Salon : Same old worm in the Apple
"So how could Time have been proved wrong so fast? The answer is that, increasingly, in a time of skyrocketing market indicators, company heads have become celebrities, and are marketed as vigorously as any of their products. ... The details hardly matter."
O'Reilly Sample Chapter
<a href = "http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jscook/chapter/ch01.html">JavaScript Application Cookbook : The Client-Side Search Engine</a>
The only thing worse than censorship
is self censorship.
Globe & Mail : UVic refuses to honour Bill Gates
"[Other] senators took issue with a 1998 Microsoft deal that offered professors $200 if they mentioned -- or used -- Microsoft programming tools in a scholarly presentation." One of the arguments that keeps coming up in conversations like this is : Well, how else are we supposed to pay for education? It's called taxation, folks. Of the people, by the people, for the people. The practice may be broken, for sure, but I would argue the premise remains sound.
Katharine Mieszkowski champions Third Voice
and, by the sounds of it, the tyranny of the majority. real audio.
The search engine
at
TAL is up and running, and this morning I was able to find
Sarah Vowell's most excellent piece on making mix tapes and, in Nick Hornsby's words, "the emotional complexity of the ritual." I like mix tapes almost as much as I like radio. real audio (starts 28:42)