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I suspect all you adults out there have the capability to skip over one small story once a year. If you can't, you could consider reading this website instead: https://pbskids.org/

And ask your mom for a juice box; that should make you feel better.

Specifically Dinosaur Train is a very popular franchise in the US. At least it is between my daughter and her friends. :)

Bad HTML is Bad. PBS Kids REAL website

The only solution I see is a mandatory license to use the electronics akin to drivers license. Believe it or not, the idiot user is not only a nuisance but a danger to others.

I have often pondered the idea of an internet license. I reject it on philosophical grounds, especially since it would require that at some level one would be forced to forgo anonymity. But one would think it to be a great temptation to the US authorities at the state and federal level.. Not to mention more-repressive governments elsewhere. You need a radio license. And a driver's licence. And, depending on the state, a gun license. Then there is the hunting license the fishing license etc etc. An internet license seems like a natural evolution, especially since an irresponsible wanker with a broadband connection can do a lot of harm simply through ignorance. Also intentional bad actors could have their internet license taken away. Fees could be used to fight cyber crime blah blah blah. Kids could be given kiddie access only to the kiddie net. And so on.

Many security problems would be reduced, but not, of course, eliminated for obvious reasons.. But also customers for PCs, software and broadband would be reduced in number as well. It is interesting, but I rarely see the possibility of a license raised. I hate to even mention it here lest it give people ideas. But you brought it up and I couldn't help but comment. Now a quick Google and I found this.

Yikes!

You seem to be in a bad mood. All. The. Time.

I'll just leave this here for you.

Facts and Opinions

"All that can be done in a rational world is to oppose the hate when it makes itself manifest by its vile actions."

It's a little more complex than that. One can ask:
* What dysfunction leads to the hate, and can it be fixed before the hate manifests itself?
* If the hate is there, how can one prevent it from being acted on by the context around the hate?
* If the hate is being acted on, how can one respond to it effectively, given that acts claimed to be justified against those who hate can themselves be hateful and/or cause more hate?

All too often, the response to hate creates more hate. And violence begets violence. Dysfunction spreads like a disease. If one sees hate and violence as like a disease, what is the right response to it? One set of idea:
"Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World"
http://www.amazon.com/Creating-True-Peace-Violence-Community/dp/0743245202

In general, as a society, how can we move beyond black/white thinking, to thinking in color?
http://www.anwot.org/

Still, there remains truth in your point, that there are people who hate, who are damaged, and others need to figure out how to respond to that situation (even if the haters are responding in kind to previous hate). It's a big challenge. And there is often a conflict, that the permissive policies that sometimes might prevent hate might allow existing hate to persist. It's not an easy thing to deal with.

A general field can be seen as Peace Making. Morton Deutsch outlines some ideas here:
http://www.beyondintractability.org/audiodisplay/deutsch-m

Dealing with hate and dysfunction is a core theme of some North Eastern Native American culture:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadodaho
http://www.amazon.com/Become-Human-Being-Tadodaho-Shenandoah/dp/1571743413

Ultimately, as Mr. Fred Rogers says, it's OK to have negative emotions like anger. The issue is what we do with them...
http://pbskids.org/rogers/songLyricsWhatDoYouDo.html

I agree with the original poster that Google should offer a Kid search engine or a kid's version of YouTube. That would be awesome and I am very sure a lot of schools would love this concept as well. That said, there are plenty solutions available that can be implemented on the client side. I have absolutely no stake in any of the following companies but I am a father of three and love what they offer. My kids love Zoodles which is pretty much a collection of age appropriate content for kids of all ages. You can find a lot more in the educational arena, like Nick Boost or PBS Kids. Just pick your children's favorite TV channel and chances are they have a lot of online content for your child to play with. Getting age appropriate content is very easy. Even on the search engine side of things we have kid safe offerings. There is Kid Rex and plenty other Google based search engines. Last but not least you should make sure your child can only access child appropriate URLs. For that you can choose any of the web browsers and built-in OS mechanisms to restrict web access. My favorite child browsers are KidZui and the now defunct Kid's Browser.

