A quote from Lincoln school board member Earl Hunton, in today's NWA Times:

"This is a good situation for parents who want to home school thier children and also want a quality education for them."

Ouch.

This is in regards to a charter high school within Lincoln High School where 100 of the 130 students are home schooled.

The school gets about $6,000 per student from the state. New rules say that to get the funds, a student has to be physically in the school 20 hours per week to be counted. Meaning that if the home schoolers stay home schooled, there goes $600,000.

No wonder he's putting them (me) down.

1. MegaUpload is accused of piracy - a lot.
2. Artists band together to support the site via song.
3. Said song is uploaded to YouTube.
4. The song/video is subsequently yanked off due to a TOS violation.

It's the cirle of life.

July 2nd, 2012 will mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of the first Walmart store. As part of the celebration, we've launched a new site: walmart50.com.

Walmart as a company has a rich heritage and culture. We've attempted to capture as much of that as possible by integrating associate stories, articles regarding milestones in our history, videos, and several interactive features. You can even submit your own story of how Walmart has made a difference in your life.

I'm proud to be a part of it all, and hope you will join us as we celebrate our 50th.

Seems like anything with a dual core processor is going to get Andriod 4.0. Everything else, not so much.

From The Verge:

Early 2012 will see the EVO 3D, EVO Design 4G, Amaze 4G, Rezound, Vivid, and the full set of Sensation smartphones —Sensation, Sensation XE, and Sensation XL — making the move up from Android Gingerbread to the all-new ICS.

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From the NY Times:

Martin Lindstrom, a consumer advocate and branding consultant, described experiments he conducted in which magnetic resonance imaging found a flurry of brain activity, “which is associated with feelings of love and compassion,” when subjects heard their iPhones ring.

Siri is likely to deepen that bond, Mr. Lindstrom said in an interview. Experiments show that each sensory experience added to any interaction deepens the potential for emotional bonding. “We as human beings are incredibly good at trying to find human dimensions in anything in order to create a bond with it,” he said. People, he said, “try to find human relationships in every pattern that we see.”

The more I read about the iPhone 4S, the more I want one. Now that it's available from Sprint, it's going to be a no-brainer when my contract is up next year.

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