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font-family: arial; color: #4c4c4c; background: #cccccc; border: solid 4px #336600; width: 100%; clear: left;"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #cccccc;"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;"> <tr> <td valign="top"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="clipmarks' clip-to-blog"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/21da4b65-d866-4eb4-8ab2-80979e03a440/5FDE0549-6248-4C01-A304-C5E49A23E61A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5568583" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5568583" style="font-size: 11px;">www.npr.org</a></td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;"> <tr> <td valign="top"><br /> <div align="center"><img src="http://content1.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.npr.org/img/C5930306-E2C1-41A8-9B71-5624D4FA727D" alt="Tony Hawk" /></div> </td> </tr> </table> <div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;"> <tr> <td valign="top"><P>It’s true. Skateboarding doesn’t seem like real work, but I’m proud of what I do. My parents never once questioned the practicality behind my passion, even when I had to scrape together gas money and regarded dinner at Taco Bell as a big night out.</P></td> </tr> </table> <div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;"> <tr> <td valign="top"><P>You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.</P></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/08/27/find-the-thing-you-love/#respond" title="Comment on Find the Thing You Love">Comments</a> </p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-288"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/08/16/whos-editing-wikipedia/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to Who’s Editing Wikipedia?">Who’s Editing Wikipedia?</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> August 16th, 2007 at 1:49 pm (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/unschooling-life/" title="View all posts in Unschooling Life" rel="category tag">Unschooling Life</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <div > I love Wikipedia. I really do. But deep down, I knew this was going on, and it’s nice to have proof. </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #4c4c4c; background: #cccccc; border: solid 4px #336600; width: 100%; clear: left;"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #cccccc;"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;"> <tr> <td valign="top"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="clipmarks' clip-to-blog"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/ae1ac87b-cc07-4745-a260-3dbb6dd5e877/59771E29-B47C-47BC-8DC0-A7820F69F3B0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12823729&ft=1&f=1" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12823729&ft=1&f=1" style="font-size: 11px;">www.npr.org</a></td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;"> <tr> <td valign="top"><P><SPAN class="program"><EM><A href="http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=3">Morning Edition</A>, </EM></SPAN><SPAN class="date">August 16, 2007 � </SPAN> You might have suspected it, and ignored it until now in your online life: <A target="_BLANK" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikipedia</A> isn’t the most reliable reference. It’s just often the first source to come up when you do an online search. </P></td> </tr> </table> <div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;"> <tr> <td valign="top"><P>If you follow the IP address trail, you’ll see that often the editors of an entry are “interested parties,” not just encyclopedia nerds who want to make sure the facts are straight. </P></td> </tr> </table> <div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;"> <tr> <td valign="top"><P>The trail to wiki-understanding was forged by Virgil Griffith, a California Institute of Technology grad student. He created a database called the <A target="_BLANK" href="http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/">Wikipedia Scanner</A>, a search tool that traces the comments and edits on Wikipedia entries back to their source IP address. The once-anonymous writers behind the entries are no longer quite so anonymous. </P></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/08/16/whos-editing-wikipedia/#respond" title="Comment on Who's Editing Wikipedia?">Comments</a> </p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-287"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/08/12/new-widget/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to New Widget!">New Widget!</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> August 12th, 2007 at 10:28 pm (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/unschooling-life/" title="View all posts in Unschooling Life" rel="category tag">Unschooling Life</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <p>With a little (okay, a lot of) help from my brother and webmaster extraordinaire Sean, I’ve installed a new widget on the sidebar of the blog. Now you can see random selections of unschooling books and our favorite resources attainable through Amazon. Very cool little plugin, once we finally got it working correctly. Click refresh a few times and see what pops up! </p> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/08/12/new-widget/#respond" title="Comment on New Widget!">Comments</a> </p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-279"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/07/27/harry-potter-of-course/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to Harry Potter, Of Course">Harry Potter, Of Course</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> July 27th, 2007 at 12:02 am (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/unschooling-life/" title="View all posts in Unschooling Life" rel="category tag">Unschooling Life</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <p>Friday night, we decided to head out to Austin’s largest <em>Deathly Hallows</em> release party. It was a perfect night for it, and Kenzie was excited. He dressed in his long, blue cloak, grabbed his wand, and off we all went - Kenzie, my brother Sean, and me. We were surprised to find so many other people had decided to bid farewell to Harry. There were literally thousands of people gathered in the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bookpeople.com/">Book People</a> parking lot - so many that the lines to each event were often hundreds of people long. We lucked out and found a great seat for the fire dancers.