Tales Of Epoch: Mighty Mourinho
My good pal Paddington’s Shadow gives a great summary of the rise and rise of Jose Mourinho.
“Then United gave away a foul in the 89th minute, my eyebrow raised. McCarthy smacked it and then Tim Howard did something that perhaps changed the course of English football for the next three years, he parried the ball when it should have been caught. […] I quickly turned on the television to catch Mourinho hurtling down the Old Trafford touchline, dressed with in black like a thief in the night, running away with a game stolen from Ferguson, he did this with arms wide open as he approached his celebrating players by the corner flag. […] I knew of the name then and after defeating Monaco in the Champions League Final, we all knew who he was.”
Preparing for the World Cup - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Vuvuzelas. These things are really going to piss me off for the next month or so.
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Welles arrives at the premiere of Citizen Kane at New York’s Palace Theater (1941, photo by Peter Stackpole)
On creating popular art:
Nothing has ever been too good for the public.
Nothing has ever been good enough for the public.-Orson Welles, 1942
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Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover | Video on TED.com
It’s wonderful how there is so much interesting content on the internet that we have no idea exists, and will likely never discover.
Take Dan Meyer. A week or two ago, I’d never heard of him. Now, via Roberto Greco’s Delicious stream, in turn via Frank Chimero’s blog, I’m enjoying his blog on teaching mathematics which I would otherwise have been unlikely to find.
In the video, Dan discusses his approach to problem formulation and solution with his students.
On a personal note, having been something of a reluctant maths superstar at school, I’ve recently become interested in re-learning some of my old skills, as well as the practices necessary to teach a subject (one that Dan correctly identifies as a product the market is forced to buy). So I’m hoping the path of discovery mentioned above exposes me to some useful resources.
Another missed opportunity.
“If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore’s Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars.”
The Technium: Predicting the Present, First Five Years of Wired
Nathan Myrhvold, from the September 1995 issue of Wired (via Roberto Greco’s Delicious feed)
