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Monthly Archives: December 2012
CABINET // The Coldscape
Anti-native racism common in Toronto health care – thestar.com
Anti-native racism common in Toronto health care – thestar.com
Includes a list of examples where stereotypes led to physical harm, lack of medical treatment, etc.
The MOOC movement is not an indicator of educational evolution – O’Reilly Radar
The MOOC movement is not an indicator of educational evolution – O’Reilly Radar
Canned online courses as transitional media, like films of stage plays.
FoundationDB
A key-value store with other data models and querying apis layered over top, so you can treat the same data as relational (with sql queries) and graph (with gremlin traversals) at the same time. WHAT. Indexes as a data model, like in document databases.
No Longer Vaporware: The Internet of Things Is Finally Talking | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
No Longer Vaporware: The Internet of Things Is Finally Talking | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
“So Sande bought a new gizmo called the WeMo Switch, which connects to the Internet so you can turn on an outlet remotely. It’s also programmable. Using the free web service If This Then That, Sande created a script that monitors information from Yahoo Weather. If the temperature in his neighborhood hits 85 degrees, the fan turns itself on and cools the house.”
Los Angeles Review of Books – Judith Butler And The Cause Of The Other
UX IMMERSION Conference 2013 – Mobile
The Role of Indigenous Men in Ending Violence Against Women – ICTMN.com
The Role of Indigenous Men in Ending Violence Against Women – ICTMN.com
Kind of an amazing framing of colonial violence as inevitable: “But one statistic that struck me was a study that concluded that 80 per cent of violence against Indigenous women and girls is perpetrated by non-Indigenous people and 20 per cent by Indigenous. And it occurred to me that, while there is not much we can do directly about the 80 per cent, the 20 per cent by Indigenous men is preventable.”