Great Violin Story from Dave Belden

[update: new link to Dave Belden’s site] [update from David: “Also, one small correction to your post: it was actually stolen while I was home in Alaska, not Europe (I can only imagine calling all the pawn shops in Switzerland!).” ] I just read a...

Compare your income to the rest of the world

This is a fun website and definitely worth checking out: HOW RICH ARE YOU? Every year we gaze enviously at the lists of the richest people in world. Wondering what it would be like to have that sort of cash. But where would you sit on one of those lists? Here’s...

Google for Educators

This week’s Podcast for Teachers describes a great new service from Google designed specifically for educators. Google for Educators amalgamates all the Google services that are of use to teachers, including Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Blogger, Google Page...

The Power of del.icio.us

The term “social bookmarking” may not be familiar to everybody, but it has emerged as one of the most useful tools of the Web 2.0 movement. The service del.icio.us (now owned by Yahoo!) is the oldest and best example of the power of social bookmarking....