"We need to train people in martial arts (Judo, Aikido, etc) so they can defend themselves"

Having training in Aikido, I think the main reason people should learn that is to be able to redirect aggressive impulses in more positive directions. :-) Which is essentially what the entire art is about...
    "Aikido, redirecting an attacker’s hostile energy"
    http://www.mvccglacier.com/2010/11/aikido-redirecting-an-attackers-hostile-energy/

Or, in other words, accepting that all emotions can be valid and healthy, it is what we do with them that matters most:
    "What do you do with the mad that you feel"
    http://pbskids.org/rogers/songLyricsWhatDoYouDo.html

So, how does a war machine better allow us to do better Aikido at redirecting another's hostile energy in positive directions? Maybe some aspects of it do. So, can you find those aspects and build on them?

More on the true spirit of Aikido:
    "Terry Dobson's Aikido Story: a paraphrasing of "Another Way""
    http://unofficial.ki-society.org/another.html
"""
Terry Dobson was riding on a train in Japan (in the 60's?), when a drunken man boarded. The man was violent, aggressive, and a real physical threat to the other passengers, whom he pushed around and bullied.
    Dobson had been intensively training in aikido almost every day for three years, and was eager to put that practice into "real" action. Although he knew his teacher had said that aikido is the art of reconciliation, and that even wanting to fight means that you've already lost touch with the Universe, Dobson, in his youthful eager way, wanted to physically take down this threatening drunk in an act of righteous justice.
    Just as Dobson was starting to egg the drunk into attacking him, however, a little old man interrupted by calling out joyfully to the drunken man. In a cheerful manner, the little old man started talking to the drunk, asking friendly questions and going on about his own family and the persimmon tree in his garden.
    Soon thereafter, the drunk's nasty exterior had melted away. He was weeping, explaining his wife had died, that he'd lost his job and his home, and that his life was a total wreck and that he was terribly ashamed ... he was lying with his head on the little old man's lap, while the old man stroked his dirty hair. The would-be attacker had been brought to peace -- all without a single martial arts move.
    Dobson realized that what he had witnessed was real aikido in action. What he had wanted to do -- vigilante-style, self-righteous justice -- was not aikido. What the old man had done, though, was aikido as it was meant to be -- humble, gentle love, bringing peace and healing.
"""

So, yes, I agree with you. More people should study Aikido. :-) But for more for learning about "reconciliation" than "how to hurt someone else who you see as threatening".

"On the other hand, not eating your veggies just affects your own health."

Well, are you saying being vegetable deficient (or eating too much sugar and refined starch etc.) does not put everyone else's health at risk as well, by the same argument you use for promoting vaccination, if such an eating style compromises someone's immune system?

Example:
    http://www.google.com/search?q=immune+system+vegetables
    http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/587037/best_fruits_and_vegetables_to_help.html
"Regularly eating fresh fruits and vegetables is the natural way to boost your immune system."

I'm not saying whether that applies to you. That is just a general fact about health. And even the most casual glance at US Americans shows almost all are vegetable deficient.

I personally am not angry with you whatever you eat or why; you just sounded angry about the vaccination issue. I'm just asking you, if that anger exists and is justified, is it legitimate to consider such anger applicable for other contexts?

It's OK to be angry, even healthy; it's what we do with the anger that matters.
    http://pbskids.org/rogers/songLyricsWhatDoYouDo.html

Should I get angry when I see someone drive up to a fast food restaurant?

It would seem to me that if a person is not eating well, and then that person's immune system can't fight off infection well because that person is vegetable deficient by a lifestyle choice or unwillingness to break out of a "pleasure trap", then that person is creating a health hazard for other people?

Of course, not many people know about pleasure traps or how to break out of them, so the issue of willfullness is questionable, and in this society, the whole society essentially makes it hard to eat well:
    http://www.seriouseats.com/2007/11/the-subsidized-food-pyramid.html
    http://drfuhrman.com/library/article16.aspx
    http://paulgraham.com/addiction.html
"These two senses are already quite far apart. Already someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly."

With that said, I can see your point about the issue of what public figures say as opposed to what private individuals do, which is indeed a very good point I can agree with.

My daughter is four and a half and I have an old work laptop built up for her. She's got some good mousing skills and scored an OCD ranking in one World of Goo level while I was doing the washing up.

Anyway....I've scoured around trying to find good content and have a good list. Steer clear of all the Disney and other commerical stuff, that stuff will rot their brains. It's also badly coded and mainly a vehicle to advertise to the kids.

