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Pastebin highlights the relationship between technology and political change

October 10, 2011

Today’s New York Times has a must-read article by Noam Cohen about the role of Pastebin in Occupy Wall Street. Pastebin is a site that is primarily used by programmers; it’s a way to store, share and retrieve snippets of code. You might use Pastebin to share the script you wrote to insert a “Tweet [...]

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An open source bedtime story

February 3, 2010

Tonight my daughter, a.k.a. Little Sweetie, requested a bedtime story that was “more educational”. (Apparently she didn’t like my version of the Three Little Pigs, in which the Big Bad Wolf helps the pigs with their unwanted facial hair.) After trying her on the tragedy of the commons — my version stressed the importance of [...]

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