The BA acquired its current inflated status by accident. Advanced skills for people with brains really did get more valuable over the course of the 20th century, but the acquisition of those skills got conflated with the existing system of…
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Rethinking Education, Degrees and Achievement
8/15/2008 – 9:16 am
Austin Twitter Blood Drive
7/2/2008 – 5:33 pm
Photo courtesy of makelessnoise
An amazing group of people getting together to give a little of themselves. It’s a simple as that.
A lot may be made of the social media aspects of this event (organized and advertised via Twitter, by people…
Designing Milk
6/30/2008 – 1:45 pm
The New York Times is running a great article titled Solution, or Mess? A Milk Jug for a Green Earth (thanks to Sarah Kampman for posting it to the IxDA list). In the piece, Stephanie Rosenbloom covers a major shift in the…
Sold Out Digital Downloads
6/28/2008 – 4:55 pm
I was looking forward to purchasing the full version of the Spore Creature Creator, so after following the appropriate links, I ended up on the purchase page hosted on GameTree. After pressing the green Buy button, my cart remained empty - no…
SproutCore: Apple’s Flanking Move?
6/16/2008 – 10:46 am
I wasn’t all that familiar with Sproutcore, Apple’s JavaScript framework prior to reading this article, but after thinking the arguments over, I think Apple has been flanking the other players in the application marketplace (both online and desktop) for a…
Ignorance & Confidence
2/19/2008 – 10:00 am
Kruger and Dunning noted a number of previous studies which tend to suggest that in skills as diverse as reading comprehension, operating a motor vehicle, and playing chess or tennis, “ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge” (as Charles…
I’m Not My Parents
2/13/2008 – 11:00 am
Without dismissing the accomplishments of her folks (her father was dead before she was 2), [Frances Bean] Cobain advises, “People need to wait until I’ve done something valid with my life.”
Frances Bean Cobain: ‘I’m Not My Parents’ at People.com
That’s…
Bad English
1/28/2008 – 10:10 am
A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly…
A New Face for Refresh Austin
1/20/2008 – 8:33 pm
I plan to kick out the official announcement tomorrow morning, once I trust that the DNS has propagated to each little piece of the Net, so consider this a soft launch. We’ve launched a redesign for RefreshAustin.org after months of discussion,…
Topology
1/3/2008 – 8:08 am
Science News has a great description of Topology in their article Tied Up in Knots, which is the field of study my good friend Ken has decided to use as his focus for his academic research (he has a doctorate…