In moving to Kubuntu 5.04 from a Knoppix install, my loop-aes partitions are no longer readable. Since crypto-loop is being deprecated anyway, I thought …

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In a discussion on the possibility of limiting anonymous edits to the Wikipedia – resulting from the mad dash of unwelcome activity during April Fool’s …

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Just ten years after the first electronic computer was built, and two years after the release of IBM’s first mainframe, a collaborative association was …

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A segment on tonight’s MythBusters addresed the question of “whether buttered toast falls buttered side up or down more often?” This is one of …

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In a small seminar Sherry Turkle spoke of her work on relational artifacts: devices that present as having a mind of their own so as …

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There are two oddities associated with concerns about the Wikipedia in the school setting, when teachers do not permit the students to use Wikipedia as …

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I’ve been playing with Fredrik Lundh’s ElementTree as an intuitive/pythonic way of processing XML. (While I like Aaron Swarz’s XML Tramp …

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Why is abstraction such a powerful technique in computer science, but a potentially befuddling one in the social sciences? In computer science, abstractions permit one …

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A new model of design

First there was designers design. Then there was user-centered design. But even that, is now behind the times. Given open …

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Epistomological Authority

Two recent discussions have prompted me to return to question of epistemological authority. In the case of the online collaborative Wikipedia, Larry Sanger …

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