Two cewebrities at one session

I am at the OAME 2012 Conference in Kingston, showing folks the new CLIPS wrapper, calculator and Multiplying Fractions Activities in development mode.  I did get a chance to see Dan Meyer's presentation on Thursday "Why Kids Hate Word Problems".  It was a sensible, craftful, and powerful appeal.

A delightful part was that by coincidence I sat next to another internet sensation, Mr. O.  Faithful readers of this blog (a bit of useful fiction) will remember my earlier post about this teacher at my alma mater and his 15 minutes of internet fame.  That post had some of the details wrong, apparently.  Mr. O was flown to Portugal for the making of a movie about the perfect circle and spoke at Art Basel, in Switzerland, about his experience.  He even spoke to producers at the Letterman show. Apparently, the video was shot in June 2006 by Glebe's webmaster, who you can hear in the background, and posted to their site where it received about as much interest as this blog.  In January, some kid in North Dakota posted it to YouTube, College Humor and some other sites.  It went viral and was YouTube's featured video for two weeks.  Mr. O. did not until that time even know what YouTube was.  He does now.

In case you require documentation, I have embedded the footage from the World Championship.

A large scale GPS art project

My blogsearch for Sketchpad bubbled this beauty to the top of my Reader.

The artist drew a self-portrait on the world and recorded the results at the Biggest Drawing in the World site.



The first thing I wondered about was putting the lat/long data into Fathom!

Do we love it enough to take care of it?

The world, I am writing of.



How long will it take for you to get that song out of your head? Is it only my Canadian sensibility that thinks the missile is out of place?

And if that is too heavy an issue for you, try this Friday Funny from my new favorite New Zealand folk duo parody band, the Flight of the Conchords.