Intertubez Question Time – Educational Books Advice
Question for All – I am putting together a directory or two/three worth of books (epubs, pdfs, txt, etc) for an education local content portal system. If you have heard me talk about Anyfesto this is going to be an educational focused version. I have grabbed most of the text books from CK-12, the DVD setup of PG and a few language learning books. I have also grabbed local content versions and data for Khan Academy and most of the Wikipedia projects.
My question to you …… What would you/a younger you/your kids love to find if you happened on this in the wild/school/library?
Anyfesto project – https://github.com/tomhiggins/anyfesto
#piratebox  #librarybox  #CHIP  #localcontent  +Next Thing Co. +Raspberry Pi #educational  +Personal Telco Project 
Make Placeholder Text Great Again
Look at that text! Would anyone use that? Can you imagine that, the text of your next webpage?! An ‘extremely credible source’ has called my office and told me that Barack Obama’s placeholder text is a fraud. I think the only difference between me and the other placeholder text is that I’m more honest and my words are more beautiful. If Trump Ipsum weren’t my own words, perhaps I’d be dating it.
This placeholder text is gonna be HUGE. This placeholder text is gonna be HUGE.
It’s about making placeholder text great again. That’s what people want, they want placeholder text to be great again. This placeholder text is gonna be HUGE. He’s not a word hero. He’s a word hero because he was captured. I like text that wasn’t captured.
Trump Ipsum generates placeholder text for your next mock-up by taking actual Donald Trump quotes and replacing a few key words to make them about making
SurReal Numbers
Happily the books resides at https://archive.org/details/SurrealNumbers
Donald Knuth coined the term “Surreal Numbers” and wrote the first book about them after lunch with
The EAS Experience
"We create videos showing the Emergency Alert System in both realistic and extreme scenarios"
