I think your walking into dangerous territory. Teaching is NOT A career for people looking to "innovate". Most teachers are quite happy to teach the same lesson every year, for the next 20 years. I am a former teacher, and I tell you that while your students may love you, one "oh no" moment with this online stuff and you'll find yourself out of job. I know you are young and idealistic (and hopefully, a woman), but teaching is a political game, fraught with danger, low pay, and endless politics. The kids are the best.

Nobody cares about the G*ddamn Higgs Boson as a sign of genius. Build me a frakkin' Holodeck so I can create an army of Playboy Playmates. If the Holodecks a rockin', don't come a knockin'.

... the Palm will be squeezed out again. I think Palm had a great product 10 years ago, but seem to be a day late and a dollar short when it comes to new technology. The Pre LOOKS good, but after using it, you kinda get the feeling it could have been done better. I think once users start getting the HTC Hero (Android) phone, Palm will be an also-ran. Developers will move to the Android market. Just my opinion.

I benchmarked all the Mac Browsers using Peacemaker as a benchmark.
http://www.iheinrich.com/blog/?p=1054

Safari 4.0 and iCab 4.5 were the fastest.

I also benchmarked the Windows Browsers using Peacemaker (on PC).

http://www.iheinrich.com/blog/?p=1093

Safari 4.0 was much faster than Firefox.

can't some bright guy write a script to collect all the all the images uploaded every day and put into a "contact sheet"... you could look at a whole swath of images in one fell swoop.. I wonder how many images do they get a day?

When I was in the Navy, my Captain was a submariner and my XO (2nd in command) was a helicopter pilot.

These two guys didn't get along.

In one (of many) knock down drag 'em out verbal exchanges the two had, the Captain yelled at the XO,
"There are more helicopters at the bottom of the sea then there are submarines in the sky!!"