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Old Portable TV — More Old Tech Your Kids Can Mock
Remember when it was cool to have something like this? A portable TV?
DaddyDeal – Free Voucher to Purchase Select eBooks from the Amazon Kindle Store for $1
Quick and free DaddyDeal from Amazon.
Stay with us here.
Here’s how it works (we think). You click the link below. You “buy” a free voucher. Said free voucher will provide you with a code allowing you to purchase an eBook — not ANY eBook, one from a list — via the Amazon Kindle Store for $1.
It probably sounds more complicated than it is. More details are available on Amazon.com. Click the link. Get the deal. Enjoy.
Free Voucher to Purchase Select eBooks from the Amazon Kindle Store for $1 – Amazon Deals
DaddyDeal: Free Peekaboo Presents iPad App Today Only (December 16)
Another app DaddyDeal for you from Night & Day Studios. This time you can download Peekaboo Presents for the iPad for free today only, December 16, 2012.
The app normally sells for $1.99. So hurry up and get it now while it’s free! Because free is good. Everybody likes free. Remember that it’s only free today, December 16, 2012. Otherwise it costs money. In case we didn’t already make that clear.
Get Peekaboo Presents on the iTunes App Store.
Ethan Hauser’s Reflections On Holiday Family Time
This was my favorite line:
There are, I imagine, legions of people for whom the holidays are bliss. Gracious sons and daughters, proud grandparents, unwounded mothers and aunts and cousins. Selfishly and bitterly, and no doubt wrongly, I believe there are two elements common to such people: there are Christmas trees in their homes, and no one in their families is a practicing psychotherapist.
via The Total Agony of Family Time – NYTimes.com.
DaddyDeal: Free Tom and Jerry iPad App Today Only (December 14)
Nice DaddyDeal for you – Night & Day Studios is offering their iPad app Tom and Jerry: Stickers With Sounds for free today only, December 14, 2012.
The app normally sells for $4.99. So hurry up and get it now while it’s free! Because free is good. Everybody likes free. Remember that it’s only free today, December 14, 2012. Otherwise it costs money. In case we didn’t already make that clear.
Get Tom and Jerry: Stickers With Sounds on the iTunes App Store.
New Man of Steel Trailer
Here you go. The new Man of Steel trailer. Aka The New Superman Movie.
There’s a lot of parenty stuff I could say about it. I will one of these days. For now, some thoughts.
Topless Robot’s Chris Cummins asks some good general questions: “Do you want an angsty bearded Superman? At some point in the film will he throw on Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures and sulk? Will Lois Lane be moonlighting at Hot Topic in the movie?”
I had to look up the Joy Division reference. Here’s the album via YouTube. Read more »
The Best Article About Homework I’ve Ever Read
The best article about homework that I’ve ever read, and probably the best one ever written, is in the December 17, 2012 issue of The New Yorker, written by Louis Menand.
It begins:
Here is something you probably didn’t know about France: its President has the power to abolish homework.
Nice, right?
And lest you think that le President de la France is doing this to appease the parents who proclaim homework to be history’s greatest education monster:
[French President] M. Hollande, however, is not a progressive educator. He is a socialist. His reason for exercising his powers in this area is to address an inequity. He thinks that homework gives children whose parents are able to help them with it—more educated and affluent parents, presumably—an advantage over children whose parents are not. The President wants to give everyone an equal chance.
Sounds reasonable. If nothing else it’s a different perspective on the so-called homework wars.
As with most education issues, it’s not that simple. Read the whole article, it’s worth it.
Louis Menand: The End of Homework? : The New Yorker
