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Hand a 3 year old a GBA? I don't think so. He can break Jello.

Sorry; I was thinking 5 rather than 3.

And the Berenstain Bears are a bunch of socialists.

What do you find wrong with a little socialism at the local level? Or could you show me where Libertarian privatization, such as of health and income insurance, has Just Worked(tm)?

I'd rather have the animism of Brother Bear.

Yeah, except the real Brother Bear is one of the Berenstain Bears. Disney just ripped off the name.

And already have Land Before Time and Secret of NIMH along with about 50 other movies for the monster

Even though I'm mostly boycotting Disney, I still occasionally watch Disney movies. I don't see them in theaters, I don't buy them on home video, and I don't rent them when they're new releases. I wait about a year (until they're $1 for 2 nights at the local Video Stop) and then rent them. Heck, if I can find them at the local public library, I get them for free (as in root beer) instead. This way, I get the most movie for my money, and Disney doesn't get as much to funnel back into lobbying. You might want to investigate this for your kid(s).

No way man! It sounds way more like something Lavar Burton came up with on Reading Rainbow.

"C'mon kids, put on your readhats and lets get started"

~Would it save you alot of time if I gave up and just went mad now?~

...the best (longest, most links...

Please...no, stop!! More links a in a story submission means the submission is likely to be inferior.

For example, here is part of a made-up submission:
Joe Clark writes "Nearly a year after an interview with this correspondent highlighted a few problems with Slashdot's HTML, Daniel M. Frommelt...

You are absolutely right. I notice this kind of thing all the time, and it makes me wonder what the hell is going on in the minds of people reared on MTV. This kind of visual busyness just hurts my head: it's too frantic.

I always think back to the Mr. Wizard show, and compare it to Bill Nye, the Science Guy. "Mr. Wizard" stood there and talked, and used live demonstrations to illustrate a point. The "Science Guy" ricochets from one end of the TV tube to the next, punctuated by BING, BANG, BONG!

"Oh, the fun of it all!"

Now that Fred Rogers is dead, the kids growing up today have absolutely no chance at normal cognitive development -- if they watch TV, that is. Everything seems to be a competition as to which show has the shiniest, flashiest objects.

• myname@la.la.la would be a great address to give when I have to give one to tech support drones,
• my private streaming music server could be at falalalala.lala.la.la,
• I could start a fan site,
• 
  etc.

That's PBS's Cyberchase, and yes, it gives hackers a bad name.

From what I have seen of the posts, I can't believe no one has mentioned PBS. There are all kind of educational things on their site for all age groups. As the child grows and becomes more educated, they can still visit the site and leran more. My kids (5 and 7 years old) love the Zoom and cyberchase pages.

From what I have seen of the posts, I can't believe no one has mentioned PBS. There are all kind of educational things on their site for all age groups. As the child grows and becomes more educated, they can still visit the site and leran more. My kids (5 and 7 years old) love the Zoom and cyberchase pages.

My 4 year old loves this site. She's always wanting to go to pbskids.org

PBS Kids The one caveat is that it requires Macromedia Flash...

Cyberchase My kids love it and it enables me to cultivate geekness in them.

Great idea you got there. I don't remember seeing anyone mention PBSKids It has ties to many educational/fun shows for kids from PBS.

Your particular audience is older than this, but for others who might be interested try PBS Kids. Hours and hours of entertainment for little tykes.

We found a local jewler and asked if he could fashion two gold rings in the shape of a mobius strip (a one sided one edged object). We showed him, out of paper, what a mobius strip was and what it could do. A month later, and for a total cost of $90 (in the 80's) we had two rings with a half twist. To make the rings comfortable and keep the twist in a certain place he had slightly flattened the underside of the ring so that it wouldn't ride around on our fingers. (for those interested, to make a one sided one edged solid gold object he created the twist in a mold and then poured the gold into the mold.)

I always liked the mobius strip rings... there is certainly symbolism in them (no 2 sides, but 1 side... 2 people working together as 1, etc...). Nobody else had anything like them and they were quite attractive.

Aloha Nui Loa for your upcoming wedding - hope to see you honeymoon here on the active volcano in Hawaii.

...so I could drive him insane by constantly refering to him as Tinky Winky. Time for Teletubbie Bye-Bye...

Yeah, I am posting this late, but I couldn't resist.

