"Our books are so beautiful on the outside that their interior ceases to be important."

This statement and it's arrogance are appalling.

Congratulations! Many more happy birthdays to your grandmother!

Did she do anything special? Skydiving? Bungee-Jumping? BASE jumping? Paintballing? Playing a game of stickball? Was there cake?

One day... I'd like to see what the result is when someone sits down with a Centennial, Laptop open with a text editor up... and asks them "Tell me everything." There's so much that has changed between the generation of 100 years ago, and my generation (I'm 17)... Even the little things like how tea was made would fascinate many... ... a few people such as myself who grew up with things like microwaves.

Pazi Schkola

Hrm...

I think Ill Lich may be right.

Rubbing Alcohol will usually take ink off of things. Even "black" sharpie comes off.

We have three options here...

1. Think something like "damn that sucks" and move on with our lives

2. Be capitalists, and boycott Western Digital (my preference)

or

3. Let WD know that this is not acceptable.
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1048

For $91, I'd expect the hoodie to be a self-heating taser-proof personal flotation device with integrated WiFi.

I think the site has been boingboing'ed... anyone have a torrent or mirror?

shred -n 50 -z /dev/sda

wait a few hours, and your disk will be squeaky clean and polished with an all-zero finish!

As a gifted child in the USA, School has never been "fun" but when No Child Left Behind was put into place, I nearly went insane. How could "educators" be dumbing things down and expect to be taken seriously?! Almost everything was taught "because it's on the standardized tests".

This past summer I took classes that included a lot of gifted High School students, and the general consensus was that NCLB should have been named "The Ignore Gifted Kids and Beat the Stupid Ones Into Submission So Everyone Feels Smart Act.

If government really wants to make education better, add competition.

Since December of last year, I've been enrolled in the PA Cyber Charter School and it's exponentially better than my local high school*. Apparently, there are about 45 other students from my district enrolled in Cyber Schools, and the Administrators are starting to notice. Instead of trying to better the school as a whole, the district is now lobbying to have public funding of cyber schools shut off, thus closing them.

If you want a link to sum it all up, here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfRUMmTs0ZA

-JimXugle

* Quite often, Cyber School students refer to their local school as their Local Hell.