Johanna Rothman: Make Stories Small When You Have "Wicked" Problems (more)

Some Women, such as Caroline Criado Perez, who do anything visible, become targets of Verbal Abuse online from some men, esp via Twitter (because of the combination of Asymmetric Follow with high public visibility). (more)

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Writing pseudonymously as "A Square",[1] the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland (more)

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming. (more)

Journalism venture founded by Pierre Omidyar and Glenn Greenwald. (more)

Khoi Vinh (born December 3, 1971) is a graphic designer, blogger, and former Design Director for The New York Times,[1] where he worked from January 2006 until July 2010... In 2011, he and Scott Ostler founded Lascaux Co., a New York City startup. In November 2011, the company launched Mixel, an iPad app combining the power of social networks and multi-touch tablets to let people from all walks of life make art. In 2013, he sold Mixel to Etsy and joined their team. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khoi_Vinh (more)

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act or JOBS Act, is a law intended to encourage funding of United States small businesses by easing various securities regulations. It passed with bipartisan support, and was signed into law by President Barack Obama on April 5, 2012... While the JOBS Act itself was passed on April 5, 2012, the two pieces of most importance to much of the Crowd Funding and Start Up community will not go into place until the SEC puts into effect rules that outline how the JOBS Act will be enforced. Despite a mandate to enact rules on Title II within 90 days of April 5, 2012, the SEC did not put out proposed rules until August 29, 2012.[32] The SEC also has a mandate to enact rules under Title III of the JOBS Act within 270 days of April 5, 2012, but are very likely to miss that deadline, some say over concerns by outgoing chairman Mary Schapiro over her legacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpstart_Our_Business_Startups_Act (more)

I gave a weird talk to some Barrington Il Prairie Middle School 8th graders about life as an Internet Start Up CTO. I used a FreeMind Mind Map for my talk: the MindMeister version is here. Turned into a whole World View thing, of course. (more)

Jim Webb says he's running for US President. He sought to carve out a niche for himself by working for criminal justice reform, but left office before any political momentum developed on the issue. And then he left, after one term, leaving Democrats to defend a purple seat against Allen.

Summary: recommendations for improving quality of life in the Third World (more)

Zainab Oni (High School student) learned about becoming a Reality Hacker from Mozilla's programs. We learned that hacking doesn't only happen with computers. You can hack clothes, games, decorations, styles, etc. We also learned that hacking isn't always illegal and you can hack for good sometimes. After learning more about hacking, our hacking definitions changed. We also hacked Monopoly and Tic Tac Toe by creating our own set of rules for the games and inventing new ways to play them. (Digital Literacy)

Barack Obama made a recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to head CMS. Berwick is a big proponent of "PatientCenteredMedicine", which sounds like a good thing. The Science Based Medicine crowd fears that his Consumerist approach supports quackery like the Anti Vax and CAM crowd. His presence at a Summit On Integrative Medicine confirms that fear. He mentioned homeopathy and acupuncture, not to criticize them as health claims, but only to warn that they shouldn’t compete with each other, or with other modalities, for limited health care resources... As an aside, it’s ironic that Berwick leans toward Single Payer health care. His radical “I want what I want when I want it” model of patient centeredness could never function in any conceivable form of single payer care in the U.S.

The Gates Foundation is giving a $200 million grant to establish an initiative called "The Grand Challenge-s in Global Health." The objectives are to identify (Public Health) research areas with the greatest promise for saving and improving lives in the developing world (Third World); to fund novel, interdisciplinary approaches among researchers seeking solutions; and to get the rich-world scientific community to apply its experience to pivotal health questions of the developing world... It's tragic how little is spent on Malaria and TB (tuberculosis), but it's not surprising: 99% of sufferers live in developing countries. (more)

Dada /ˈdɑːdɑː/ or Dadaism was an art movement of the European Avant Garde in the early 20th century. Many claim Dada began in Zurich, Switzerland in 1916, spreading to Berlin shortly thereafter but the height of New York Dada was the year before, in 1915.[1] The term Anti-art, a precursor to Dada, was coined by Marcel Duchamp around 1913 when he created his first readymades.[2] Dada, in addition to being anti-war, had political affinities with the radical left and was also anti-bourgeois.[3] Dada activities included public gatherings, demonstrations, and publication of art/literary journals; passionate coverage of art, politics, and culture were topics often discussed in a variety of media. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada

Chris Locke pulls a quote from Paul Feyerabend's Against Method (anarchistic theory of knowledge/science): However Anarchism, as it has been practised in the past and as it is being practised today by an ever increasing number of people has features I am not prepared to support. It cares little for human lives and human Happiness (except for the lives and the happiness of those who belong to some special Core Group); and it contains precisely the kind of Puritanical dedication and seriousness which I detest... It is for these reasons that I now prefer to use the term Dadaism... A DadaIst (DaDa) is convinced that a worthwhile life will arise only when we start taking things lightly and when we remove from our speech the profound but already putrid meanings it has accumulated over the centuries...

Peter Diamandis: Stone Soup (more)

Mobile OS created in 2010 by merging Intel's Mob Lin and Nokia's Mae Mo. (Linux[[OS]]) (more)

expensive custom IBM software for NYC Public School system (Educating Kids In Nyc) (more)

I want a Folding Text Editor equivalent to Active State Win Python running on MacOs X (more)

application for editing text... (more)