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Accessibility is not just for the blind. A Web site builder needs to think about if someone like Stephen Hawkings or Christopher Reeves could navigate the site as well, without just "tabbing" through every link. Also Web standards does not equal accessibility either.

A good example of an accessible site is the one for the School for the Blind.

I don't think Flash should go away, but designers need to decide when is an appropriate time to use it. Games sites like NickJr.com and PBS Kids make good use of Flash and shockwave(I have kids). But band sites and company sites that are all in Flash do little but get real annoying fast and alienate those who can't use the site.

Wired just recently did a complete redesign of their site to follow Web standards and use XHTML and CSS. More info is here.

There's even a cool Escher print based on it.

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You know you wrap your 105 key, "One purple Juicy Hole - For that special Barney the Dinosaur Feel" keyboard with saran wrap when you snap your chicken to gay negro porn.

You know you are the proud owner of not one, but two FU-FME drives for you computer!. You can enjoy being the pitcher and catcher on your cheesy, crap, 4th their lame communist Chinese built fucking CRAP computer.

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Getting kids involved with something "real" (insert "tangible" or "active" if you like) is one of the best ways I've found to get them interested (as a student and an instructor). Here's some stuff I did while teaching at summer day camps at the Capital Children's Museum a couple of years ago:

• Baking muffins to learn why breads have holes, and figuring out why one recipe used baking soda and one used baking powder (kitchen chemistry, as well as some acid-base stuff);
  
• Figuring out whether normal, dried or soaked popcorn kernels pop best (including taste-testing), and freezing ice cream using baggies, rock salt and ice (solids/liquids/gases)
  
• Making three kinds of "slime" (or gak or flubber) and explaining what non-Newtonian fluids are (my second-graders showed up some adults!)
  

Try these sites to get some ideas:

• The JASON project was started by Dr. Robert Ballard (the guy who discovered the Titanic and other sunken ships)
  
• Local colleges and high schools often present chemistry shows (or physics/science shows). Here's a plug for my alma mater: Lawrence University). I swear the show is more entertaining than the description on that page.
  
• PBS is full of things, including a show called ZOOM!, the ever-popular Newton's Apple, and wacky Bill Nye the Science Guy.
  
• At the U of W Madison, Prof. Shakhashiri created THE definitive books of demonstrations (Caution: he's kind of dry, but the demos are great!)
  
• Science museums also often have some sort of hands-on stuff. Go ahead and "borrow" from them! Here's the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry and the Science Museum of Minnesota
  

Good luck!

I know -- off subject -- mod down if you like. I was really interested in the story, but 5 seconds into the website I had decided it was not worth the price.

Flash must die. This website is a good example of why flash is a bad, bad, thing. As a matter of fact -- the only time I see flash as a good thing is for kids games. IE -- PBSkids.org where my kids can play games with cookie monster and such. But if you are a company trying to peddle a product and you build your whole site like this --- the web Gods must strike you down.

What if you had to type in your security code everytime you install something?
What if you didn't have sudo? Everyone who uses computers should become computer savvy people. Its really not that hard. They just need more videos of Sesame Street with computer commands and perl variables of the day. They need more channels on their TV playing things like Sesame Street. But nobody wants to learn when they're watching TV, that's kids stuff.

Laurie Bauer, public relations director for Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Best Buy, told Computerworld in an e-mail last night that the company had returned the wireless registers to service after adding additional security measures that she did not identify.

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...I'll have to agree. My son loves to play on Caillou's page. Specifically the Find Gilbert page.

The problem? On IE, there are sounds that play ("Caillou's talking to me, Daddy!"), but here on Konqueror, it doesn't play the sounds. So, bringing this back on topic, it's the sounds and flashy type stuff, that I personally find VERY annoying at times, that he loves.

Kids dig that stuff. Unfortunatly, if some add pulls it off right, he'd be clicking...

(P.S. He's not even 3 yet, so it's not much of an issue right now, but you see my point)

...I'll have to agree. My son loves to play on Caillou's page. Specifically the Find Gilbert page.

The problem? On IE, there are sounds that play ("Caillou's talking to me, Daddy!"), but here on Konqueror, it doesn't play the sounds. So, bringing this back on topic, it's the sounds and flashy type stuff, that I personally find VERY annoying at times, that he loves.

Kids dig that stuff. Unfortunatly, if some add pulls it off right, he'd be clicking...

