Barack Obama, in a move I agree with, has called Xboxes and iPads “a distraction.” He’s right. We The People like to think that those are sources of information, probably great learning! Really, they’re toys. Games. Not part of reality; a distraction from it. With the rise of social behavior on the internet, it has [...]
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Interesting Times magazine
Not to geek out too much, but I’m published in the new Interesting Times magazine. This PDF-based free magazine has a full magazine-style layout, but keeps the spirit of 1980s text files: exploratory like science fiction, irreverent like insurrection, and curious like a child. If you need a good cross-section between hacking culture, smarmy urban [...]
Net neutrality: not what you think it means
As part of the progressive dumbing down of our society, we live by political “issues.” These are clever symbols for problems we need to solve. They are usually framed by whoever comes up with them first. This framing puts a spin on them so that it’s hard to disagree. When one side calls itself “pro-life,” [...]
How to be useless – tech support version
People on forums do not understand that Google prioritizes their replies to questions because users type questions into search engines looking for others having the same issue. So it is with the topic Firefox takes 20 seconds to open up after startup. In this case, a user is describing what happens when Windows doesn’t cache [...]
