Author: jedreynolds
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Can We Teach Independence and Fear Simultaneously?
Good post. Bruce Schneier probably has something similar to say on a lot of these topics. Teaching our kids to be afraid of everything definitely has consequences. A lot of things we casually do – like eating while driving, are far more likely to have severe consequences than letting them walk to school. Post on…
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Carmageddon: Why cower, bite your nails and stay home?
#carmageddon as a hash-tag seems so strangely appropriate for something as mundane as a freeway closure. It doesn’t deserve any more hype than what Twitter could provide, the subject really exposes society’s relationship to inconvenience — something hardly worth celebrating to begin with. Carmageddon challenge[slate] Carmageddon coverage [slate] I think it’s great to see these…
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Eccentricity + Random Chance = Eccendipity?
Cmdln has a recent monolog up that will delight the philospher in you, exploring the notion of serendipty, and his compliment to it–the exploration of those ideas perpendicular to your interests, or even opposite them to find those intersections of wisdom or delight that help us relate to those parties normally “across the isle.”
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You want safe walking and biking routes?
Our elected congresscritters think we don’t want safe walking and biking options. http://www.peoplepoweredmovement.org/site/index.php/site/blog/3543/
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This is a great summary of the economic benefits to bicycling.
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We had a good ride on Burke Gilman (but I didn’t nap)
And Liam is getting used to his new bike, too.
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Typical Industrialist Marginalization
Are Apple Stores, like WallMart, just Dickensian work-houses? Really tough to sell an upscale product when your floor staff openly resent their employer. http://www.alternet.org/economy/151465/mac_stores_tell_workers%2C_instead_of_giving_you_health_care%2C_working_for_apple_%27should_be_looked_at_as_an_experience%27/
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TSA cagey on cancer risk?
Interesting. One wonders what the exposure rate for standing in line for those back-scatter and the luggage x-ray things are. Worth noting that the safey regulations on those things are prolly totally vain–have you ever seen how tightly cramped the security areas get? http://www.infowars.com/cancer-surges-in-body-scanner-operators-tsa-launches-cover-up/ (I saw this link via bear454)
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Would girl marketed video games bolster women in tech by 2034?
We need to get girls interested in computing by first grade. By fifth grade, it’s game over. Computing has an image crisis.
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