This is what I have installed on her laptop. They are all links to flash sites as almost all good kids stuff is on-line now. Anything that you have to install probably lists Windows ME as the system requirement on the box:

1) Poisson Rouge (http://www.poissonrouge.com/) - This is a French/English flash site with has no instructions and just encourages the child to explore the pages and work out what to do. It's probably the best site on-line for the 3-5 age group.

2) Boowah & Kwala (http://boowakwala.uptoten.com/) - This is another French/English site originally made by a husband and wife for their daughter and has grown from there. It's more instructional in its activities, but has an enormous amount of content delivered in a great way. The two main characters (see the names) are voiced by the parents and are very funny.

3) Sesame Street (http://www.sesamestreet.org/) - This one is a no-brainer...they have a great variety of games for different ages.

4) StarFall (http://www.starfall.com/) – A reading site that runs from letter recognition all the way to full reading. It’s got some very fun stuff in it.

5) WordWorld (http://pbskids.org/wordworld/index_flash.html) – A very rich and interactive reading site with lots of fun characters made out of letters.

Enjoy!

I've got a desktop in the basement with just a vga cable, usb cable and audio coming up through the floor. This way he (and, more importantly, his 2 year-old brother) can't damage the CD drive, etc. Tray-loading drives are immensely popular with the "break things" set.

He spends the vast majority of his computer time in Chrome, at:

Starfall (by far my personal favorite, if you've got a toddler around, spend some quality Starfall time with them)
PBS Kids
Playhouse Disney
Nick Jr.

We also have 2-3 Dora games installed, as well as a Cool School keyboard, which came with some very cool games. Amazon carries them, and eBay has quite a few for cheap.

He loves Photobooth on my macbook, so I found Snap, and set up a webcam for him to make crazy pictures of himself and his brother.

Also, I would make sure that there's an easy-to-find shortcut to good ol' Paint. He loves playing with it, and it's one of the more creative things he can do, rather than just doing what a game or a website tells him to.

The main thing though is to control logon time using NET USER. I'd only allow a one or two hour slot each day and one or two rest days with no access permitted. Be brutal and blame the computer when it says "logon has time limits".

If you're 8 years old:

http://pbskids.org/fetch/games/germinator/

I think my favorite thing about asking parenting questions on the internet is the number of "holier than thou" answers you'll get in response. Actually, scratch that - if you ask a straightforward, scope-limited parenting question specific to your needs and situation anywhere in the world and you'll get an answer that basically boils down to "you're doing it wrong." It's all part of the experience, so I've learned to chuckle at the cognitive disconnect that comes from asking about the right age to introduce popcorn and getting a lecture on the best way to wring out dirty rags in return.

Anyway, to actually answer your question, I believe you're looking for this:
    http://www.amazon.com/Crayola-Keyboard-Mouse-Pad-Bundle/dp/B001KVNRXU

As for software, I've found that creating a password-protected guest account on the machine with a limited number of pre-screened options to be best. Individual hyperlinks to YouTube videos on subjects your child enjoys (for us, it's Pocoyo videos, parrots, and babies laughing) on the desktop largely do the trick, along with links to kid-friendly sites ( http://pbskids.org/ , http://www.nickjr.com/kids-games/ being two examples, depending on your tolerance for advertising ). Others have mentioned games like minesweeper, solitaire (even if they don't grasp the actual game itself), or even Portal. These are all good choices. I'm sure you'll know of some more options based on what your child enjoys.

Best of luck!

You said,

No shit..not to mention the guy totally looks like a pedophile/rapist. Way to ignore all red flags...

And then you said,

It's called intuition. Some people have it more than others apparently...

Nope. You're just too stupid to realize how stupid you are. You are the type of person who votes in bad politicians because of the suits they wear and the confidence in their voice, and who convicts innocent people of murder (if on a jury) because you see "evil in their eyes". People like you also let guilty people go free because they don't look evil.

You also remind me of some people who said that Heinrich Himmler (the Nazi in charge of the Final Solution) has a pleasant, school teachers face. And of the victims who don't put up their guard when dealing with handsome and polite serial killers and wife beaters.

You can judge people with your intuition, but I prefer to judge people based on my intelligence and logic skills. I don't need to know what you look like in order to judge you, I can tell merely by the type of arguments and reasoning you use.

Martin Luther King once said,

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

It's too bad that based on your "intuition" (what the rest of us call prejudice), so many people will be continue to be demonized, bullied, ostracized, under-employed, glass-ceiling-ed at work, and generally marginalized.

