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See What Facebook Publicly Publishes About You [Social Networks]

 

 

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See What Facebook Publicly Publishes About You [Social Networks]

via Lifehacker by Whitson Gordon on 4/28/10

With Facebook's new Open Graph API causing such a stir, many people are questioning what Facebook is publishing to the public. Developer Ka-Ping Yee has created a simple tool shows you what everyone else can see.

To check your profile for public information, all you need to do is load up the tool and type in your Facebook ID—this is the name right after facebook.com/ on your profile page (if you haven't set a username, it's the string of numbers at the end of the URL). Alternatively, you can search for your name or email address.

The tool will then load all your profile information. All your information outside the "metadata" box is public (for example, in the above picture, that means that everyone can see my "website" links). To see if a particular section within the metadata box (such as activities, favorite movies, etc.) is visible to the public click on its link—if it comes up empty, it's not viewable to the public. Note, though, that if it's not public, it may very well be viewable to friends of your friends, which is still pretty darn public—so check your privacy settings to be sure it's what you want. If clicking on a section comes up with something like the picture below, then everything listed is available for the public—and any web site that uses the Open Graph API—to see.

Facebook does already have a built-in tool within privacy settings to do this, but it's nice to have an external tool to double-check, and with the new Open Graph being a bit confusing for some people, it should help you sleep at night knowing exactly what is and is not public. If you find that your profile is much more public than you thought, make sure you know how to restore your privacy.

What does Facebook publish about you and your friends? [via GigaOM]

 

 

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Teach Your Child to Read

hmm... that looks familiar.

i wonder if andrew would like to try those lessons.

 

 

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Teach Your Child to Read

via Cool Tools on 4/27/10

This book really works! My daughter could read at age three, and has now really discovered the joy of reading at a young age. There are so many skills that kids can learn for themselves once they master reading. This is truly one of the fundamentals that is worth the effort to instill as early as possible.

-- James Hom

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
Sierfried Engelmann, Phyllis Haddox, Elaine Bruner
1986, 395 pages
$15

Available from Amazon

Sample Excerpts:

The following are the four most important points about an effective sequence for teaching reading:

1. The beginning exercises are simple and do not resemble later exercises (just as beginning piano exercises do not look much like advanced ones).

2. The program provides teaching for every single skill that the child is expected to use when performing even the simplest reading exercises.

3. The exercises change form slowly, and the changes are relatively small, so that the exercises are always relatively easy for the child.

4. At every step, the program provides for very clear and unambiguous communications with the child.

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To decode the sentence Ruf unter glop splee, you simply say the words. This illustration points out that you may be able to decode without understanding what the sentence means. Traditional reading programs typically confuse the beginning reader about whether the teacher is trying to teach decoding or understanding. These programs typically begin with the teacher discussing the details of a picture. If the pitcure shows a girl named Jan, the teacher talks about Jan—what she is wearing, the color or her hair....It might seem that this communication is effective because it promotes interest and gives the children the motivation for both reading and understanding the written message. However, this communication may prompt the child to formulate a serious misconception about how to read. If the teacher always talks about the picture before reading the word, and if the word is always predictable by referring to the picture, the child may reasonably assume that:
- You read words by referring to a picture.
- You must understand the word that is to be decoded before you can read it.

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English, clearly, is not a regularly spelled language. It is an amalgam of contributions from Latin, Greek, and French. But there are ways to simplify it for the beginning reader.

Distar solves the problem by introducing an altered orthography. This orthography does two things. It presents variations of some symbols so that we can create a larger number of words that are spelled regularly (each symbol only having a single sound function). At the same time, the orthography permits us to spell words the way they are spelled in traditional orthography. Here is the Distar alphabet:

 

 

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Select Privo By Clarks Womens Shoes: Berry, Ebb, Beluga, Fin, Kiva, Mesa & M...

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History Events in Boston’s North End This Week

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History Events in Boston's North End This Week

On Thursday, 22 April, at 10:00 A.M. a new Freedom Trail map will be unveiled in Boston's North End at the corner of Hanover and Cross Streets. This event appears to be sponsored by the nearby Citizens Bank, and there will be a reception afterward. I'm guessing that this new map is part of the ongoing shift in the neighborhood after the removal of the Central Artery. One might even call it a segue.

In other news from the north, the North End Historical Society has launched its website, and will host its first event on Saturday, 24 April, at 2:00: "A 'Holy Thursday' walk to five religious and historical locations" within the neighborhood.

(Aerial photo of the North End by Juliette Melton, via Flickr through a Creative Commons license.)

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Patriots’ Day Weekend 2010

The links here give a pretty comprehensive list of things we could do.

 

 

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Patriots’ Day Weekend 2010

via Boston 1775 by J. L. Bell on 4/15/10

Patriots' Day weekend is nigh upon us, and there are too many commemorative events to list them all. So here are some handy listings elsewhere:

• The Battle Road events.
• Celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride."
• Lexington Historical Society's schedule.
• The National Heritage Museum's displays—plus, a Jim Henson exhibit.
• The Paul Revere House's school vacation schedule.

Myself, I plan to attend the New England Historical Association conference at Salem State College, the Lincoln Salute if the weather's fair, and the Boston Marathon four blocks from my house.

 

 

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The Saddest Book Ever Written: Microwave Cooking For One

 

 

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The Saddest Book Ever Written: Microwave Cooking For One

via The Consumerist by Meg Marco on 4/8/10

SFWeekly has declared this book, Microwaving Cooking For One, by Marie T. Smith, to be the saddest cookbook ever written.

We have to agree, which is why we're glad Stouffers is putting suicide prevention tips on their packages. (Not really, it's from the The Onion. We wish it was true, however.)

Pic of the Day: Saddest Cookbook Ever [SFWeekly]

 

 

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Netflix Brings Streaming Video To iPad

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Netflix Brings Streaming Video To iPad

via The Consumerist by Chris Morran on 4/2/10

After speculation in recent days that Netflix would be launching an application that would allow people to watch movies on the new Apple iPad, the video delivery service confirmed the news this morning and the app is now available through the iTunes store.

"The innovation and consumer appeal of iPad make it a perfect device for instantly watching TV episodes and movies streamed from Netflix," said Reed Hastings, Netflix co-founder and chief executive officer. "We are excited to make a Netflix App available to iPad users beginning with the iPad launch."

The app is free to download, but users will need to have at least the $8.99/month unlimited Netflix plan to access the Watch It Now feature.

 

 

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