She was longing to be part of a different world, and a strange man in a blue box appeared, offering to show her every world…..

As part of their Kindle platform Amazon has a feature called “Public Notes”:

What are Public Notes?

With Public Notes, our Kindle customers can choose to make public their highlights and notes. Once a customer enables Public Notes for one of their books, then any other customer who follows them will be able to see their Public Notes.

Rather than rather sharing their insights about the Hunger Games it appears school kids have found yet another way to goof off:

For more information on this topic I would recommend the Google Tech Talk – Meaningful Play: Getting Gamification Right.

#TechnologyInTheClassroom

20 years ago this was science fiction in a lab. Now it’s a video game.

Too bad they didn’t make a terrible sequel.

Found this story on Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd:

He became popular with the public by destroying mortgage papers at many of the banks he robbed, liberating many debt-ridden citizens.

and wondered if @mostlyalex ever used this song for bedtime:

Yes, as through this world I’ve wandered

I’ve seen lots of funny men

Some will rob you with a six-gun

And some with a fountain pen.

And as through your life you travel

Yes, as through your life you roam

You won’t never see an outlaw

Drive a family from their home.

DUBNER: It is interesting, isn’t it? I mean, Peters and Kahan found that high scientific literacy and numeracy were not correlated with a greater fear of climate change. Instead, the more you knew, the more likely you were to hold an extreme view in one direction or the other — that is, to be either very, very worried about the risks of climate change or to be almost not worried at all. In this case, more knowledge led to … more extremism! Why on earth would that be? Dan Kahan has a theory. He thinks that our individual beliefs on hot-button issues like this have less to do with what we know than with who we know.

http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/11/23/the-truth-is-out-there%E2%80%A6isn%E2%80%99t-it-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/