In reality, it should be how people are on the inside that counts, not on the outside.

Mr. Rogers said that looks don't matter:,

It's not the things you wear,
It's not the way you do your hair--
But it's you I like.
The way you are right now,
The way down deep inside you--
Not the things that hide you,
Not your toys--
They're just beside you.

So you can live inside of your fantasy world where pedophiles and rapists are ugly, white, unemployed men who generally have goatees; and good people are handsome, suit wearing businessmen who are successful at sales. I'd rather live in reality.

Here is how to solve that.

You put an agency in charge of verifying the site owners.
Make site owners liable.
You make it cost a few thousand dollars a year. Make it so they can loose it. the domain with no refunds.

In other word, fence that garden.

Make these people the watch dogs:

http://pbskids.org/

They don't like something they send notification of it to the agency in charge and the site owner.
upon verification, the site is pulled.

I decided to post the whole thing as a reply here since it is not easily accessible, even though there are a couple of replies there and additional comments by me.

Embedded software developer Joseph Stack allegedly intentionally flew a small plane into government offices in Austin, TX, in an act that has been labeled as domestic terrorism. He cited, among other things, IRS regulations about independent contractor status as well as other issues related to government corruption.

Could his behavior have been partially due to vitamin D deficiency syndrome from indoor work? Could vitamin D deficiency also have contributed to the violent behavior alleged of Hans Reiser or Amy Bishop? And is part of the problem also that Joe Stack was not talking to anyone about any of this to think through real solutions and find positive things to do that, as Mr. Rogers sang, would not hurt himself or anyone else?

Here are some useful resources for preventing more copycat violence to show how there are plenty of alternatives to violence despite Joe Stack's claim otherwise in his manifesto:

Treating Disease With Vitamin D

Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy

Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life's Ordeals

Albert Einstein on: Religion and Science

A wombat talks about a global mindshift

TED | Peter Eigen on moving beyond corruption

The Optimism of Uncertainty

Social Movements and Strategic Nonviolence

As another software developer who has done embedded work, here are some non-programming things I've worked on related to helping people see positive alternatives to violence:

Possible cures for a jobless recovery

Post-Scarcity Princeton, or, Reading between the lines of PAW for prospective Princeton students, or, the Health Risks of Heart Disease

Rebutting Communiqué from an Absent Future

The amazing thing to me is not that stuff like this happens. What is amazing is that it does not happen more often, which is a tribute to most of humanity's basic social nature. In a way, even Joe Stack chose a relatively limited approach; an embedded software developer such as he was could have done far more damage if trying to create general mayhem (he could have tampered with nuclear power plants or medical devices or airplane software). There is also irony here that a person took a very advanced piece of technology — a private airplane, and all that it represents as a technological marvel — and used it to destroy a past instead of to create a future.

What do people think and feel about all this?

http://pbskids.org/barney/

You've just equated Nazis and the KKK with Teletubbies in terms of offensiveness. Bravo

You don't know teletubbies at all, infidel. As you can easily see with your intolerant eyes Lala is completely NAKED and this is a disrespect causing outrage for all muslim people! Buy a burqua for allah sake.

I built a boat like this when i was in grade 3.

http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/phenom/soappoweredboat.html

The Boohbah website also has this kind of stuff. It's a flash app you should put in full screen mode. There are more sites like this if you look around, as every tv show has a web page nowadays.

Take a look at http://www.pbskids.org/ plenty of stuff there. My 2 year old loves it.

Hello

Having children in that age range, and having looked to some degree I haven't found any GPL educational games that really got my kids interest (Tux paint held the 6 year olds attention for an afternoon).

What has held my children's interest are games on the following websites:
http://www.pbskids.org/
http://funschool.kaboose.com/
http://www.starfall.com/
http://kids.discovery.com/

The problem of control was a tough one. The solution came from pigeons. While watching pigeons flying, Wilbur and Orville Wright noticed that the birds kept adjusting the positions of their wings. When a bird wanted to turn, it lifted the front edge of one wing while tilting the edge of the other wing down. By reversing the process, the bird could turn the opposite way.

Heh, my kid is a mini gammer as well.

