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The Intersection of Technology, Culture, and Politics

I am sooooo tired of my mouse. Move-click-move-click-move-click-move-click-click-move. We’ve been using mice for almost 25 years now while movies like Minority Report have shown us a glimpse of a future where all you have to do is wave your hands around a bit to get the job done (OK, you also have to live with [...]

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I’m back from Macworld and I am officially Macworlded out. The presentation went great. I had about 100 people in my audience, mostly teachers, who seemed to respond to what I was talking about and I got a lot of excellent feedback afterwards.I’ve seen a lot of exciting new Mac software, which I’ll be talking [...]

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There’s been a lot of buzz coming out lately around the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program and it’s founder, technology guru Nicholas Negropnte, but most of this centers around creating a $200 laptop. If you are not familiar with the program, Negropante wants to bring inexpensive network computing, the XO laptop, to children in [...]

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It will be a glorious day in the world of the Web when Internet Explorer 6 is completely abolished from every computer everywhere. I will not read from the litany of charges against this most sinister of Web applications; my own chief gripe has to do with how Microsoft implemented the PNG-24 format, and how [...]

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