Yesterday was my last day at ABB US Corporate Research. It’s been an incredible 9 years! I’m taking a few weeks off. After that I’m ready for a new adventure as a Senior Software Engineer at UserVoice.
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The Controversial Process of Redesigning the Wheelchair Symbol – Atlas Obscura
“We really like the situation we’re in,” Glenney says. “It gives visibility to the context of people with disabilities. It keeps them ‘in the market’ of ideas, so to speak. Our symbol is most successful when it’s not fully legal—when there’s lots of wrinkles and questions.” As long as conversation channels are open, he says,… Continue reading The Controversial Process of Redesigning the Wheelchair Symbol – Atlas Obscura
Know hope: The Teens Will Save Us!
I really loved this whole series on building an iPhone from spare parts. There’s a great energy running through @strangepartscom and the Shenzen markets:
That’s why you never hear politicians talking about ‘citizens,’ it’s all ‘taxpayers,’ as though the salient fact of your relationship to the state is how much you pay. Like the state was a business and citizenship was a loyalty program that rewarded you for your custom with roads and health care. Zottas cooked the process so they get all the money and own the political process, pay as much or as little tax as they want. Sure, they pay most of the tax, because they’ve built a set of rules that gives them most of the money. Talking about ‘taxpayers’ means that the state’s debt is to rich dudes, and anything it gives to kids or old people or sick people or disabled people is charity we should be grateful for, since none of those people are paying tax that justifies their rewards from Government Inc.
– Cory Doctorow, Walkaway, pp 53
North Carolina is not only the worst state in the USA for unfair districting but the worst entity in the world ever analyzed by the Electoral Integrity Project.
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Colin Kaepernick vs. Tim Tebow: A tale of two Christianities on its knees
It seems to me that Tim Tebow and Colin Kaepernick represent the two very different forms that American Christianity has come to.
And not just in the United States. In many parts of the world it feels as though the church is separating into two versions, one that values personal piety, gentleness, respect for cultural mores, and an emphasis on moral issues like abortion and homosexuality, and another that values social justice, community development, racial reconciliation, and political activism.
One version is kneeling in private prayer. The other is kneeling in public protest.
One is concerned with private sins like abortion. The other is concerned with public sins like racial discrimination.
One preaches a gospel of personal salvation. The other preaches a gospel of political and social transformation.
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This is a really neat font for generating spark lines in word, the web, & any place that takes Open Font.
From Tape Drives to Memory Orbs, the Data Formats of Star Wars Suck (Spoilers)
In other words, the archival system on Scarif appears to be designed in a deliberate act of sabotage by anti-Imperial archivists attempting to undermine Palpatine’s rule. Like Galen Erso, the archivists chose to remain embedded inside the Empire, and as their act of resistance, build the most useless, asinine archival system the galaxy had ever… Continue reading From Tape Drives to Memory Orbs, the Data Formats of Star Wars Suck (Spoilers)