He started off at http://pbskids.org/ playing the bunny games on the Teletubby page (move mouse, bunnies hope and make sound). One day I came home and he had managed to figure out how to navigate around the teletubby page, so I helped him learn how to play the games that required mouse clicking. Not long after that, he figured out how to navigate the PBSKids page and get to the pages for other brands. But I was really amazed when he managed to find Caiyou(sp?)'s train game, and beat it. It's a basic puzzle game, a train track that is missing some pieces, you have to drag differently shaped piece onto the track to complete the path. And here's a 2.5 year old kid who's having a blast doing it.

My wife and I also play World of Warcraft. We usually wait until after he goes to bed to fire up the ol' addiction, but some slow weekend afternoons we'll play for a bit while he's up. He was interested, so we gave him his own little toon. My wife leveled up a warlock to level 5 and got him an imp (imp is automatically defensive). So he runs around the newblet area killing wolves and cheering "For the horde!". You do have to keep an eye on him though as there are other people around, and they will try to talk to him. Not that he can read most of the words they say (he's not quite 4 yet), but I'd prefer to not have people trying to cyber with my toddler. WoW also get's reinacted in the living room as he chases imaginary beasts down and loots their corpses. It is a very energetic, noisy, and humorous game.

And recently he's been brushing up on his driving skills with Need For Speed. And while his driving skills in the game have been improving amazingly, his non-computer racing games with matchbox cars, and sprinting around the house have also improved his motor imitation sound, and his running ability ;)

Anyways, I'm with you and the GP. Games are fine, so long as we, the parents, are involved and we balance the computer time with active time and more directly educational time.

-Rick

What is the "wrong behavior" that it is modeling - that you shouldn't EAT PIPES?? Oh but I guess sitting down and woffing back 30 -40 cookies at one sitting is OK behavior? No wonder America is so obese.

...it certainly does not support your lie that I want to deny them all medicare are.

*all*? :-) See ya...

My six-year-old daughter is currently enthralled with Cyberchase, a PBS cartoon that actually does a pretty respectable job teaching basic math concepts. Her singing of its repetitive and insanely peppy themesong is driving my out of my mind, though.

Thanks for the info. My son and daughter (5 & 2) like to play flash/shockwave games on:

http://www.noggin.com/

http://www.nickjr.com/

http://pbskids.org/

I have an Xbox and wish there were more kids games for it. I will be buying a Wii next.

Well, as another article today points out, apparently, you can.

You're a real l33+ d00d, aren't ya? Must've passed the Web License with flying colors, right?

Amen to this. My 3-year-old's online adventures are currently limited to supervised visits to the Flash-based games portion of the pbskids.org website, especially the content for Curious George and Dragon Tales. It's a great way for him to learn keyboard, mouse and browsing skills - plus what he learns from the games et al on the site.

You should not belittle DW. Her artistic talents are unmatched.

For a sample, check here:

http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/artstudio/

(flash required)

signed

Arthur

...TV's leading expert, who said in a recent interview "Me abuse cookies? No way! See? (Hey, you know where me can get some biscotti? C'mon, help a monster out. Just this once. Me can stop any time me wants.)"

sqrt is a slightly advanced fundamental mathematical function.

rational (as in it is possible to express the value as a fraction) is an advanced concept. That concept, while it takes logic to prove, also requires education. And I have yet to see anyone here prove that sqrt(2) is not rational using a line by line algebraic proof.

Someone threw out the bogus age of 10 for this material. I'd like to know what school district they grew up in, because I'm pretty damn sure we didn't get into algebraic proofs until 8th grade in my school system. I don't remember even hitting the proof of rational numbers until Algebra 2 in high school. For most students, that would have been Junior year (alg I-frosh, geometry-soph, agl II-junior, pre-calc-seniors), although some of us crammed geometry and algebra II into sophomore year so we could hit Calc or AP Calc senior year.

Any ways, it matters on what you want to test. If you want to test a person's ability to handle logic, then proving that sqrt(2) is irrational is a poor question. There are two possible ways to solve it. 1) Remembering the formula and proofing process from high school, or 2) Logically producing the proof on the spot, not from memory. The first option makes this a poor question because, as I have stated, you are testing the person's memory and education, NOT THEIR LOGIC ABILITY. The second option sucks because it will likely take the person a long period of time to devise a theory and a way to test that theory. But hey, if your interview process is a year long, includes peer review, and you promise not to drown the applicant at the end of their proof, then yes, this could be a great question. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_root_of_two)

You want to know a great logic question? I just ran into it the other day while playing with my son on the computer. Someplace buried in http://pbskids.org/ there is a train game. You have 10 rail road sections in incremental sizes from .1 to 1. As each screen loads, there is one or more sections of track missing. Your job is to combine the sections of track to come up with a specific combination that exactly fills all of the gaps in the track. It's a simple little game that requires only basic math, but a great amount of logic skill to identify the best (and sometimes only) possible solution. A cleaned up version of that game with a timer would make an excellent choice for a logic test.

