Category Archives: Culture

Living World – How Did LEGO Become More About Limits Than Possibilities?

It’s a lit­tle depress­ing when I pick up a Lego kit and have to turn it down because of this issue.

TED.com – Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)

Clay Shirky deliv­ers a clear and cogent his­tory and expla­na­tion of PIPA/SOPA, walk­ing through through both the intent and what the ram­i­fi­ca­tions of the bill and how it changes the entire legal sys­tem under which web­sites operate.

Electronic Frontier Foundation – The Internet at its Best

EFF high­lights some of the largest sites that par­tic­i­pated in the SOPA/PIPA blackout.

O’Reilly Radar – The President’s challenge

The idea that we’ll be able to go back in time and make it harder for peo­ple to get dig­i­tal information/media/anything is just wrong.

ArsTechnica – Wikipedia to join reddit in SOPA blackout Wednesday

I’ll also be post­ing a mes­sage to protest and inform peo­ple about PIPA and SOPA, though I imag­ine Wikipedia will have a much larger influence.

kickingbear – Learn to X

There’s a prob­lem amongst pro­gram­mers it’s the clas­sic when you have a ham­mer every­thing looks like a nail. Programming/Coding is our ham­mer, per­haps a really advanced ham­mer but still just a hammer.

The Year of C.E.O. Failures Explained — NYTimes.com

How­ever, busi­ness schools seem to cre­ate an envi­ron­ment that rewards not mak­ing happy cus­tomers, not doing the eth­i­cal thing, not doing the thing that pro­tects the envi­ron­ment down the road.