TMTOWTDI

Doug Engelbart talks about how he taught his kids to ride a bike:
It turns out, you don’t have to steer if you just get a gentle, even back and forth see-sawing motion going with the handlebars as you roll along, the back and forth motion usually corrects the tilting soon enough and you won’t fall. [...]

I went along as a counselor-ish person on my school’s freshmen trip to Big Bend National Park! To go I had to write an essay that was reviewed by our Head of School. Seven seniors went on the 9th grade trip and two on the 10th grade trip.
Everyone–teachers, administrators, students, and seniors–had an amazing [...]

The new WhiteHouse.gov is already live (broken links and all). Check out this big difference (via http://codeulate.com/?p=24):
Obama’s two line robots.txt:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /includes/
Bush’s robots.txt (too long to put here – 2324 lines).
In a way it says something about the two administrations commitment to transparency and openness.
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Tag clouds of various inaugural speeches (via ReadWriteWeb).
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Was Condi Rice the [...]