-Rick

For the father of the seven-year-old who wants experiments to do at home - try watching Zoom, on PBS. It's all about doing experiments and other activities at home, documenting the results, and sending them to the web site to compare with other kids' results. Basically, it's teaching the foundations of the scientific method. (Full Disclosure - I was lead developer for the Zoom web site for two years.)

Why did Barney the Dinosaur become so huge? Marketing. Do you think a parent who cares about their child would subject their child to the mind numbing antics of a purple dinosaur? Do parents who subject their children to Barney even watch and see what they are showing their children?

The funny thing is, I felt the same way as you, until... I saw "The Wiggles". I have 5 kids (youngest is 2 years old), so I have seen just about every kids show out there. The new crop is downright disturbing. It has left be BEGGING for Barney. While Barney is a little creepy, the content of the show is relevant and pragmatic for the target age group.

In contrast, shows like The Wiggles, Boohbah, and LazyTown demonstrate bizarre, atypical behavior. As a parent, I don't feel comfortable letting my 2 year old watch these shows. They are stupid, disturbing, and vapid of any educational value. It has given me a much better appreciation for Barney.

I always knew there was something sinister about this creature

Actually, Zoom is on at 3pm.

Seriously, @work we use win2k, and there is no big chance it will be changed now, given all the trouble we had certifiying/patching/etc.

The only major incentive to change would be a major security hole that went unpatched. Given what happened to win98, I have the feeling that MS is in for yet another: "(angry background noise from the business world): OK, OK, here are X years more of support"

Like this?

Not to be confused with the Berenstain Bears.

is apparently available here

than THIS Hood

Free Related Link... No, uh, strings attached!!!

it strikes me that we, as the slashdot crowd, tend to be the types where our jobs are highly dependant upon computers and thus as we progress in our careers, we care more and more about security of our blessed boxes. The health of these boxes are as important as the specific tasks whos sucess pay our bills. We care about our computers and the health of our friend's, family's and even stranger's computers.

In the mean time, the rest of the population care about learning, communication and entertainment.

I guess what I am getting at is most of us bash Microsoft because they choose usability (not the disability flavor, just that it works) over security. Slashdotters generally have a distaste for Flash even if it is because it is used gratuitously for entertainment. We choose to block ads and popups and some of us IMAGES because we feel it is useless and fluffy even though it is the main source of revenue for many businesses' web endevours. But the thing is, most folks ont he internet care that when their kid goes to PBS Kids, it works. When they go to their favorite mainstream band's website, it just works. When they go to their bank's website, it just works. When they want to play Yahoo games or take part in fantasy sports, it all just works.

Where Microsoft suceeds is giving the consumer what they WANT. For stuff to work, even if it means that their computer is riddled with spyware and viruses. As long as their credit card number doesn't get swiped or find kiddee pr0n on their computer and everything else works, they are satisfied.

I saw that someone wrote that Opera is a superior browser. While they are correct when using their guidelines, most end users would feel quite the opposite. Opera, at least with older incarnations, has not been a mainstream friendly browser. As an advanced user, I think its great. My mom, my kid and most folks int he public school system I work in think otherwise.

We all know that a lot of user's problems with a computer gone "bad" would disappear without IE 5.5. But of course, many folks wouldn't want to use the web as much without the end user usability IE 5.5 has provided. Quite the double edged sword and frankly, we here at Slashdot are the minority in the internet using world.

Barney is not music? Dude, WTF?

Or Zoboomafoo's Noggendrill
http://pbskids.org/zoboo/zobooland/noggindrill.htm l

It's okay, your kids won't be doing much of anything while they're on this acid trip.

the terror color code thing has my little cousin scared of clifford the big red dog because he thinks he's a severe terror threat

I dunno, a large red dog the size of Clifford would be pretty terrifying.