</p> <p><img id="image276" alt="fire-dancers1.jpg" src="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/fire-dancers1.jpg" /></p> <p><img id="image277" alt="fire-dancers2.jpg" src="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/fire-dancers2.jpg" /></p> <p><img id="image278" alt="fire-dancers3.jpg" src="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/fire-dancers3.jpg" /></p> <p>We wandered around for a little while, looking at some of the amazing costumes, and we ran into an unschooling family we know from game day. After that, though, Kenzie was ready to leave. No biggie, since we couldn’t buy the book at Book People, anyway, as they were sold out. They had given out all of their vouchers, and we didn’t have one. So, we headed to Sonic to have some ice cream and wait for midnight. From there, it was off to the local Wally World to pick up the book (after standing in a <em>Deathly Hallows</em> line for a good 45 minutes, of course). Kenzie also got a free poster and wristbands for each of the four houses (he’s been wearing the Gryffindor wristband ever since).</p> <p>Of course, the rest of the night was spent reading (and trying terribly hard not to give away the plot before I was able to read it, too).</p> <p>Saturday night, we went to the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thestoryoftexas.com/">Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum</a> to watch the midnight showing of <em>The Order of the Phoenix</em> on their IMAX screen. Well, we actually showed up for one of the two 9:00 showings, but both were completely sold out - even a half hour before showtime! So, we walked over to the UT campus to hang out for a while in the student center.</p> <p>Back at the IMAX, the 3D glasses they handed us were enormous! They covered our entire foreheads! We realized why, of course, once we put them on and stared at the extra-tall screen. The 3D scenes weren’t anything to shout about, but the movie, itself, was wonderful. Kenzie and I were riveted to our seats (which was a good thing, since there were at least a dozen people on either side of us - getting up would have been quite an adventure).</p> <p>After we made it back home, Kenzie settled into a comfy chair and took up reading where he’d left off. By Tuesday night, he had finished the book. He’s been good, though, and hasn’t told me the fates of any of our favorite characters. Thank goodness.</p> <p>Looks like I have quite a bit of catching up to do…. </p> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/07/27/harry-potter-of-course/#respond" title="Comment on Harry Potter, Of Course">Comments</a> </p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-275"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/07/26/mika-mika-mika/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to Mika, Mika, Mika!">Mika, Mika, Mika!</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> July 26th, 2007 at 9:40 pm (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/unschooling-life/" title="View all posts in Unschooling Life" rel="category tag">Unschooling Life</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <p>Since he found out a few days ago that <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mikasounds.com/uk.php">Mika</a> would be performing on the show <em>So You Think You Can Dance</em>, Kenzie’s been waiting with baited breath. Between Mika on <em>So You Think</em>…, Tom Petty as Lucky on <em>King of the Hill </em>reruns, Shawn Colvin as a Christian singer on <em>The Simpsons</em> reruns, and the recent Elton John 60th birthday special, Kenzie’s had a heaping plateful of favorite musicians on television over the past few weeks. Lucky kiddo.</p> <p><img alt="mika-album-cover.jpg" id="image274" src="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/mika-album-cover.jpg" /> <img alt="mika.jpg" id="image273" src="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/mika.jpg" /><br /> When I asked him what the show was like (since we’ve never watched it), he said, “Well, I don’t like the costumes. The women were poorly clad. One of them was wearing just a bra and panties!” Oh, how I smiled and laughed. </p> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/07/26/mika-mika-mika/#respond" title="Comment on Mika, Mika, Mika!">Comments</a> </p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-267"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/07/17/my-unschooling-articles/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to My Unschooling Articles">My Unschooling Articles</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> July 17th, 2007 at 4:29 am (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/unschooling-life/" title="View all posts in Unschooling Life" rel="category tag">Unschooling Life</a>, <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/the-magazine/" title="View all posts in The Magazine" rel="category tag">The Magazine</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <p>I’ve finally uploaded the <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/SRH.html">articles I’ve written for <em>Live Free Learn Free</em></a>. </p> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/07/17/my-unschooling-articles/#respond" title="Comment on My Unschooling Articles">Comments</a> </p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-266"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/07/16/unschooling-a-yard-sale/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to Unschooling a Yard Sale">Unschooling a Yard Sale</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> July 16th, 2007 at 5:21 am (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/unschooling-life/" title="View all posts in Unschooling Life" rel="category tag">Unschooling Life</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <p>We spend a lot of time combing through thrift shops and yard sales, looking for whatever might catch our interest that day. It’s a favorite family pastime. Well, after so many years of collecting cool stuff, we’ve decided it’s time to pare down a bit. So, we wandered through each room of the house searching for things that no longer engage us like they once did. And what a pile we found!