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You Can’t Judge a Book by its Cover
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That phrase was a mantra to me growing up. It was trumpeted by every third children’s book, my school’s curriculum, and even a few He-man and GI Joe PSAs. I understand now that it was an subtle attempt by all these institutions to instill ideas of racial and sexual ( Read more... ) -
Facebook and the Tragedy of Free Software
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The technology community is making much ado about the personal information land-grab that Facebook orchestrated recently. Basically, information that was formerly protected by your account’s privacy settings was now linked to public pages. This would make it easier for ( Read more... ) -
Today We Are Rails Developers! Pt. 2: Choosing Your Project
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So you’ve got joined a ruby club, installed the software, signed up for github and Heroku, and finished some tutorials. Where do you go from there, Rails Developer? It is now time for you to choose a project to work on.
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The Tragedy of Vicky Harrison
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When people hear the story of Vicky Harrison, they are quick to comfort themselves with all kinds of qualifiers. They leave comments like, she left school, she had mental issues that weren’t reported on or she took the easy way out. None of them seem to address why this ( Read more... ) -
Weekend Reading May 1st, 2010
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The Famous Alamo Drafthouse Movie Theatre announced its plans to do away with line-ups.
Gay Visitation Order shows how Obama brings big change with small actions
10 things the internet has ruined or killed and 5 things it hasn’t
A sarcastic essay on How to Write about ( Read more... )
