Sundance Apples + Raclette
I would be alone if not for you
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January 23rd 2012
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ooh la la!!
much to like.
(Source: designtraveller)
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good:
A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris’ Poorest
The Crédit Municipal de Paris, also known as the “Mont-de-piété,” the bank of the poor, has allowed the needy to get loans against their valuables for centuries—acting as a kind of ethical pawnshop, or the original microlender. To celebrate its 375th anniversary, thousands of lucky French people had their financial obligations forgiven after the country’s oldest bank decided to simply wipe their slates clean.
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Internet K Hole - Thanks Ben
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Channel 4 announcers constantly mispronounce The Simpsons (by JHmagic1)
I can confirm that this is 100% true and it’s been going on for about a month. It’s fucking amazing, like some sort of ongoing bet. But hey I do love The Cheese And Onions.
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Night Moves (1975) Dir. Arthur Penn
Gene Hackman is awesome as an everyday, flailing & failing private eye. Another revisionist PI film without the ha-has of The Long Goodbye but still pretty similar. When Hackman’s cheating wife comes home to find him watching a football game, she asks “Who’s winning?”. His response: Nobody, one sides just losing more slowly than the other”, which might just sum up this movie. A near-perfect 70s film.
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What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success »
Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the goal of the program that Finland instituted, resulting in so much success today, was never excellence. It was equity.
“When President Kennedy was making his appeal for advancing American science and technology by putting a man on the moon by the end of the 1960’s, many said it couldn’t be done,” Sahlberg said during his visit to New York. “But he had a dream. Just like Martin Luther King a few years later had a dream. Those dreams came true. Finland’s dream was that we want to have a good public education for every child regardless of where they go to school or what kind of families they come from, and many even in Finland said it couldn’t be done.”
Clearly, many were wrong. It is possible to create equality. And perhaps even more important — as a challenge to the American way of thinking about education reform — Finland’s experience shows that it is possible to achieve excellence by focusing not on competition, but on cooperation, and not on choice, but on equity.
The problem facing education in America isn’t the ethnic diversity of the population but the economic inequality of society, and this is precisely the problem that Finnish education reform addressed. More equity at home might just be what America needs to be more competitive abroad.
(Source: petitchou)
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January 5th 2012
That’s me.
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(Source: trashcanland)
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(by you can count on me)
Oh hey look, an old photo of mine from flickr. Time to re-visit sf?
