Good morning!
Let’s get to it.
I like them French fried potaters.
Ok, quick, what movie! Send your guesses here.
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A Pathetic America
New York Times: “ON Wednesday, America’s detention camp at Guantánamo Bay will have been open for 10 years. For seven of them, I was held there without explanation or charge. During that time my daughters grew up without me. They were toddlers when I was imprisoned, and were never allowed to visit or speak to me by phone. Most of their letters were returned as “undeliverable,†and the few that I received were so thoroughly and thoughtlessly censored that their messages of love and support were lost.”
America has definitely lost her way.
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Movie line of the week answer
Good morning! We have a winner.
Congratulations to Mr. Wesley Minto.
The correct answer was…
Sherlock Holmes
See you next Thursday.
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Movie line of the week
Good morning! Here’s the line, good luck!
Head cocked to the left, partial deafness in ear: first point of attack. Two: throat; paralyze vocal chords, stop scream. Three: got to be a heavy drinker, floating rib to the liver. Four: finally, drag in left leg, fist to patella. Summary prognosis: unconscious in ninety seconds, martial efficacy quarter of an hour at best. Full faculty recovery: unlikely.
Ok, quick, what movie! Send your guesses here.
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No, not in America?
The New Civil Rights Movement:“People die in America because people die in America. And people make poor decisions with respect to their health and their healthcare. And they don’t go to the emergency room or they don’t go to the doctor when they need to,†he said. “And it’s not the fault of the government for not providing some sort of universal benefit.â€
Wow, Rick Santorum, you sir, are out of touch. Come down off the mountain and be with the people for a while. Oh, and while you’re at it bring the President and the rest of Congress.
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Random Links
Lamebook – Funny stuff on Facebook.
Parents Shouldn’t Text – The title says it all.
PayPal, idiots – Heartbreaking article about a stupid PayPal policy.
Eubonicode++ – Funny programming language, by Tom Distler.
Motivational Poster: Programming – Another Tom Distler creation.
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They have a design team?
Inc.: “They’re not the only ones. Unsurprisingly, Facebook (where Cox started her career as a product design lead) has been running its design team in the same way for years. Unlike most software companies where day-to-day and detailed product decisions are made by product managers with business backgrounds, Mark Zuckerberg’s design team is his imperial guard. They work closer to him than any other discipline in the company.”
Based on the giant disaster that is the Facebook UI I thought it was all engineering driven. I’m really surprised to find they have a “design team.”
Maybe this is why they’ve gone on a buying spree. They’re trying to get design talent through acquisition.
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Learn the Basics
Guy English: “But, let’s not kid ourselves, literacy is the new literacy. The ability to read, comprehend, digest and come to rational conclusions — that’s what we need more of. We don’t, as a society, need more people who have the mechanical knowledge to turn RSS feeds into Twitter spam. We don’t need anything more posted to Facebook, we don’t need anything we photograph to appear on Instagram and Flickr. If “scripting†is the new literacy then we’ve failed. We’ve become Mario drowning on a Water Level.”
Guy nails it. As software guys we tend to think it’s all about code and the computer.
We need folks to learn the basics so they can navigate life. We need teachers that can actually teach. We need to stop the madness that is standardized testing. Let schools teach kids, not just prepare them for a test.
Let’s return to apprenticeships. Not every kid wants to be a scientist. Not every kid is going to make it through college. We need people to do what they love and be great at it.
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Visio-Ho-Ho
This image was created by Matt Towers and Chris Roth, I’d say around 1993-94. And, yes, they probably used Paint Brush on Windows 3.1. Painful.
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Microblogging is Weblogging
Reuters [Anthony De Rosa]: “The difference between the two is that microblogs tend to rely heavily on short bursts of information: links, photos, videos and brief messages. Blogger fatigue gave way to sharing smaller, less labor intensive bits of content.”
In the wayback, before the time of Twitter, Tumblr, and Posterous, we had what were referred to as weblogs, or blogs for short (a word I absolutely hate.)
When I started my weblog in 2001 I’d post small, less labor intensive bits of content, like pictures, links, and brief messages. My weblog looked more like my Twitter stream looks today. Go look at the archives, you’ll find many examples.
Anywho, I find all the talk about weblogging being dead, tiring. It’s alive and well in late 2011, and I’m sure it’ll continue to thrive in 2012. It’s just doing what everything else does, it’s evolved.