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Elaine wasn’t sure what Gary was reading, but she hoped for his sake it was the latest issue of How to Tell a Rug From a Blanket.

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How to Pronounce Carpe Diem (by PronunciationManual)

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One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom

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“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel

Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said: “Allie, I’m not playing. It’s time for art. The rule is no hoods or hats in school.”

She looked up with tears in her eyes and I realized there was something wrong. Her classmates went into the art room and we moved to the art storage area so her classmates wouldn’t hear our conversation. I softened my tone and asked her if she’d like to tell me what was wrong.

“My ponytail,” she cried.

“Can I see?” I asked.

She nodded and pulled down her hood. Allie’s braids had come undone overnight and there hadn’t been time to redo them in the morning, so they had to be put back in a ponytail. It was high up on the back of her head like those of many girls in our class, but I could see that to Allie it just felt wrong. With Allie’s permission, I took the elastic out and re-braided her hair so it could hang down.

“How’s that?” I asked.

She smiled. “Good,” she said and skipped off to join her friends in art.

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The other day, I read a perceptive article, “In Defense of Friction,” arguing that “automated trust systems undermine trust by incentivizing cooperation because of the fear of punishment rather than actual trust.” That’s a profound point. If we rely on computational systems for a trust framework, we actually lose our instincts and capacity for personal trust; even more, we cease to care about it. And there’s a big difference between trusting someone and relying on a system that says they’re trustworthy.
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I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the client understands that that’s worth anything, or that the client thinks it’s worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It’s worth it to me. It’s the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.” ~ Saul Bass
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What people often forget is that same war had a design dimension: Microsoft’s UIs were built around the idea of being able to find multiple ways to the same point. Thus, you had a start button and an application button and a list of recently opened apps. To some extent, Apple has begun moving in that direction with little features such as the Launch Pad. But Apple’s overriding philosophy has always been that everything you want to do within a UI should have only one path for getting there.
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There’s a balance between being passive and present that every highly interactive product has to negotiate. Getting that balance right is the difference between creating a product that’s a pain to use, or a pleasure.
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Image as interest: How the Pepper Spray Cop could change the trajectory of Occupy Wall Street

It’s worth returning, for a moment, to the idea of trending topics algorithms, which reward discrete events over ongoing movements, favoring spikes over steadiness, effectively punishing trends that build, gradually, over time. (Which is to say: effectively punishing the notion of a “movement” itself.) This bias toward the spiky over the sticky is a defining feature, as well, of the daily workings of the traditional media (and of their great organizational mechanism, the Epiphanator): Occupy’s much-discussed lack of a singular identity has been not only kind of the whole point, but also, to some extent, the result of the way the movement has been mediated by a press that tends to reward newness over endurance. Occupy’s story — like all stories of ongoing political movements that are told by traditional producers of daily journalism — has been told episodically, in staccato rhythms that emphasize explosive ruptures in expectation. (“Expectation,” of course, being defined by the Epiphanator itself.) Occupy is, like so many other movements, subject to “the tyranny of recency.”

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1966: Apollo Guidance ComputerDesigned by the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory and one of the first integrated circuit-based computers, the APC supplied onboard computation for the guidance, navigation, and control of the Command Module and Lunar Module spacecraft of the Apollo program for their moon mission — on, roughly speaking, the same amount of memory as greeting cards that today sing “Happy Birthday.” (via Click! A Brief History of Computing - Photo Gallery - LIFE)

1966: Apollo Guidance Computer
Designed by the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory and one of the first integrated circuit-based computers, the APC supplied onboard computation for the guidance, navigation, and control of the Command Module and Lunar Module spacecraft of the Apollo program for their moon mission — on, roughly speaking, the same amount of memory as greeting cards that today sing “Happy Birthday.” (via Click! A Brief History of Computing - Photo Gallery - LIFE)

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The ARPANET Dialogues

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In the period between 1975 and 1979, the Agency convened a rare series* of conversations between an eccentric cast of characters representing a wide range of perspectives within the contemporary social, political and cultural milieu. The ARPANET Dialogues is a serial document which archives these conversations. Even more unusual perhaps was the specific circumstances of the conversation: taking advantage of recent developments in telecommunications technology, the conversation was conducted via an instant messaging application networked by computers plugged into ARPANET, the United States Department of Defense’s experimental computer network. All participants in the conversation were given special access to terminals connected to ARPANET, many of them located in US military installations or DOD-sponsored research institutions around the world. 

The following transcript presents an excerpt of a conversation between Governor Ronald Reagan of California, artist Marcel Broodthaers, cultural anthropologist Edward Said, and actress Jane Fonda. The session was moderated by Maeve O’Reilly. Please note that the respective computer terminals for each participant were identified by the names of gods from Roman mythology and have here been changed to reflect the actual names of the participants. The application, still in its early stage of development, had limited syntax capability, thus punctuation was limited to the full stop.

RONALD REAGAN: Im not clear on the point of this exercise.

MARCEL BROODTHAERS: Well I think we are testing the possibilities of this device.

MARCEL BROODTHAERS: I understand it is to be launched much more widely soon. I suspect Jane will be the celebrity endorsement.

EDWARD SAID: Marcel I hope there is more to it than that.

RONALD REAGAN: OK but why us.

MARCEL BROODTHAERS: Well think about the implications. Imagine what something like this would offer to the world.

EDWARD SAID: What are the implications. This will revolutionize they way people do business. Culture perhaps. Someone from Japan can have a conversation with someone from California. What about China.

RONALD REAGAN: Wouldnt you rather pick up the phone and call.

RONALD REAGAN: All this damned typing.

MARCEL BROODTHAERS: You get faster.

EDWARD SAID: Yes I would but if it were to be cheap and inexpensive.

EDWARD SAID: Free.

RONALD REAGAN: Free. Well who pays for it in the end though.

MARCEL BROODTHAERS: The people of course.

RONALD REAGAN: You mean taxes.

MARCEL BROODTHAERS: I assume you are in a military communication centre like me. Both of you.

EDWARD SAID: But for a young man or woman in Sri Lanka this might help them voice their ideas to people like a university professor from Michigan or an architect from Bahia.

EDWARD SAID: The rich should pay.

RONALD REAGAN: I do see the value in this tool.

MARCEL BROODTHAERS: How do you think these kinds of stronger connections with the world will benefit you Ronald.

RONALD REAGAN: Personally. Oh maybe I could keep in better touch with people I know who are far away. But I prefer face to face conversations to really do my work.

RONALD REAGAN: Seems like an interesting business opportunity.

MARCEL BROODTHAERS: And what about for your citizens in California?

EDWARD SAID: But if a student of mine wanted to go to Iran they wouldnt have the money but they could discuss issues with Iranian students using this thing.

MARCEL BROODTHAERS: Students I think could benefit from this greatly.

EDWARD SAID: Yes I can imagine.

MARCEL BROODTHAERS: Vast networks of students.

EDWARD SAID: Networks. What does that mean really.

MARCEL BROODTHAERS: Youth must be provided with the means to grasp this opportunity.

RONALD REAGAN: Sounds a bit out of control to me.

EDWARD SAID: Sounds suspicious.

MARCEL BROODTHAERS: The young will grasp its potential in a way we couldnt imagine.

RONALD REAGAN: I dont doubt that.

*Disclaimer: The parties responsible for presenting the textual information on this website, and in other formats that appear as part of this project, disclose that their intention is to create the thoughts and emotions of the various characters presented through The Arpanet Dialoguesin an effort to simulate debate about the current state of world affairs from the perspective of hindsight.

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