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A History Of Toys As Teaching Machines, This Escalator Is Functioning Perfectly, Yes, These Are As Comfortable As They Look, The Most Common First And Last Names Of New York City Taxi Drivers, Visualized, Disinformation Of Charlie Hebdo And An Analysis Of The Fake BBC Website, How To Be A Total Dick And Steal Pizza Without Anyone Noticing The Daily Digg Wednesday, January 14, 2015 AI: A FUTURE OF TOYS AS LEARNING MACHINES A History Of Toys As Teaching Machines hackeducation.com The Speak & Spell — one of the most iconic toys of the 1980s — is actually a teaching machine. By that, I don't mean simply that it's an electronic, educational device. The Speak & Spell is a teaching machine specifically in the tradition of B. F. Skinner, reflecting some of both Skinner's design principles and his theories of learning. THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY This Escalator Is Functioning Perfectly digg.com If its function is to get loud, drunk soccer fans away from everyone else, it's doing it as well as could be expected. PANTS WE DIGG SPONSORED Yes, These Are As Comfortable As They Look meundies.com For proper lounging, you're gonna need some lounge pants. Lucky for you we've got just the pair. A LOT OF WAYS TO SPELL ONE NAME The Most Common First And Last Names Of New York City Taxi Drivers, Visualized vizual-statistix.tumblr.com Using a list of the 52,131 active medallion taxi drivers in New York City, I've graphed the frequencies of the 20 most common first and last names. WARNING: JARGON AHEAD Disinformation Of Charlie Hebdo And An Analysis Of The Fake BBC Website labs.opendns.com While we can't say definitively what the motives are of the operators are, it is apparent that they are untrustworthy and potentially nefarious. The predictive classification that we used to identify and flag the site is showing the attack is very similar to former incidents that malicious actors have used in the past like the Boston Marathon malware incidents. This post highlights the OpenDNS Security Labs analysis of the campaign and its indicators. WHY AM I STILL HUNGRY? How To Be A Total Dick And Steal Pizza Without Anyone Noticing digg.com Don't do this. Pizza is an inalienable right — read the constitution, people. Get more stories on Digg.com → REPS CAN'T TENNESSEE THE FACTS State troopers watch as abortion rights protesters stand in the Capitol as lawmakers convened the 109th General Assembly, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, in Nashville, Tenn. Republican Rep. Beth Harwell of Nashville and Sen. Ron Ramsey of Blountville were re-elected as speakers of the House and Senate, while about 60 protesters outside the chambers shouted into a bullhorn, banged drums and chanted. Credit: AP Photo/Mark Humphrey Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014