Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know’.
As for accountability of teachers and administrators, Sahlberg shrugs. “There’s no word for accountability in Finnish,” he later told an audience at the Teachers College of Columbia University. “Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted.
We hope to change how people relate to their governments and social institutions.
We believe building tools to help people share can bring a more honest and transparent dialogue around government that could lead to more direct empowerment of people, more accountability for officials and better solutions to some of the biggest problems of our time.
By giving people the power to share, we are starting to see people make their voices heard on a different scale from what has historically been possible. These voices will increase in number and volume. They cannot be ignored. Over time, we expect governments will become more responsive to issues and concerns raised directly by all their people rather than through intermediaries controlled by a select few.
Through this process, we believe that leaders will emerge across all countries who are pro-internet and fight for the rights of their people, including the right to share what they want and the right to access all information that people want to share with them.
Finally, as more of the economy moves towards higher-quality products that are personalized, we also expect to see the emergence of new services that are social by design to address the large worldwide problems we face in job creation, education and health care. We look forward to doing what we can to help this progress.
Facebook’s S-1 Filing
Facebook officially asserts itself as a non-state actor.
Plano del Puerto de S. Diego : en la costa setentl. de Californs, 1802
Map dated 1782
Published in the atlas volume accompanying Relación del viage hecho por las goletas Sutil y Mexicana en el año 1792 para reconocer el estrecho de Fuca, plate no. 5
From The New Yorker’s new profile on Javier Plascencia, The Missionary:
Plascencia said he’d arrived at 4 A.M., with twenty-one hundred shucked Kumiai oysters from Laguna Manuela in the back of his car. At the festival, he grilled them, and sprinkled them with short-rib chicharrones, lemongrass foam, and ponzu sauce: oyster asada. The food writer Jonathan Gold came back for seconds. “That made my day,” Plascencia said.
Plasciencia is doing a pop up at El Take It Easy on March 5.
Went to Carnitas’ Snack Shack with Chris on Thursday for our first San Diego Burger Mob outing.
My review
Carnitas’ Snack Shack is a great place with a great concept. You order at window and walk around back to eat at a bar or tables under a big open roof. I join SD Urban in asking, “why don’t more establishments take advantage of San Diego’s climate” like Carnitas’ has? It’s almost shocking how nice it is to eat there, outside, tucked back from the street. Plus look at that graffiti.
Andy just pointed out to me something that I didn’t notice while I was there: there’s no way to tip. No jar. Nothing to add when you sign your receipt. He thinks it’s intentional, and I agree. It makes for a very easy, very pleasant experience. The food isn’t cheap, but it’s high value. The service is just right: a kid brings you your food. It’s as if they’ve stripped away as many things as possible that might distract you from the food – even any unnecessary walls.
The only time I noticed the service was when I asked the kid for mayonaise and didn’t get any. This fact was offset by their table of condiments which featured the giant bottle of sriracha pictured above.
The burger is really good. I decided to get it as they make it, which includes “bacon jam.” I think bacon jam is just a bunch of minced bacon. It was overwhelming and prevented me from appreciating the cheese or the spread. Otherwise, the beef, lettuce, tomato, and bun were all top notch. I ordered my burger medium, but they gave it to me pretty rare. I didn’t mind.
The fries are good too, nicely tossed with some kind of fry seasoning that I’ve had before but can’t pinpoint – slightly cuminy and maybe some celery seed in there too. Share an order because they give you a lot for one person.
I felt gross for the rest of the day. The burger and fries were really heavy and I ate too much. I’ll skip the bacon next time I order the burger, but I’ll definitely be back – it’s a nice place to be, and there’s a lot of other stuff on the menu I want to try.
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The blog of Donald Pettit, currently aboard the ISS:
You notice patterns: clouds over cold oceans look different than clouds over warm oceans. Sometimes the continents are all cloud-covered, so you have no recognizable landmass to help you gauge where you are. If you see a crisscross of jet contrails glistening in the sun above the clouds, you know you are over the United States.
Lightning storms flash like gigantic fireflies looking for mates half a continent away. You see patterns on the ocean surface, swirls and vortices on large scales, wave diffraction patterns around capes, solitary waves forming long lines out in the middle of nowhere, and rivers that look like they are spilling milk chocolate into turquoise oceans.
The last thing we need to do is encourage our customers to stare at their phones.
Mark Cuban on apps that augment sports events. Same can be easily said about concerts. Sorry, startups. (via Ian)
Piracy’s preserving effect, while little known, is actually nothing new. Through the centuries, the tablets, scrolls, and books that people copied most often and distributed most widely survived to the present. Libraries everywhere would be devoid of Homer, Beowulf, and even The Bible without unauthorized duplication.
Provocative read on why history needs software piracy. Reminiscent of the story of how the widely pirated first edition of Arabian Nights made it one of the most influential pieces of storytelling in history. (via curiositycounts)
(via curiositycounts)
