Archive for February, 2002

Don’t Believe the Hype: Carriers Hide Behind Spam to Protect their “Corporate Values” From Your Speech

Remember how we filed a petition to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) asking them to make sure that carriers are nondiscriminatory when it comes to text messages? While we haven’t posted about it much lately, work on the issue has been chugging quietly along behind the scenes. Today, all of the parties of the [...]

The sin of teaching trigonometry…

Today I got busy teaching my oldest kids all about trigonometry. You know, all that stuff about Sine and Cosine and the hypotenuse, a word that we learn how to spell first
Typical KS3 and GCSE books (i.e. for UK maths syllabus) dive straight into all those stuffy formula about SOH, CAH, TOA, if [...]