(P.S. He's not even 3 yet, so it's not much of an issue right now, but you see my point)

However, many of the games *do* work with konqueror; in fact the one I mentioned above was the
only one I saw that doesn't work. So there is reason to be hopeful for linux on the desktop..
A working java applet :
game1
Working flash games :
game2
game3
game4

However, many of the games *do* work with konqueror; in fact the one I mentioned above was the
only one I saw that doesn't work. So there is reason to be hopeful for linux on the desktop..
A working java applet :
game1
Working flash games :
game2
game3
game4

However, many of the games *do* work with konqueror; in fact the one I mentioned above was the
only one I saw that doesn't work. So there is reason to be hopeful for linux on the desktop..
A working java applet :
game1
Working flash games :
game2
game3
game4

However, many of the games *do* work with konqueror; in fact the one I mentioned above was the
only one I saw that doesn't work. So there is reason to be hopeful for linux on the desktop..
A working java applet :
game1
Working flash games :
game2
game3
game4

were you able to play the games?
For example


http://pbskids.org/jayjay/fun.fly.game.html

I could not get this to work with either mozilla or konqueror...

Besides, on a good day you get to play "Confuse the Goose"...

Cheers,
Ian

NForce = NuisanceForce

You've probably seen some hardware reviews like this that describe some of the lateral front-side improvements that some of the ASIC frontiersmen have been embarking on, but the reality of it all doesn't always sink in during the course of creating a chipset duel like this. You can't ignore the inability to do PCI syncs on most of the higher-end pipelined components like the Creative Audigy and GeForce 3 Ti500.

If you dig a little, you'll see that those folks also have long history of solving problems like those described in your post. In fact, one of the market segments they've been targetting for the last few months involves sub-AGP register performance enhancement tailoring. So, while you end up with some benchmarks resembling AGP 8x, you find yourself wallowing in a sea of self-pity as your multimedia performace drops off the charts.

The practical implications of this are worse than vaporware. With all of this attention flowing in the direction of negative progress, we're likely to be more inhibited than we helped by this uncommitted branching of GDI code.

These bastards can take their front side resonating bleed factor, cover it in bubble wrap, and mail it to their mothers.

You! Yes, you, the concerned parent. Play with your fucking kids, get them a book or whatever and stop them from surfing the fucking net ON THEIR OWN and then stop the fucking whining you stupid fuck.

If you're too fucking lazy to watch over your children and teach them about shit yourself, it's your fault if they end up at rotten.com.

The Internet is not your fucking babysitter! There are web pages for children. Read them together. And shut the fuck up!!

I agree with you on many of those counts, but the issue is still you or me.

I don't have driver problems all the time, and I don't get error messages when I install my games. I too, like to play games sometimes for only 5 or 10 minutes, so I play:

Quake 3 Arena

CounterStrike

Ghost Recon

And for the kids we like:

Nick Jr.

PBS

Now I can image when my son outgrows those sites, he might be ready for a console. No one has really made that point here- they all cite drivers issues, error messages, etc. But my point is that many people may be buying into marketing and thinking they somehow need a console.

It sounds like they are trying to give control of my computer to the Teletubbies!

Now my 16 month old will be able to run my machine!

But, it'll also be there as MP3, RealAudio, and *gasp* Windows Media. As a practical matter, I don't really expect many people to download the Ogg file (I'm not really sure I expect many people to download any of the files, really.) We're putting it up there as Ogg Vorbis for 2 reasons. First of all, it's a matter of choice. Looking at the end user, we want people to be able to get the data they want, in the format they want it, with a minimum of fuss and muss. Secondly, and unofficially, it's a small show of support for free and open standards; a very minor political statement, if you will.

Which, to be quite honest, doesn't really bode well for the format. I'm not sure I can think of many technologies that overtook marketplace momentum because they were ideologically appealing.

what does your 8 year old need the internet for?

Even grade school children are being constantly inundated with information telling them they need to be on the internet. My daughter comes home from school with books or magazines full of URLs to info related to the magazine. She watches the educational shows on PBS and what follows every show? "Visit our web site at pbskids.org". Everything aimed at kids (and adults of course) these days has an internet magnet attached to the end. Everything has a "Please visit our web site" attached to it.

No, I don't let her go off by herself. The computer is in one of the main rooms of the house and she already knows the safe sites where she wants to go anyway. No, she doesn't need the internet, but when it's all she ever hears about, you're not going to keep her from wanting it. And if she's going to be on the internet, I'd rather it was at home where I can explain any questions that come up, rather than in secret at some friend's house.