assertTrue( ): How Google is quietly killing Firefox

assertTrue( ): How Google is quietly killing Firefox: After a certain period of time spent programming, you develop a kind of sixth sense about what programs are doing. Surprisingly often, this...How Google is quietly killing Firefox....

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The phone rang; it was Oprah - KansasCity.com

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Freedom Riders

American Experience has Invited College Students from across the country to “Get on the Bus.” 

From May 6-16, 40 college students will join original Freedom Riders in retracing the 1961 Rides from Washington, DC to New Orleans, LA.    Accepted students will participate at no cost to them. All transportation, hotel and food expenses are covered by American Experience. 

The Judds

Enter the private and public lives of country music icons, Naomi and Wynonna Judd, on the new docu -series captures the complex and sometimes comical relationship between them.      Naomi, 65, and her daughter, Wynonna, 46, topped the country music charts in the early 1990s, with some 20 million records sold.   "The Judds."  on OWNetwork with the six episodes follow the award winning mother/daughter duo on OWNetwork on Sundays at 10/9c.    They then hit the road for their first and final concert tour in 10 years. 

Make This Choice

Choose...Choice is equated with a freedom, but this theory is not true for digital medias.  Choice on the internet causes us to stop, change direction, think in the box and narrow down the answers.    So, the choice may not be the real answer, and our answer is not available as one of the choices, so then, our value-sets become changed as we are forced to narrow down our answer.

              By stopping what we are doing to have to make a choice, changes the direction in which we were headed and we loose our place....

Our Oprah

              Oprah Gail Winfrey, born on  January 29, 1954 on the family farm in Kosciusko, Mississippi. to an unwed teenage mother, Vernita Lee, who found a job as a maid in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.    Oprah's dad, Vermont Winfrey, who was stationed as a solider at a local base, and  her parents never married.  
           Oprah was given to her grandmother, Hattie Mae Lee to be raised,  and as her grandmother taught her to read at an early age,  at age three Oprah was reciting poems and Bible verses in local churches.    Even with many hardships from her physical environment, she enjoyed the loving support of her grandmother and the church community, who cherished her as a gifted child.     Oprah never wasted a minute in her young youth as her imaginative mind is always on something that seemed to be boring, and all through her younger years, the farm animals became her only friends, as  she used them for giving them parts in a play, and they were also used them for playing games.

Seperated, A Digital World

The digital medias are stored and located centrally at one place, and we, the people are located differently, and with digital communications, we become dislocated, lose a sense of place, and we also lose our home-field's advantage when we are actually separated from the communications we receive from a digital place.    And, as we do this, we focus differently having a narrow point of view.    We are then taken out of reality as we are always once removed and our attentions go elsewhere leaving us numb to reality....

In Iowa, Rep. Paul critiques Ryan's budget - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

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Spelling Wins

The  Spelling Bee

          If  I could spell like that, I would be in good shape....
An 11-Year-Old Speller Proves Invincible for 2nd Year, the 11-Year-Old Speller Proves Invincible Win for 2nd time this year, Plano 6th-Grader Takes 1st Place in University-Sponsored Regional Face-off on Apr. 8, 2011...
Chetan Reddy proved invincible when he claimed the top spot at the 53rd Annual Dallas Morning News Regional Spelling Bee-co-sponsored by UT  Dallas
The 2011 Dallas Morning News Regional Spelling Bee was also presented by Whataburger and Community Coffee sponsors.
             The National Spelling Bee is scheduled to be broadcast Thursday, June 2, on ESPN beginning at 9 a.m., with the final rounds beginning at 7:30 p.m., both listed times are Central Daylight Time; check local listings.

Digital World Frying Our Brain

Digital information is fed to us in an out of sink manner.     The digital media in use, breaks up from a binary time to real time.    We then become disconnected, and we are off continuity, taking us out of our rhythmic cycles.    And, we become separated from real time, taking us out of the now moment, so we are not living in the now, and we then lose coherence and a touch for things.     With all of this, our attentions are diverted, we are numbed,  disconnected and distracted.

A Day Without Shoes

Does it really hurt to go without shoes for a day for a cause, maybe not, so kick em off and wiggle your toes...

for the cause.

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Women on Wiki

        Less women edit Wikipedia because their submission gets deleted by mostly men.  Their submission gets deleted because they are a woman, and women wiki editors have a harder time being taken seriously, convincing, impressive and as respected.  On Wikipedia, it is harder for women to gain trust, overcome ideals and defend their point of view.  Where are the women on Wikipedia?  There are many excuses of why there are less women editors on Wikipedia such as they are too busy, too much into perfection or too afraid.

