Decolonizing the Mind: The Language of North Africa « Decolonization
LittleSis – Profiling the powers that be
Ending up on the Wrong Side of the Tracks: Valdis Krebs at TEDxRiga – YouTube
Normalizing company names with SPARQL and DBpedia – bobdc.blog
Tinkering With Scraperwiki – The Bottom Line, OpenCorporates Reconciliation and the Google Viz API « OUseful.Info, the blog…
#online12 Reflections – Can Open Public Data Be Disruptive to Information Vendors? « OUseful.Info, the blog…
Mapping the Tesco Corporate Organisational Sprawl – An Initial Sketch « OUseful.Info, the blog…
Guest Post: Data Sketching With the OpenCorporates API | OpenCorporates news
Women in Tech and Empathy Work | Lauren Bacon
Women in Tech and Empathy Work | Lauren Bacon
“Are coders encouraged to develop their people skills (communication with colleagues and customers, user empathy, etc.), or are those skills offloaded to other departments? How do you determine the pay grades for the various roles and departments in your company? Do compensation levels reflect any unconscious assumptions about the respective value of different skill sets? How do you value your team’s “empathizers”?”
Girl Geeks and Boy Kings | Dissent Magazine
Girl Geeks and Boy Kings | Dissent Magazine
“What Facebook has accomplished, by Losse’s account, isn’t the erosion of the boundary between public life and private life, but our divisions between work and pleasure. “
Occupy Batman – Yer a Wizard Harry
Twitter / DaleBeran: Wish there were a twitter …
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The Most Successful Techniques for Rising Early : zenhabits
Getting Close to the Machine (Ftrain.com)
iPad Hack Statement Of Responsibility | TechCrunch
Montreal student booted out of college for hacking computer system offered job by IT firm
森ゆに－手前みそのうた – YouTube
Best thing ever, via daidoco. “Let’s sing and dance and make Miso! Miso miso miso temae (own)miso~! May the Koji be with you.”
If you lose your cellphone, don’t blame Wayne Dobson – News – ReviewJournal.com
If you lose your cellphone, don’t blame Wayne Dobson – News – ReviewJournal.com
“A technician there explained the problem, but didn’t provide a solution, he said. Dobson was told that cellphone GPS systems don’t provide exact locations – they give a general location of where to start your search. And for some reason his house is that location for his area.”
Mercy Brown vampire incident – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mercy Brown vampire incident – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oh-oh, New England 😉
Ashes for Justice – The Invisible Backpack of Able-Bodied Privilege Checklist
Postcards from Space: Friendship Is Not Magic
Postcards from Space: Friendship Is Not Magic
“We tell our kids what not to put up with from romantic partners; from parents; from older relatives. We don’t so much tell them that these are also not okay things for friends to do.”
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Oh, the hu-manatee!, meaning and tattoos
The Dewey Decimal System, And Where Innovation Goes Wrong | Fast Company
The Dewey Decimal System, And Where Innovation Goes Wrong | Fast Company
“We need ideas we can’t possibly guess we need. We must canvass concepts that are entirely unrelated to our present problem set. Only thus do we give our deeper powers of pattern recognition a chance to work.”