Why we banned Legos

http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/21_02/lego212.shtml

Showed up on reddit and my knee jerk reaction was WTF! On further reading, as is typical of reddit, the headline is there to provoke reaction. The article was an insightful discourse on power structures as observed by teachers of a grade school age after school program. These are the teachers we need more of, not dispensers of rote.

Free Track

There have been recent hacks posted for the Wii and PS3 that let you do head tracking for immersive VR. Here's some open source PC software to do the same thing using some LEDs glued to a hat. This would also be cool for a window manager to let you see depth of the windows to look behind things.


http://www.free-track.net/english/

In the video, to the right is that mounted LED view from the webcam.