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Wow - I've been out of the web design pipeline for a bit, and somehow missed this awesome resource! Podcasts, videos, all with amazing leaders of the field. It's like going to An Event Apart, but free!
in list: Web Standards and Semantics
This makes sense, and I do this. I think I'll turn off email and chat, close Facebook... wait... then what will I do on the computer? :)
in list: Science and Nature
"...our inability and refusal to contend with the underlying biases of the programs and networks we all use is less a threat to our military or economic superiority than to our experience and autonomy as people."
A kind of weird article - overstates the case by quite a bit, I'd say, but still makes a valid point about learning programming. Also explains why most hackers seem to come from Russia - ha.
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Add Sticky NoteDigital tools are not like rakes, steam engines, or even automobiles that we can drive with little understanding of how they work.
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Maggie Wolfe Riley on 2010-10-03Not sure I agree with this. Tools are tools. We need to know how to use them safely, though, whether it is a car or the internet.
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Add Sticky NoteThese tools are not mere extensions of the will of some individual or group, but entities that have the ability to think and operate other components in the neural network--namely, us.
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Maggie Wolfe Riley on 2010-10-03
Wait - are you saying Skynet is about to attain self-awareness!?? OMG, HEAD FOR THE UNDERGROUND LAIRS!
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Interesting article about the future of computers - good food for thought.
This is right on - sure, changing your lightbulbs is good, but creating better, more competitive choices for things that will make a huge difference is better!
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I'm sick of pretending like we can solve the energy crisis by asking people to make decisions that are counter to their interest.
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If you tell someone "Save the planet, change your light bulb" you'll be lucky to get a 20% action rate. But if you say "save $200 per year, change your light bulbs" you're suddenly on the right side of every argument.
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I need this to clear my credential before 2010 (unless I can get it waived)
Wouldn't it be great if you could become invisible whenever you wanted? Harry Potter can do it, and so could certain groups of futuristic creatures on "Star Trek."
Wow - first teleportation, now invisibility/cloaking, next force fields... did I wander into a scifi movie set?
in list: Science and Nature
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