A Taste Of Heaven in the Andersonville neighborhood sounds like heaven on earth for a childfree curmudgeo-woman like me. Naturally, the proprietor is now the most hated man on the Chicago North Side. Basically, he has a firmly worded little sign in the shop that states that “children of all ages have to use their indoor voices.” Many former patrons are in an uproar, because the world is their living room, and how dare anyone object to the happy shrieks and “cute” antics of their children. Especially not anyone in a tin-ceilinged coffee shop in what used to be an…
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BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Illiteracy ‘hinders world’s poor’ The regions found to have the lowest levels of literacy are sub-Saharan Africa, south and west Asia and the Arab states, where only 60% of the population are able to read and write. Women remain more at risk of illiteracy, with only 88 women worldwide considered literate for every 100 men. In Bangladesh and Pakistan, these figures are even less, at 62 and 57 respectively for every 100 men. The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) welcomed the publication and its focus on adult literacy, saying illiteracy was a violation…
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Oooweee! One of our favorite TV shows has been Boing Boinged! It’s almost as if BB wasn’t really familiar with the show, which is weird because it’s totally on topic for them and totally aimed at their dream demographic: smart, slightly geeky people who build cool shit and blow stuff up in the name of Science! So anyway, there’s a DVD coming out. There are already a couple of books on the mighty Mythbusters. It appears that the mustache of Jamie Hyneman will probably succeed in taking over the world, one visual media at a time. But until then, it’ll…
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It’s the day after an off-year election, and all the news outlets have filed their stories about how it’s a victory for Democrats and it’s a referendum against Bush (especially in the case of the Virginia governor’s race, where Bush had done a campaign stop hours before). Governator Ahnuld got shut out on his pet ballot initiatives, too. However, I actually think it’s more of a victory for politicians who aren’t Religious Right pod people, because a few Republican moderates were elected, too. If a heavily Democratic city like New York can re-elect a Republican mayor, that says that they…