I am done with school lunches. When children's lunch schedule came home with nachos and mozzerella sticks as the hot meal of the day. I called up the head of the company that contracts to my kids school and he actually defended nachos and mozzerella sticks were in the "state requirements" and were a "healthy meal" My kids have some money left over from last year and then I packing from now on. I'm sorry nachos and mozzerella sticks aren't even a decent snack let alone a lunch. So crazy...

"See spot run" sight reading books...Children are not taught phonics, and while the majority of children can pick up on the phonetic meaning of the letters in each word, there is a large percentage that does not, and they receive zero assistance to correct the problem. They are simply pushed through the school system and left to fend for themselves.

Um Children ARE being taught phonics http://www.nifl.gov/childhood/phonicsIns.html

and Dick and Jane books haven't been taught in a very long while. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_and_Jane

He's still partying like it is 1999...I guess he didn't have internet then...unlike the rest of us

Ever hear of a place called Legoland? World of Warcraft Themepark could happen

In my future in 50 years there will be a World of Warcraft Themepark. Where I can take my grandkids on a Zepplin ride and go on Molten Core roller coasters and get their face painted like a Tauren and go to Lady Jaina princess breakfasts.

(I like my future better)

I actually enjoy playing WoW while watching the World Cup. I guess according to your definition that would make me a "well-adjusted, basement dwelling nerd"

Wow, I had no idea our textbooks had drifted so far to the left.

I don't perceive any true elements to that statement. Are middle Americans driving over exotic flora and fauna in their SUV's by shortcutting through the 'glades to get their groceries quicker? Or are acres of rain forest being burned and cut down every day by subsistence farmers in financial straits where they have no other options?

Only a small portion of the world can really argue from the position of having comfort to sacrifice things over, and those are in virtually all cases not the portions of the population on the front lines of our encroachment against nature.

I am not trying to tell you that reversing this trend is impossible, but we should not kid ourselves what socially deep roots would need to be cut or rearranged in order to affect change. So why don't you start by illustrating what comfort you could conceivably give up that would give Brazilian farmers an alternative to deforestation? Hint: it's not buying a hybrid.

I just don't have a good grasp on the whole "awareness" thing. There are plenty of things that plenty of people are not aware of, and probably should be, but it just doesn't seem that the more common deadly diseases fall in that category.

Q: "Were you aware of breast cancer?"
A: "Why no, I've never heard of that. Is that white meat chicken stuffed with crab meat?"
Q: "No, in fact, it's a life-threatening illness where doctors have to cut your boobs off to save your life."
A: "Outrage! Every boob is sacred! Why aren't we doing anything about this most important issue?!"

If the "awareness" is meant to drum up political support or funding, then okay, but I don't understand the strategy other than that.

So there's a financial incentive to keep IE6 around - for you guys.

Actually I do know my neighbors.

That's why I don't hang around with them. We have no common interests. I've got more in common with my coworkers (engineers/programmers/geeks who like scifi/technology/etc) and people I meet online, than the people in my hood.

Well, I don’t know about neck features, but I bet $100, that Jobs already has a least a dozen patents on himself. ^^

Really? Seems like the people throwing the fit are all the Android fans with their egotism and inflated idea of their own importance. All you guys do is bitch about Apple day in and day out. Ironically, creating more brand awareness of Apple and Apple mind-share in the blogs. All the while burying Android stories. Rather than complaining about Apple you should be chatting about Android if Android were actually better. But the Android interface blows compared to the Apple OS as several reviews have demonstrated.

One thing many first-day reviews of opera-mini said was that it was much faster then safari, even while on wifi.

I tried it yesterday (on wifi, since i have an ipod, not an iphone), and opera mini took serious time connecting to the opera servers, after which loading was fast. however, the opera-server connection pretty much killed it for me..

Opera mini is a nice try, and some things do improve on safari, but on the whole, what i really want is opera Mobile (and once the app store is open enough, CHROME) for the iphone/ipod

Unfortunately its a local company for me so i would be sad to see it go. It would lose our local economy a few dozen jobs, including mine.