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I think it’s the only way me and a few of my old friends in high school survived auto shop class.
Author Archives: Karl
Inside Al-Qaeda?s Hard Drive
An eye opening piece in The Atlantic.
Iran threatens us and the news ignores it
Where is the press? Where is the press?!? There is practically no mention of this in the news.
NYTimes: Iran Says It May Pre-empt Attack Against Its Nuclear Facilities.
Brain-Busting Job = Alzheimer’s Protection
WebMD: Daily Mental Challenges Keep Brain in Tip-Top Shape. Use it or lose it.
EFF wins one for freedom and common sense
P2P software developers are not to be held liable for copyright infringement (Boing Boing).
The Income Gap
Are there really Two Americas?
One of my closest friends has been stuck on the lower rungs of employment for years now. He’s a hard worker, pays his bills, and struggles everyday to get by. He’s moving to Florida for a part time job with a big company hoping that that it’s his ticket to stability.
I was once right there with him and someday I plan on sharing the rest of my story. The thing about it is that it occurred years ago, in a world that seems as different from now as day is from night.
slacktivist comments on an article by Leigh Strope for the Associated Press where she reports on the growing gap.
Could someone from my background do what I did today? Does that kind of opportunity still exist?
How not to buy happiness
Simply having more stuff than the next guy doesn’t do it. It’s what we do with it. Or more accurately, what we get from it. Reading Robert H. Frank’s report in MIT Press underscores just how precious our time is and how we spend it.
Less Jobs
Slashdot: Tech Employment Drops Sharply In 2004.
Proxac in Britain’s Drinking Water
No it’s true! Really! Read about it at Yahoo!. And yes, this is an old article, but I’m catching up here…
Three Internet Companies, Three Stories
LA Weekly: Do You IMDB?. IMDB continues to be the number one site I go to for movie knowledge. They groked hypertext early on and the way they designed their site, tieing metadata between movies together with hyperlinks, was a major example for others to follow.
SFGate: CRAIGSLIST On the record: Craig Newmark. Most of you know that craigslist has recently been invested in by eBay, but for those that don’t, this is a good read.
Salon: Blogging grows up: The story of Mena and Ben Trott’s Movable Type, and Six Apart, the company they founded around it. A must read for content tool developers.