</p> <p>So, we decided to have our own yard sale. We borrowed folding tables, painted signs, got change from the bank, posted ads on local homeschooling lists and Craigslist, and readied ourselves for the certain onslaught of customers who would doubtless fill up our tiny street and crowd our front lawn.<br /> And then, the rain came.</p> <p>Not that this is surprising, really. I’m certain that Murphy must have penned his famous law after setting up his own yard sale.</p> <p>So, we packed it all up and headed inside. Now, we have a pile of ultra-cool junk sitting in the living room - books on ancient history, dinosaurs, feminism, King Arthur, computer software, you name it; musical instruments; board games; funky toys, computer games…. The list goes on and on.</p> <p>In my opinion, unschoolers have the coolest yard sales. They accumulate so much interesting stuff, and they want their things to find a good home. They want them to be used and loved. And, they’ll probably strike up a conversation with you about whatever item has found its way into your arms: “Oh, if you’re like Scrabble, you might really enjoy Quiddler. It’s such a fun game! I’ve got a deck in the house - let me show you….”</p> <p>This is why I started the <a target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/UnschoolingResources/">Unschooling Resources</a> group. There’s so much cool stuff floating around out there. This group brings unschoolers together to talk about the interesting things they’ve found along the way. Eventually, some of the things we love today may find their way to the yard sale pile, and it will be someone else’s turn to discover them. And that’s as it should be.</p> <p>So, we’ll have our yard sale next weekend. No biggie. I can’t wait, though, to see who discovers those amazing <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Annos-Math-Games-Mitsumasa-Anno/dp/0698116712/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-2931108-7830837?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184581031&sr=8-1">Anno’s Math Games</a> books. </p> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/07/16/unschooling-a-yard-sale/#respond" title="Comment on Unschooling a Yard Sale">Comments</a> </p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-263"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/06/26/the-gods-of-unschooling-were-smiling/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to The Gods of Unschooling Were Smiling….">The Gods of Unschooling Were Smiling….</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> June 26th, 2007 at 5:22 pm (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/unschooling-life/" title="View all posts in Unschooling Life" rel="category tag">Unschooling Life</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <p>Yesterday at Goodwill, I stumbled upon a 1981 edition of <em>Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged </em>for $13. 2,662 pages of word fun. I grabbed it up and lugged it through the store with me, happy as a clam. One of these days, we’ll find a good Oxford English unabridged dictionary set, but until then, this will fit the bill nicely. It’s certainly more enjoyable than our smaller dictionaries (<em>The Random House College Dictionary</em> and <em>Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary</em>).</p> <p>Anyway, the book now has a new home on top of one of the bedroom dressers. Kenzie and I have been looking up word meanings and origins all day, calling each other in to read the interesting ones. Now, if I could just stumble upon a reference stand…. Something like this would do nicely….</p> <p><img id="image262" alt="Reference_Stand.jpg" src="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/Reference_Stand.jpg" /> </p> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/06/26/the-gods-of-unschooling-were-smiling/#respond" title="Comment on The Gods of Unschooling Were Smiling....">Comments</a> </p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-260"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/06/20/emailing-live-free-learn-free/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to Emailing Live Free Learn Free">Emailing Live Free Learn Free</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> June 20th, 2007 at 3:58 pm (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/unschooling-life/" title="View all posts in Unschooling Life" rel="category tag">Unschooling Life</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <p>Apparently, our email addresses have been crawled and disseminated. We have been receiving literally thousands of pieces of junk mail every day for the last several months. While I’ve been trying my best to weed out the real mail from the scams, I know I’m missing messages here and there.</p> <p>Sigh….</p> <p>Anyway, if you’re having trouble reaching us, try using my old standby account. folkypoet (-at-) aol (-dot-) com. </p> </div> <p class="postmeta"> <a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/06/20/emailing-live-free-learn-free/#respond" title="Comment on Emailing Live Free Learn Free">Comments</a> </p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-259"> <h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/2007/06/20/barter-bee/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to Barter Bee">Barter Bee</a></h2> <p class="postdate"> June 20th, 2007 at 2:54 pm (<a href="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/category/unschooling-life/" title="View all posts in Unschooling Life" rel="category tag">Unschooling Life</a>) </p> <div class="postentry"> <p align="center"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.barterbee.com" /></p> <div style="text-align: center"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.barterbee.com"><img id="image258" alt="Barter Bee.jpg" src="http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/Barter%20Bee.thumbnail.jpg" /></a></div> <p>Though our musical tastes are a little too alternative, and we don’t have a large enough stockpile of dvds and games to try this out for ourselves, I’ve heard wonderful things about Barter Bee. You can trade in dvds, video games and cds for points and then spend those points on new-to-you media. Shipping is free. 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