Power over one's baser motivations? (more)

Mike Caulfield: “Users” (more)

series of books by Richard K Morgan http://www.richardkmorgan.com/ (more)

Test Driven Development (TDD) With Python book by Harry Percival (more)

Session Initiation Protocol (more)

http://www.purl.org/NET/ENT/1.0/ (more)

aka Acceptance Test? (more)

*Selenium is a portable software testing framework for web applications. Selenium provides a record/playback tool for authoring tests without learning a test scripting language (Selenium IDE). It also provides a test domain-specific language (Selenese)[1] to write tests in a number of popular programming languages, including Java, C#, Groovy, Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby. The tests can then be run against most modern web browsers. Selenium deploys on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh platforms. It is open-source software, released under the Apache 2.0 license, and can be downloaded and used without charge. (more)

Attempts to simplify (English/American) spelling to make learning Reading And Writing easier. (more)

Maria Popova examines the history of the To-Do List as recounted in John Tierney and Roy Baumeister's Will Power book. (more)

Roy Baumeister wonders "Is there anything good about men?" (Men And Women). Among other things, digs into the Larry Summers Women-and-science thing. (more)

items that have no/low dependency among them are Loosely Coupled (more)

Carol Dweck contends that we don't serve our kids (Raising Kids, Educating Kids) by telling them how smart they are. For a few decades, it's been noted that a large percentage of all gifted students (those who score in the top 10 percent on aptitude tests) severely underestimate their own abilities. Those afflicted with this lack of perceived competence adopt lower standards for success and expect less of themselves. They underrate the importance of effort, and they overrate how much help they need from a parent... "When we praise children for their intelligence," Dweck wrote in her study summary, "we tell them that this is the name of the game: Look smart, don't risk making mistakes." (Risk Management, Failure). The only difference between the control group and the test group were two lessons, a total of 50 minutes spent teaching not math but a single idea: that the brain is a muscle. Giving it a harder workout makes you smarter. That alone improved their math scores. (Self Improvement) After reviewing those 200 studies, Roy Baumeister concluded that having high Self Esteem didn't improve grades or career achievement. It didn't even reduce alcohol usage. And it especially did not lower violence of any sort... Scholars from Reed College and Stanford reviewed over 150 praise studies. Their Meta Analysis determined that praised students become risk-averse and lack perceived autonomy. The scholars found consistent correlations between a liberal use of praise and students' "shorter task persistence, more eye-checking with the teacher, and inflected speech such that answers have the intonation of questions." Dweck's research on overpraised kids strongly suggests that image maintenance becomes their primary (Extrinsic) concern - they are more competitive and more interested in tearing others down... But it turns out that the ability to repeatedly respond to Failure by exerting more effort - instead of simply giving up - is a trait well studied in psychology. People with this trait, Persistence (or should tha be Resilience?), rebound well and can sustain their motivation through long periods of delayed gratification. (more)

Phil Jones on Thomas Barnett's Pentagons New Map. You followed that, right? You are NOT ALLOWED not to be part of the global economy. If you try to avoid being part of the global economy, the Pentagon will call you a terrorist and try to kill you.

Concept from Smallest Federated Wiki similar to Sister Sites, but defined based on the various sites being used "at that time". (more)

US dept of Housing and Urban Development (more)

Tim Kreider on our Busy Trap. It’s almost always people whose lamented busyness is purely self-imposed: work and obligations they’ve taken on voluntarily, classes and activities they’ve “encouraged” their kids to participate in. They’re busy because of their own ambition or drive or anxiety, because they’re addicted to busyness and dread what they might have to face in its absence. (Mind The Hole, Time Management) (more)

Having run across two "interviews" of teenagers that attempt to draw lessons about the present/future of Social Media/Social Networking, and noting that (more)

for Security (more)

Mike Fishbein notes the challenge in creating a Full Stack Startup in Education. Jobs (Making A Living, Vo-Tech) are the top of the education stack... Information Wants To Be Free... Credentialing is the key component... A full stack education company might not look like a school at all. It could look like an employer, a lender, a school, and/or a recruiter all rolled into one. (more)