Links published on August 14, 2006
Attempt at MySpace intrusion criticized
This story ran in the Journal-World last week, but it’s worth point out that, if the bill passes the Senate in its current form, public schools and libraries would technically be required to block access to, well, the Journal-World. And lawrence.com. And pretty much all of our other sites.
This is stupidity writ large.
Angry Indeed
But the worst part? None of this is new. Look back two years, when David Baron and Brendan Eich walked away from a W3C Workshop in disgust. To a large degree, both men walked away from the W3C itself at that point—and if you’ve spurred David Baron to turn his back on the web’s central standards body, then boyo, you’ve got some deeply serious problems.
The man has a point.
What is Left? What is Right?
In many ways, today’s conservatives are party men and women not unlike those we saw in totalitarian countries, people who spout the line and slay the enemy without a thought as to the principles involved. Yes, they hate the Left. But only because the Left is the “other.”
Rockwell lays some inconvenient truth on today’s “conservatives”.
youth and those crazy hormones
When discussing the plight of teenagers with adults, i’m often chastised for viewing teens as mature humans capable of making reasonable decisions. All too often, people point to all that psychological research that indicates that teens are experiencing extensive hormonal rushes that impair their judgment. And then i go home to my 30-something friends who see a baby and start cooing as their biological clock begs for attention. And then i talk to people my mom’s age going through menopause and being about as coo-coo as they come. And then i get calls from my older male friends who are experiencing their midlife crisis and think that trading in their wife for people my age is a good idea.
In case you hadn’t realized it already, danah just rocks.