MSNBC has a great article article on how free marketeers are reclaiming Europe from a century of silly-sausage socialism. 

Baby-raising lessons for teenagers? Ah, because academic pursuits aren't as extinct as they should be, so let's spend yet more time on social engineering. Once upon a time, schools were actually for learning academic things, but  

The Observer has an excellent article on parents desperately trying to mould their children in to high-achieving clones of themselves. There are reactions on their blog. I've never been the subject of this kind of thing, but I saw more than my fair share of it while at school. My big "this is bullshit" moment came when the prissy bitch of the class cried on not getting an A* at GCSE, despite the fact that the number of employers who actually care about your GCSE grades are about the same proportion of the "employosphere" as people with eleven fingers are in the general population. 

Kent Newsome has a response to the anti-intellectualism blog post I linked to the other day. 

I've been meaning to ask Jim Moore - wouldn't OPMLworkstation be the most perfect thing to make in to a mobile application? 

Bloglines errors 

Bloglines is being extremely frustrating. Every time I load a feed, it feels like there's a 50-50 chance of the content actually appearing. Sometimes it only shows new posts. Sometimes it only shows old posts. Sometimes it shows nothing at all.

It's really buggy, which is annoying as Bloglines has one thing which few of the other RSS aggregators has - a mobile version.

I've had to unsubscribe from everything and am in the process of re-importing my OPML. Come on. These guys are pros. There shouldn't be these problems.

It all seems to be updating now. It's telling me that I've got 28,178 headlines unread. Perhaps Dave was right about the whole River of News thing.

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