Save the Constitution

I wish there was more I could do to support Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s recent motion to impeach our so-called President. I understand why Speaker Nancy Pelosi would rather not support any action to impeach. She’s dead wrong. Mr. Bush has violated so many laws (35 by Kucinich’s account) and broken our Constitution. Do we really [...]

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Modern data visualization

Smashing Magazine has catalogued some of the most amazing visualization technique available today. I’m particularly fascinated by the spacial navigation and visualization models. As technology catches up with the processing capabilities of humans, we’ll be seeing more and more technology like this. We don’t think in folders and files–we think in relationships, proximity and “likeness.” [...]

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Social media defined

If you’re still a bit fuzzy on this “social media thing,” here’s a great little move by Common Craft that makes it all clear. And tasty, too.

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Mouse-less computer?

Microsoft, having let Apple pave the way, has announced that they’ll be releasing touch screen computer technology in the near future. I wonder if what this report implies is correct though–a mouse-less computer would indeed be a bad thing. Sure, I love being able to touch my screen to control things. There are even times [...]

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Virus

Even though Mac OS/X has been demonstrating more problems of late (40 Mac OS X security patches this month, preceded by 90 security patches last month according to Mitchell Ashley), there have still been no significant breaches of OS/X security. Mitchell’s point is that Apple has remained too obscure a target to garner much attention [...]

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