http://www.arkansawyer.com/wordpress Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:26:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I wear my skin only as thin as I have to, armor myself only as much as seems absolutely necessary. I try to live naked in the world, unashamed even under attack, unafraid even though I know how much there is to fear. http://www.arkansawyer.com/wordpress/?p=272 Here's our last installment, and here's today's, in two parts: But for math the ACCUPLACER says “you cannot go to college until you learn multiplication tables” – period. It is no wonder that many 19-year olds walk out and say “f*ck that!” and give up on college. They found their way ... http://www.arkansawyer.com/wordpress/?p=271 Jonathan Zasloff asks a good question. http://www.arkansawyer.com/wordpress/?p=270 It's very simple: The assumes I don't know that every application, whether open source or proprietary, requires upkeep. I find that patronizing on a good day and insulting on a bad one. http://www.arkansawyer.com/wordpress/?p=269 First off, I had one really neat idea, for which I'd like to get a simple implementation done quickly. I'm not sure doing so is within one person's spare time efforts, but still, it was a neat idea. Other things: The language used around data portability is confused and incoherent. Look at ... http://www.arkansawyer.com/wordpress/?p=268 Using technology from top Silicon Valley companies, advertisers are creating a new breed of digital signs that can be customized depending on a viewer's age and gender, and on the age, gender, and intent of the person standing next to the viewer, standing behind the viewer, or looking furtively over ... http://www.arkansawyer.com/wordpress/?p=267 The author of one of my favorite webcomics said something really great today. I've deliberately quoted it and not linked to it. You can find it and the piece it references with little effort. http://www.arkansawyer.com/wordpress/?p=266 I've had a grudge against Thomas Friedman ever since he slandered the countryside between the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport and Bentonville as "Dogpatch". The man doesn't recognize working farmland and unfarmable hill country, which is bad enough, and doesn't recognize his own failure to understand what he sees, which is ... http://www.arkansawyer.com/wordpress/?p=263 Yesterday, on an SUV with a Tim Griffin bumpersticker, I saw this bumper sticker below it: ECONOMIC QUESTIONS SHOULD NEVER HAVE POLITICAL ANSWERS which is itself a political answer to an economic question. http://www.arkansawyer.com/wordpress/?p=262 Two quotes from this short article: But where Bloch differed from other Marxists was in his insistence that it was not possible to simply dismiss religion as "the sigh of the oppressed creature in a hostile world" without recognising that the sigh contained the pre-illumination of a different and better world. and The ... http://www.arkansawyer.com/wordpress/?p=261