Every Friday I point you towards some recommended reading around the blogosphere:
1. Nothing quite screams generation gap when it comes to Osama Bin Laden’s death as much as this little screen shot over on Boing Boing.
2. I think we all know where I stand on the amazingly talented, barefooted piano-playing comedian Tim Minchin. Here’s his latest endeavor: an animated movie of his 9-minute beat poem, Storm. LOVE him.
3. Looking for a great book to read or to give as a gift? The Guardian asked a bunch of British authors which books they most enjoyed getting/giving as a gift. Some really great ideas in here.
4. Here’s a clever idea for a blog: one man’s journey to tour Europe guided only by a 1963 copy of Arthur Frommer’s Europe on Five Dollars a Day. I give you Europe on Five Bad Ideas A Day.
5. Before you do anything else, please, please just have a look at Mapping Stereotypes. It made my day. (Hat tip: Very Short List)
6. And to end on a sad – but deeply moving – note, here’s Derek Miller of Penmachine.com’s last blog post, written shortly before he died of cancer, and published upon his death. Amazing. (Hat Tip: Ben Casnocha)
May 6, 2011, 5:53 pm
Wow on the Boing Boing reference to those who asked “Who is Osama Bin Laden?” – Even if they are teenagers. My sons are teens, and they are certainly aware. Then again, best I recall they were watching television in elementary school, when the attacks occurred.
What aren’t we talking about in our schools if so many kids were unaware?
May 6, 2011, 9:27 pm
Loved the Minchin animated poem. Can’t wait to share with my family. And moved to tears by that “Last Post” by Derek Miller.
May 7, 2011, 12:17 pm
@naomi-I got that link from Dan!! Yes the Miller thing killed me. @biglittlewolf-aren’t they!??! I know when my kids were younger and it was closer to the actual event, people tried to keep 9/11 hush hush. But I too was surprised that teens wouldn’t know about it. Then again, my kids haven’t attended *real* school in the states.
May 9, 2011, 8:13 pm
Hilarious that you got the link from Dan! When he came home from work Friday, I was showing it to the kids, and he said, “Oh yeah, I posted that to facebook a couple of weeks ago.” How had I missed it? Funny — and a bit pathetic, really — how the Internet and a friend thousands of miles away help the two of us stay connected to each other! :-)
May 7, 2011, 1:17 pm
Glad to see the Friday links have returned!
I’m going to hope the Bin Laden searches weren’t from DC or NY. I think he’s pretty well engraved on anybodies mind who was alive at the time.
May 10, 2011, 10:50 am
@naomi-yes I always chuckle when couples mediate their relationship via FB or Twitter or a blog. I just had two (married) friends disagree about the appropriateness of a certain film for kids on my FB wall. Very funny, all this cyber stuff…