Pardon the copying below, but I just had to include this on the blog since I discovered this stuff this morning. After my post yesterday citing Miller, I thought it my duty. Edward Tufte has a long series of post and comments on the mis-reading and mis-use of George Miller’s article. Here are some excerpts [...]
“Joinery” refers both to the craft of a joiner, someone who makes things by joining together pieces of wood, and to the premises from which the craft is practiced.
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Hazard: The Van Gogh Family Tree
Warning. The following may be an old chestnut to you, but there may be some out there who haven’t seen this before. I don’t want to perpetuate this through the usual broadcast system for these kinds of things, your email. So I am just going to post it here and throw it way.
We are doing [...]
“Enthusiasts Convene To Say No To SQL, Hash Out New DB Breed”: From yesterday’s slashdot discussions
[0]ericatcw writes “The [1]inaugural NoSQL meet-up in San Francisco during last month’s [2]Yahoo! Apache Hadoop Summit had a whiff of revolution about it, like a latter-day techie version of the American Patriots planning the Boston Tea Party. Like the Patriots, who rebelled against Britain’s heavy taxes, NoSQLers came to share how [3]they had overthrown the [...]
“On the Humble Default”: From yesterday’s slashdot discussions
from the ne-pas-décider-c’est-décider dept.
posted by kdawson on Wednesday June 24, @01:48 (Programming)
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/23/2338230
Hugh Pickens sends along Kevin Kelly’s paean to the default. “One of the greatest unappreciated inventions of modern life is the default. ‘Default’ is a technical concept first used in computer science in the 1960s to indicate a preset standard. … Today the [...]
Data and measurement needs of a coalition
“If a judge or commission member knows there are people in the community caring and that show up to the meetings, then they will very likely make totally different decisions.”
Mrs. Camilla Bibbs-Lee was telling us a story to describe the multiple strategies of the Hamilton anti-drug coalition. We were sitting in her office, which doubles [...]
Bernie Sanders’ take on the middle class and Finland
Last night on his Journal, Bill Moyer mentioned the booklet of emails Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders received when he asked his constituents to tell him “what was going on in their lives economically.” He said he received over 600 replies. He has entitled his booklet, Collapse of the Middle Class: Letters from Vermont and America. [...]
Organize 2008
Today I came across a video of Marshall Ganz on YouTube. The organizer and now Harvard professor has held training sessions for Obama volunteers. On the brief video he talked about being enrolled at Harvard and leaving to participate in the Civil Rights movement in the South and later returned to his home in California [...]