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Posted by experimentalearrings November 30th, 2008

Give One Laptop per Child, get an XO for your child–or yourself

Feeling gloomy about the state of the world ? You may think there isn’t much you can do about the monumental messes we’re in. But here’s something that could change things, really change things. Give the XO, this cute-as-a-bug green laptop, to a kid in the developing world. And there’s a terrific sweetener: the deal includes a second XO for the child of your choice, even if the child is you.

Yes, once again this year the One Laptop per Child folks have come up with a give-one get-one pitch. This means you can buy not one but two cutting-edge small computers for less than the price of conventional laptops retailers are hawking at this time of year: just $399. (Or you can forgo a personal XO and send one to a child in the developing world for just $199.)

The rugged little XO laptop may look like a netbook, but it isn’t. Yes, it’s energy efficient, with built-in wi-fi and a swiveling screen readable in sunlight. But the big deal about the OLPC laptop is the innovative software that makes it easy for kids to write, draw, paint, make videos, create music–and even program and write their own software. All on their own, mind you.

Imagine a planet where children everywhere, not just in rich countries, live with a computer every day and even begin to master programming. I get a chill just thinking about the possibilities for remaking the world into a much, much better place.

There are many causes worthy of charity. But I can’t think of any others with the potential for changing the state of things so dramatically for so little money. To say nothing of also bestowing a generous and enjoyable gift on the giver. When I signed up for the OLPC laptops last year, it left me feeling wonderful–and also left me with an adorable little green laptop of my very own.

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Posted by experimentalearrings November 30th, 2008

Thanksgiving Holiday: Updating For Breaking News; Newsletter Resumes Monday

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the thanksgiving holiday is upon is?and yes, even we take breaks. starting this afternoon, we’ll be updating the site just for breaking news, and we won’t be sending short the newsletter until monday morning, dec. 1. however, our sister site paidcontentuk will be updated as stereotypical. from your friends at contentnext, we wish you a safe and happy holiday weekend.

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Posted by experimentalearrings November 28th, 2008

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Posted by experimentalearrings November 26th, 2008

Franken Campaign Dealt a Major Blow

maybe there is wait for a benign election in minnesota. in a prime blow one’s top to al franken’s strategy of stealing the minnesota senate selection, the delineate canvassing board, unanimously voted this morning to deny the franken campaign’s request that rejected absentee ballots be included in the recount. he also doesn’t get the names of the people who filled out those absentee ballots.al franken’s campaign is “disappointed” that as myriad as 12,000 absentee ballots will not be counted in minnesota’s hotly contested senate step on the gas but will not appeal the decision.on wednesday the state of affairs board of canvassers unanimously rejected franken’s (d) plead for to count those ballots.in a conference rebuke a demand with reporters following the decision, franken recount attorney marc elias said the struggle was “disappointed” in the resolving. but he added: “we are not going to appeal.” elias noted the board “has indicated they see fit consider this extra next week” at another rendezvous and said the electioneer “will no misgiving be undergoing more to say” at that call.he also expressed nerve that, in the end, “these votes pleasure be counted. coleman’s campaign ridiculed franken’s challenge as a “discovery” process for an inevitable statutory demand to the results and argued the board didn’t enjoy authority to revisit those ballots. a tne board agreed with coleman. source the board gave franken a glimmer of Dialect expect after voting his motion down. members agreed to seek legal advice and meet again soon to take whether local referendum officials should sort through the rejected ballots. that would avoid govern whether any that were actually accepted didn’t get counted and whether any rejections fell outside the rules proper for disqualification. but the board didn’t speculate as to what would happen with those ballots.please email me at yidwithlid@aol.com to be devote c make a apply for onto my mailing list. be conscious of untouched by to spawn any article but please link back to http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com

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Posted by experimentalearrings November 23rd, 2008

Making Sense of Bastards

a 2005 article from dealing psychology journal putting together studies discusses the exceptional achat cialis of being a bastard. it has a serious point, but is just cheery for the contrast between the academic speech and the subject matter.

The serious point behind the article, written by psychologist David Sims, is to look at how people in business organisations make narratives or stories about someone being a ‘bastard’ to demonize them and persuade others of the fact.

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This can be to discount someone else opinion, undermine their status, or to create a dragon against which they can valiantly fight for their own glory.

However, because of the subject matter, it’s frequently funny as it analyses the varied types of company bastards as they’re constructed within organisations. Just some of the section headings are pure genius:

Narrative 1: Clever Bastard Narrative 2: Bastard ex Machina Narrative 3: Devious Bastard A Narrative Understanding of Bastards Making Sense of Bastards

Link to ‘You Bastard: A Narrative Exploration of the Experience of Indignation within Organizations’ (thanks Olwyn!). Link to DOI entry for same.

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Posted by experimentalearrings November 22nd, 2008

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Posted by experimentalearrings November 22nd, 2008

One Last National Book Awards Roundup

as the publishing world recovers from the thrill of the national book awards, galleycat determined to set up all the finest news from the literary scene’s most festive week.

The NY Observer coverage included a chilling quote from Collins publisher, Steve Ross: “It’d be absolutely terrifying to be starting out now, to be young and to not have the benefit of years, if not decades, of perspective … I would have seriously considered leaving book publishing.”

