The Carnival of Homeschooling, only five weeks old, has quickly become one of our favorite blog carnivals. Number five in the series is hosted by Palm Tree Pundit, and it even includes a Gleeson post, “Chagrin and the Chocolate Factory,” my rambling account of our theobromic field trip. Don’t miss it!

I asked my Multimedia students to find good examples of multimedia websites. One of them found “Bob’s Cube,” in which you get to fiddle with the stuff in Bob’s cubicle while Bob is away. Creative and entertaining.

Anatoly Karpov predicts the game of chess will die in four years:

I think everybody connected with chess understands that if we allow chess to continue for another four years in its presented terrible state, it will simply disappear from the face of the earth.

(En passant: Pejman.)

The new site at googlecensorship.blogspot.com is a blog with just one post. And that one post is just three sentences long.

Don’t be evil!
We don’t want Google to censor search engine results. Not in China and nowhere else in the world.

Okay, that’s really only two sentences, and one sentence fragment. The thing is, it’s getting lots and lots of comments (239 as of this writing), many of which are worth reading.

In my post yesterday, I made mention of “a big lunch involving pot roast and macaroni.” Gina says it was delicious, and has asked me for the recipe, which I would be happy to provide.

Except, there is no recipe. I’ve been making this meal for years, but never exactly the same way twice. I use whatever beef is on sale, and some kind of pasta, or egg noodles, and add whatever I feel like adding. We’ve always called it “that thing with beef and noodles.” It’s a good meal for a Thursday supper, so we can load up on beefy goodness before abstaining from meat on Friday, as is our habit. By Saturday, we are hungry again, and ready to devour the leftovers as a lunch or snack.

For Gina, I will attempt to reproduce the recipe for “Gleeson Goulash,” in the form it took yesterday. I’m sorry if some of the amounts are a bit vague, but I sort of eyeball it as I go, and don’t take measurements.

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Doug Anglin, a student in Massachusetts, is suing his high school for discriminating against boys. (Glenn predicts it’s the start of a trend.)