I’m going to be honest: school is really, really boring. I hate coming here.

Ouch.

Great ideas here, and I love the infographic from Sean Kearney.

I absolutely love Instapaper on my iPhone and cannot wait for the iPad version!

Good overview of reactions. Nice to see some are still engaged in constructive discourse instead of name-calling.

Nearly 40% of Blackberry users continue to prefer Apple's iPhone as their next smartphone purchase

I knew it.

Initiative is very difficult to teach to 28 students in a quiet classroom. It's difficult to brag about in a school board meeting. And it's a huge pain in the neck to do reliably.

Schools like teaching compliance. They're pretty good at it.

Compliance has become such the norm that it makes initiative even harder to "teach." Same with creativity, innovation, and problem-solving.

I want one of these in my school...

8. Looking up information while a discussion/argument is still in progress - So what are laptops and mobile phones for, if not to resolve disputes or questions wherever you happen to be? Why would anyone get annoyed when you pull out your iPhone in the middle of a discussion about, say, a news story, and a minute later break back into the conversation with the details of the story that everyone else had forgotten? Yeah, it beats me, too, but my wife insists this belongs on the list.

Guilty.

What’s not “Real Food?” Anything that starts, ends or pit-stops through a lab for alteration is not “Real.” It’s pretty simple. These include items that have to tell you what they are by their name “Cheese Food,” for example, or “Blue Lake #5.” Or items that have hyphenated or otherwise connected, confusing or unintelligible descriptions: “high-fructose corn syrup” (despite the commercials where Geek gets Girl, this product isn’t a “Real Food” it’s “Real Science”), “texturized vegetable protein,” (vegetable protein is vegetable protein, it doesn’t need to have any further texture created), or partially hydrogenated oil (until you can show me how nature ‘partially’ hydrogenates anything, skip this one).

I've been paying a lot more attention to my nutrition lately and one theme that I see recurring (and that should be obvious, but is not always easy advice to follow) is to eat food that is Real.