical tests that will get them into a good college, but he says they lack a sense of spontaneity.
“I think they’ve missed a kind of self-guided, non-organized activity, non-sports activity growing up. Wandering around, getting into things. And the assumption seems to be nowadays is if a child isn’t in an organized activity, the child is a criminal,” says Stilgoe. “But as far as I can understand, most of my colleagues I work with seem to have found their careers by being slightly disorganized. Lucking into something, you know.”
(tags: unschooling seeing learning)