I pass this Slashdot thread on with only a few comments. Firstly, we’d be in better shape if school IT in this country wasn’t five to seven years of “here’s how to use MS Office”. Secondly, I’m not totally sure that the BCS or DMU are in a position to get too stroppy about the ‘death of CS’. Thirdly, what is needed is more people who are well-trained in programming (or at the least, able to get their ideas hacked together in to some form) and have the ability to dream up crazy new ideas that shouldn’t work but will. Programming is important, and the important thing is not to be snooty about it. It doesn’t matter whether one is writing low-level C programmes, itsy-bitsy J2ME code, JavaScript widgets or anything in between. The important bit is that you’ve come up with some idea and you are executing it.
On the flip side, this is great news. Teach those kids early that life has absolutely no purpose at all except for unending suffering. That’ll learn ‘em.
Oh, and I don’t believe that 28% of online Americans tag content. Here’s why.
Why is it that religion gets away with censoring the secular world but the secular world never gets a chance to parry? Oh, wait, we’re not supposed to talk about that bit.
The ever-excellent Ben Goldacre has a review of Gillian McKeith’s phony disreputable Ph. D. thesis. Which stretches to all of 48 pages and is filled with insane suggestions about chlorophyll inside human digestive tracts (seriously, just think about that for more than five seconds) and highly reputable sources like “a few of my mates’ poo samples” and “Health Store News” magazine. I wouldn’t be surprised if when this thesis comes shooting out of the arse-end of an Inter-Library Loan, it comes with an 8x10 glossy.
If Steve Jobs hates DRM so much, why doesn’t Apple make it opt-out for content producers? (Tip: they don’t. If you are a super-small label, you can’t opt out of FairPlay.) Dave may seem cynical about Jobs, but the cynics do tend to be right.
Want a good reason to never watch CNN ever again? These Paula Zahn clips provide extremely good reasons to never watch CNN ever again. It’s as “fair and balanced” as Fox News.
Jim Moore’s video has been restored to YouTube. But the fact is that the video shouldn’t have been removed in the first place!
James Corbett is starting a conversation about entrepreneurship and culture. And I’ve commented. Let’s have a conversation about it, because it’s interesting.
