Quotes/Open Source Textbooks/Kvetch

I do not intend to tip­toe through life only to arrive safe­ly at death.
–Author Unknown

God runs elec­tro­mag­net­ics by wave the­o­ry on Mon­day, Wednes­day, and Fri­day, and the Dev­il runs them by quan­tum the­o­ry on Tues­day, Thurs­day, and Saturday.
–Sir William Bragg

world­chang­ing men­tioned the Open Source Text­book move­ment today. Take a look:
https://web.archive.org/web/20040805160135/http://www.k12os.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=47
http://open-education.org/
http://wikibooks.org/
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~eproj/available/feit
https://ocw.mit.edu/

South­ern Poly’s “Ban­ner Sys­tem” (the web inter­face for reg­is­tra­tion, records, etc.) has been “upgrad­ed.” Oh, it’s real­ly an improve­ment. Now there are whole sec­tions you just can’t read at all, due to the dark blue text on the dark green back­ground. I know they paid good mon­ey for it, too.