May 14, 2008
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An OLPC pre-mortem? Hope not.
Sic Transit Gloria Laptopi is a long and wrenching piece about the OLPC project by Ivan Krstic. Just one man’s take, but Ivan’s been a strong advocate for the OLPC’s highest purposes. Performer too. Some pushback from Taran Rampersad. Also this from Tom Hoffman. (And privately from some people.) For what it’s worth, I’ve loved… Continue reading
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What’s up at IIW?
Not seeing large amounts yet on Technorati or Google Blogsearch. One Flickr shot so far, tagged iiw2008. Unfortunately, iiw tags also pertain to other stuff. Continue reading
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Your national paranoia state at work
Andy Carvin & NPR crew get kicked out of a public place for taking pictures with a weird (but way cool) camera. Continue reading
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Ex-parrot walking
Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, which has recently resorted to what Joe Klein calls a “paste-on populism”, has been reduced, even with her West Virginia victory, to a Monty Python sketch. Continue reading
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Remembranes
If you’re busy thinking business is war, you may miss the fact that you still haven’t been killed on the job. That’s one line from Rebuilding the software industry, one word at a time, written more than seven years ago for Kuro5hin, which is still, commendably, around. Just ran across it again now. Hadn’t read… Continue reading
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Rail to Trail to Blog
Very nice to discover, via many excellent comments on a Flikr fotoset, that the Minuteman Bikeway has a blog. Here’s the beginning. Good story. Continue reading