With a whole new cast.

If we needed more proof:

Civilization Watch – June 26, 2005 – Brain Training – The Ornery American: “The evidence was overwhelming: Games were literally making people perceive the world more clearly.”

Also

the perceptual differences between gamers and nongamers were “far more pronounced than the differences between hearing and deaf individuals.”

Failed TV shows don’t get made into major motion pictures–unless…: I’m looking forward to this one.

Update: NerdMom’s score, almost as nerdy!

Why Everyone Should Learn to Program

The answer consists of two parts. First, it is indeed true that traditional forms of programming are useful for just a few people. But, programming as we the authors understand it is useful for everyone: the administrative secretary who uses spreadsheets as well as the high-tech programmer. In other words, we have a broader notion of programming in mind than the traditional one. We explain our notion in a moment. Second, we teach our idea of programming with a technology that is based on the principle of minimal intrusion. Hence our notion of programming teaches problem-analysis and problem-solving skills without imposing the overhead of traditional programming notations and tools.

from How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Computing and Programming

Add Dancing With The Stars to the list of shows my wife and children make me watch.

I cut my own hair, and my son’s hair. Luckily I do it in the privacy of my own home. Iowa firemen have been ordered to stop barbering on duty because their “taking away a livelihood from professionals who are trying to make a living”. (From The Corner)

How did they do it? By striking down a law banning private medical insurance. New York Times

Kitchen Table Math is a blog/wiki about doing math with your children.

One thing that caught my eye was a Russian textbook example: “Two cars leave simultaneously at 9 a.m. heading toward one another from different cities that are 210 km apart. The average speed of one car is 50 km/h while the other car averages 70 km/h. Come up with an appropriate question and answer it.”

How many more must die before Kofi quits?:

“If blue-helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run. Or else get weapons. Your lives are worth so much less than theirs.” – Dr Andrew Thomson

The article is written by former UN human rights lawyer Kenneth Cain, who co-authored Emergency Sex (and Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone with the quoted Dr. Thomson.