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This comment summarizes it all: OLPC = One License Per Child Reported by the Inquirer, the OLPC project is throwing away its linux pedigree, opting for the impossibly corporate Microsoft Windows. What, I wonder, is the rationale behind it. An open-source OLPC would have been magic, even more so in poor countries, or in countries with large barriers [...] The great Inglehart-Weizel Cultural Map of the World. via kottke, that got it from strange maps. Of course! I am confident that the One Laptop Per Child will have the effect which is the educational equivalent of the nutritional disaster that imported formula has had on the poor parts of the world. Is this a broad generalization, or is this post by Atanu Dey actually on point? The famous OLPC irks me because of the [...] While interesting to suggest giving an OLPC, what is it that makes it insulting? It doesn’t go to a “kid”, it goes to a school system, which will then have to pay to maintain it. They’re actually having trouble unloading the devices, from what I’ve heard. walmart is, oddly, the perfect environment to deploy linux for the masses. Check the Wired article about a nice$200 desktop available at walmart. When is it that you realize that your social conscience is asleep?
A marvelous realization! All that fake Nepalese cutlery? All those distressed tables? all carefully marketed!: Diversity Magazine has an article about the recent Supreme Court decision on it, End of an Era? starts with This Toronto activist’s idea of painting your own bike lanes makes wonder about the legality and feasibility of such an activity here in Winston-Salem. The roads are very narrow, the bikers are mostly recreational, and [...] Today is World Refugee Day, a day instituted to bring awareness to the plight of the millions of people displaced by racism, intolerance, war and persecution. |
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