One way to encourage curiosity it is by answering their questions... Once you get them used to thinking and looking things up they will start to do this on their own...
Aakash Android Tablet from India for $60 Retail | Curious Cat Gadgets
Posted in gadgets by curiouscat 206 days ago (http://gadgets.curiouscatnetwork.com)
The Indian government has created a very interesting tablet for students in India. The 7 inch display tablet device is runs Android and is remarkably powerful given the price.
Google Art Project - view art from the Hermitage, Van Gogh Museum, the Met, Tate Britain, National Gallery...
Posted in Technology by curious_cat 413 days ago (http://www.googleartproject.com)
View great art without leaving your home. The site lets you navigate the museum (similar to Google street view) and zoom in for very close looks at the the works of art.
Cool URIs don't change.
Posted in Programming by quixperito_cat 355 days ago (http://www.w3.org)
"There are no reasons at all in theory for people to change URIs (or stop maintaining documents), but millions of reasons in practice.
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Pretty much the only good reason for a document to disappear from the Web is that the company which owned the domain name went out of business or can no longer afford to keep the server running. Then why are there so many dangling links in the world? Part of
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Pretty much the only good reason for a document to disappear from the Web is that the company which owned the domain name went out of business or can no longer afford to keep the server running. Then why are there so many dangling links in the world? Part of
URIs Should Remain The Same Over Time
Posted in Programming by quixperito_cat 386 days ago (http://www.w3.org)
The message here is, however, that many, many things can change and your URIs can and should stay the same. They only can if you think about how you design them.
Bacteriophages: The Most Common Life-Like Form on Earth
Posted in Science by curious_cat 387 days ago (http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net)
These small viruses are not clearly a form of life, since when not attached to bacteria they are completely dormant. Bacteriophages attack and eat bacteria and have likely been doing so for over 3 billion years.
Significant - what happens when scientific literacy is missing
Posted in Science by curious_cat 408 days ago (http://xkcd.com)
Funny comic on the problems when scientific literacy is missing and people make nonsensical claims.
What Larry Page really needs to do to return Google to its startup roots | Slacy’s Blog
Posted in Programming by curious_cat 417 days ago (http://slacy.com)
If your company has to have 'No meetings Thursday' then you’re doing it wrong. How about 'No meetings except for Thursday'... Having to launch a simple service in multiple datacenters around the world, and having to deal with near-weekly datacenter maintenance shutdowns is unacceptable for an agile startup. Startups need to focus on product, not process and infrastructure.
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