Category — General

SLurl: Location-Based Linking in Second Life:

Mike Ferner: Has This Country Gone Completely Insane? :
And just for the record? I’m not paying the fine. I’ll see Adkins and Ousley and Dubya’s Director of the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, if he wants to show up, in United States District Court on the appointed date. And if there’s a Chicago area attorney who’d like to take the case, I’d really like to sue them — from Dubya on down. I have to believe that this whole country has not yet gone insane, just the government. This kind of behavior can’t be tolerated. It must be challenged.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

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see that word ‘liberty’ it includes the liberty of speech and conscience.

Freedom to Farm (or not):
These homes in El Campo, Tex., stand on land once used to grow rice. Because of that, their back yards qualify for direct payments under federal agricultural programs as long as the owner does not develop the acreage. (By James M. Thresher — The Washington Post).
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the land of the free….

Chinese, English speakers vary at math:
But native English speakers also showed activity in a language processing area of the brain, while native Chinese speakers used a brain region involved in the processing of visual information, according to the report in Tuesday’s issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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this lends something to the sapir-worf hypothesis…..

Nashuatelegraph.com: Man charged after videotaping police
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NASHUA – A city man is charged with violating state wiretap laws by recording a detective on his home security camera, while the detective was investigating the man’s sons.Michael Gannon, 49, of 26 Morgan St., was arrested Tuesday night, after he brought a video to the police station to try to file a complaint against Detective Andrew Karlis, according to Gannon’s wife, Janet Gannon, and police reports filed in Nashua District Court.
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this has better be canceled at the court level…

Know your rights when you’ve been pulled over:
The Flex Your Rights Foundation has posted a 45-minute video on Google designed to help you understand your rights next time a cop pulls you over.

We’ve touched on the issue of how to handle police car searches once or twice before, but this video, apart from being fairly dorky, should help you get an idea of your rights on the road. Thanks Jason! — Adam Pash
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be aware of your rights…. so you can reminisce when they are taken away…

The Blogging Exam:
“…..now that we have podcasting and blogging anyone can do it. You don’t need to be some rich person in New York, you can produce from your own home. It has also changed how we can learn in today’s society.”

Amen. Amen.

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actually no… it hasn’t changed the way we learn… it has changed the tools through which we learn. humans learn… that is the fact of our lives. the ways we learn are plural and complicated by our modes of existence. I do not think that mediating learning changes learning though… It just changes your relationship to what is learned.

Applications/iStache:
iStache is, well, an application to draw mustaches on photos. Bloody brilliant when coupled with Photo Booth…
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omg! this is all we need. automating defacement is the ultimate coin.

Microsoft embraces pain:

User-centered design is all about empathizing with your users. When your software causes frustration and pain, it is important that this is fed back to the design team in order to create a virtuous cycle.

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alex posted a video that is somewhat humorous…. and probably true to the extent in at least one possible universe.