April 2012
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All Out: AllOut.org Thanks Electronic Arts (EA)... →
alloutorg:
In Two Days, Over 60,000 Sign Petition Urging Electronic Arts to Resist the Power of the Dark Side
San Francisco, CA - In the face of right-wing attacks by the Family Research Council, consumers and citizens around the world are strongly backing one of the largest video game makers,…
February 2012
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On the Decline of our Political Environment
(Image via CBC.ca - Image Gallery - This week in Canadian politics)
Note: I am not associated with the Liberal Party of Canada, the signs they are holding just express how I feel.
TL/DR: Assuming the accusations are true, did vote suppression win the Tories the election? Nope. Continue reading if you are interested in seeing how I came up with this.
It’s time to stop being nonpartisan....
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January 2012
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December 2011
7 posts
“A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.”
– James P. MacLenna (via wihtiko)
Dear Internet: It's No Longer OK to Not Know How... →
jephjacques: UN Hearing On AI Rights →
jephjacques:
The subject of this debate is whether AIs are “people-” whether they possess the same degree of personhood as humans, and whether that entitles them to the same rights.
You have heard all the arguments for and against the consciousness, intelligence, free will, and cognition of artificial…
Brand Identity →
A striking resemblance to Dharma Initiative supplies ;)
November 2011
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The End of an Internet (Explorer) Era →
It’s about time! According to Arstechnica, http://arst.ch/rg6 which cites http://www.netmarketshare.com, Internet Explorer has finally dropped below 50% browser market share. As a web designer, this comes as a great relief.
Microsoft’s slow adoption (read: blatant ignorance) to web standards, has been a curse to web designers for years. Instead of focusing on design and usability, the...
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A Wiki? Yeah! →
http://wiki.mroberts.me
Full disclosure: I totally stole this idea from Wesley, but it has helped me study for Psychology so far so I am going to run with it. We spend so much time writing these notes things, why shouldn’t we do something with them?
If someone in my classes finds these, it might be useful to them, maybe no one will but having to type them out and format them forces me...
October 2011
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#BAD11 Blog Action Day 2011
#BAD11 I know I am a couple days late… silly university being busy and all that.
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Hello World
I have decided to follow in the steps of my business partner Malcolm McCulloch, and friend Wesley Ellis, and add a blog to my personal site.
My journey started with Ruby on Rails and PHP-MySQL, but I decided I didn’t want to spend the time to develop something from scratch. Looking into platforms like Google Sites, Blogger and Wordpress, I wanted to completely customize the design to fit it...