Internet Revolution Creates A Digital Divide

A strange phenomenon is happening today in technology: it’s evolving, it’s proliferating, and it’s changing the way people learn. But more than that, it’s creating a knowledge gap that’s affecting a certain demographic of people in the world. While the Internet is responsible for more global economic growth than renewable energy, mining, and agriculture, there [...]

Summertime and 60 Small Ways to Improve Your Life

No, just kidding. I was reading 60 Small Ways to Improve Your Life in the Next 100 Days at Lifehack.org out of my Instapaper bin of unread articles and I remind everyone that I believe large lists of items such as these are damaging in general, too large, too overwhelming.

My approach is to read [...]

Read: Empire at the End of Decadence

 

From the NYtimes Op-Ed Columnist Charles M. Blow, published 18 Feb 2011, read Empire at the End of Decadence. The chart he provides allows for an interesting, thought provoking, discussion in class.

 

 

 

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2010: How I Spent My Summer!

This summer I haven’t posted as I was out riding across the TransAmerica, TransAm, #acatransam! The trail took me from Yorktown, VA to Portland, OR. See the trip, with notes and pix on Google Maps or TrackMyTour.

I am decompressing at present and haven’t even cleaned or performed maintenance on my Rivendell Atlantis: Home 4,143 [...]

Need an Ultra Cheap Machine for School?

Walmart has you covered. Engadget reviews the $348 17-inch Toshiba Satellite L355 and finds that Toshiba’s shockingly inexpensive Satellite L355 (S7915) with a 17-inch display (1,440 x 900), a 2.2GHz Celeron 900 CPU, Vista Basic, 3GB of RAM, a 250GB (5400RPM) hard drive, 8x DVD writer and GMA 4500M integrated graphics could be a great [...]