Books May Becoming Extinct

         The  effects on the book's availabilities available?     The Answer the question:of why the printed book may be no more? As books become more and more less available, as books in print are becoming less and less available as we change our reading behaviors, and as Douglas Rushkoff in
         Program or Be Programmed, quotes, "a lot of the Newspapers that go online do so because they feel they do so out of a necessity;"      So, with more and more medias turning to digital, there is a less and less need to have printed materials available.

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Some Memes are Bad

A meme is a bit of cultural information exchange that starts as fact, and then the information can turn bad after filtering through many responses and re-sends of the information.    With the passing of ideas, this information is called a meme.    Good or bad, memes can turn bad.   Memes go across culture in the many ways of: audio, visual and sensory information, and these memes are sets of information that evolves throughout social network channels on the internet.   This information mimics real truth, but the meme can be easily mistaken for the real truth, with subtle information changes as
the information travels through the internet as a type of gene mutation.  Memes carry a person's attitudes and cultural beliefs in information that travel from one person to another, effecting cultures.  Bad information spread through memes can portray a negative effect to our youth and society, and such influences come form teen influenced music, fashion and media which causes bullying and authority bashing which causes negativity and false beliefs.

Social Re-Occurring Consciousness

         As an analysis on my blog posts, I see overall learning styles and how it can be applied to different areas with social networking.    I have reoccurring themes such as shared consciousness with social networking in harmony and use of skills that shapes behaviors, and the idea of being open to new possibilities.    And, working these things into harmony ties in to the prospect of working in harmony with the use of personal blogging.      Bogging to gain a personal brand, a personality, creating our own personal culture; it is bringing it to a new level of consciousness, to be active in a working environment of social networking, keeping in touch, and having a plan to create harmony.    With building harmony,  having cohesiveness is also a requirement  with that.

       So, in a article about cohesiveness called Social networks and the psychological contract: Structural holes, cohesive ties, and beliefs regarding employer obligations -Violet T. Ho; At: http://hum.sagepub.com/content/59/4/459.full.pdf+html.
As they talk about: having cohesiveness and the value between having a cohesive friendship network versus a cohesive advice network.  

Cognitive Learning Styles

We all have certain learning styles we use to learn, some learn and remember cognitively, and as a article called "Diversity, Learning Style and Culture" by Pat Burke Guild says, at:: http://home.avvanta.com/~building/strategies/styles/guild.htm   "Cognitive involve receiving, obtaining, taking possession of, and discerning information, ideas, and concepts."   So, we all have different learning styles, and we have to obtain our nich of learning.  

Linking-Links

To link links for a blog on blog spot.com, as a on-line support system on Google.com at: http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=41379. the article says, "highlight the text to be turned into a link, then press the link button, insert the link to be added for a link. and then, your link will be created.  So, it is as easy as that! 

Social Network's Contact

Socials in social networking are being sold for the dollar, and in a article called "Social networking sites gain clout in campaigns," at:/www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100822/GJNEWS_01/708229878/-1/FOSNEWS by By Jennifer Keefe says: "We reach out and not spend a lot of money,we use it to our advantage, and and most of all, we really have to be involved with all the social medias and pay attention to what's going on." Yea, they are keeping close watch on how we keep in touch with each other, so they can tap into the system for their gains, and I believe they'll spend a lot of extra time setting the selling-system up.

A Cultural Exchange-Remix

A Cultural Exchange-Remix An article says on Sustainability and Modular Complexity, it states at: http://remixtheory.net/?p=461#more-461: "A cultural exchange does not have to take place with misunderstandings and misrepresentations, and as a regard, Remix, has been a subject of spectacle and a criticism. I believe they, the users, become numb to the standards, and they are not as responsive to real life situations under these effects. The article also states, "it makes available traces for anyone who is interested in understanding how things are constructed from recycled, recombined, and re-purposed material." Maybe these things are too available in some cases. So the article goes on to say, "the noise, when extended to the music culture, becomes a tool of massive control." And, it is also true that the culture strives on the noise it creates. I find the article far fetched, and these effects from Remix have a overcoming effect toward our culture and society. I believe the Remix Revolution affect our culture in great ways, and it may effect our culture ever deeper than first realized. Also check out Mash-ups with businesses. And link to a file on Mash-up business enterprises. http://www.juliansanchez.com/2010/02/06/the-evolution-of-remix-culture/ http://remixtheory.net/?cat=6 http://motherboard.tv/2011/2/7/the-revolution-will-be-remixed--2.