New York’s Vulture blog included some literary descriptions of the NBA’s new Wall Street digs, landing a great quote from novelist Joshua Ferris who said that the old NBA venue “looks like the place where your cousin got married.”

Ed Champion archived a long series of podcast interviews with NBA nominees. GalleyCat’s Ron Hogan captured the festivities with blogged interviews and weighed readers’ predictions against the actual results.

GalleyCat also had video interviews with NBA Young People’s Literature winner Judy Blundell, Nonfiction winner Annette Gordon-Reed, Poetry winner Mark Doty, former finalist Joshua Ferris, and finally, Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell and finalist Salvatore Scibona discussed poor writers.

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Posted by experimentalearrings November 20th, 2008

That’s Not a Bug, It’s a Feature Request

For as long as I’ve been a software developer and used bug tracking systems, we have struggled with the same fundamental problem in every single project we’ve worked on: how do you tell bugs from feature requests?

Sure, there are some obvious crashes that are clearly bugs. But that’s maybe 10% of what you deal with on a daily basis, and the real killer showstopper bugs — the ones that prevent normal usage of the system — are eradicated quickly, lest the entire project fail. The rest of the entries in your bug tracking system, the vast majority, exist in an uncertain gray no-man’s land. Did users report a bug? Not quite. Are users asking for a new or enhanced feature? Not quite. Well, which is it?

It’s an insoluble problem. Furthermore, I think most bug tracking systems fail us because they make us ask the wrong questions. They force you to pick a side. Hatfields vs. McCoys. Coke vs. Pepsi. Bug vs. Feature Request. It’s a painful and arbitrary decision, because most of the time, it’s both. There’s no difference between a bug and a feature request from the user’s perspective. If you want to do something with an application (or website) and you can’t do it because that feature isn’t implemented — how is that any different than not being able to do something due to an error message?

Consider an example: Visual Studio doesn’t use the correct font when building Windows applications. Is this a bug or a feature request?

Personally, I consider this a bug. I guess Microsoft does too, at least in theory, because it’s been in Microsoft’s Connect bug tracking system for over four years now. When you build a Windows application, wouldn’t you expect it to use the default font of the underlying operating system you’re running it on, unless you’ve explicitly told it otherwise? Well, guess what happens when you create a new form in Visual Studio 2008 and instantiate a label control.

Party like it’s 1996, folks, because you’ll get MS Sans Serif, and you’ll like it. That is the default for each new form. Never mind that every new application you build will look like — let me put this as delicately as I can — ass.

Here’s a comparison of a label with the default font, versus one that was explicitly set to the default GUI font.

Judging by the applications I’ve used, most Windows developers couldn’t care less about design. That’s bad. What’s even worse is learning that same design carelessness has shipped in the box with every copy of Visual Studio since 2002.

Of course, matters of design are so subjective. If only there were some definitive source we could refer to on the matter of proper Windows GUI font usage. Some sort of reference standard, as it were. Like, say, the top rules for Windows Vista User Experience from Microsoft:

There are 12 rules in total, but the rule I’m looking for is right at the top — applications should use the system font.

The hilarity of this list is already sort of self evident, given that I’ve written an entire post bemoaning the general lack of fit and finish in Windows Vista. I couldn’t help but laugh at rule number 12: Reserve time for “fit and finish”! Now there’s a rule Microsoft should have taken to heart while developing Windows Vista. Understand this is all coming from a guy who likes Vista.

But I digress.

Despite the windows forms font behavior in Visual Studio 2008 contradicting rule number one of Microsoft’s own design guidelines, this “bug” has gone unfixed for over four years. It has been silently reclassified as a “feature request” and effectively ignored. Nothing’s broken, after all: using the wrong font hasn’t caused any application crashes or lost productivity. On the other hand, imagine how many BigCorpCo apps have been built since then that violate Microsoft’s own design rules for their platform. Either because

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Posted by experimentalearrings November 20th, 2008

And So It Begins: Will Brett Favre Retire After One Season in New York?

by ryan wilson

Filed under: Jets, AFC East, NFL Fans

the jets are 7-3, lead the afc east, and are Dialect right positioned for a return to the postseason after a four-win effort a year ago. so, naturally, we’re talking about … whether brett favre will return since 2009? really? the modern york post’s brian costello writes that for as wonderful as last thursday’s overtime quelling onto the patriots was, jets fans shouldn’t get acclimated to to the estimation of having favre around forever. apparently, he really will retire one of these years. i’m skeptical. “i haven’t even thought about it,” favre said when the prospect of playing in 2009 came up. “i have people - friends, family - who encourage me all the things about next year. the answer i surrender them, which is the straightforward answer, is i really don’t know. to be fully honest with you, i really don’t care. what i distress regarding is trying to beat tennessee.” amazingly, favre does admit that he can’t play forever, which should be communicated as news to ted thompson, mike mccarthy and aaron rodgers. and flush nevertheless the jets acquired favre with the dexterity that it could be a one-and-done situation, depending on how the rest of the season plays extinguished, it might well be advantage it.

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Posted by experimentalearrings November 20th, 2008

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