CivicActions

This article
via Yahoo provides a nice glimpse into how "user-friendly" a police state can be. The cartoon images are scary to me, not cute, since they could mean death.

I know that some programmer is happy to have some income and add that to his portfolio, and the Chinese are showing us that it's ok - no, really - it is ok ... OBEY. So, the Chinese police are being open about how they violate your privacy. That's nice.

I´ll be traveling for a bit, and I thought it may be interesting to explain how to work remotely without having to carry your laptop.

The node review module is quite handy, but I've been developing another module for one of our projects.

Do you like Drupal's hook functionality?
Maybe this jQuery extension could serve as a way to replicate that that functionality. Currently I use the extension below to allow the extension of existing libraries I've written.

Let's say in your library you write :

  if (confirmed){
    $('#css-id').hide(
      function(){
         $.hookExecute('css_id_hidden');
      }
    );
  }

One function in a new libarary could write

  function css_id_hidden(){
    alert('Hidden!');
  }
  

New York City's "Plan NYC - 2030" is a project with which my father had some early involvement. Check out New York City's awesome efforts to envision an environmentally sustainable future, with happy, open spaces for people.

The Plan:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/planyc2030/html/plan/plan.shtml

Home Page:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/planyc2030/html/home/home.shtml

Running on a custom GNU/Linux platform, the One Laptop per Child program came to Uruguay in this article carried by Yahoo.

The computers are designed for children, boast extremely low electricity consumption, a pulley for hand-generated power, 1 gigabyte of flash memory, built-in wireless networking and a screen with indoor and outdoor reading modes.

The Encyclopedia of Life (or EOL) is a collaborative Web 3.0 site in which all life will be cataloged with data collected by cell phones, other websites, researchers, and has a cool interface. Our project for the Witness Video Hub, The National Information Network for Artists, and our TOPP project all have similar features.!!

If you had a MySpace account, who would be your friends? I don't mean human friends, I mean non-human friends.

Many people, about 860 according to this article have chosen cheese to be their friend. That's great, but I think the TOPP Turtles of the Great Turtle Race deserve more love. Nothing against cheese.

Help the turtles be more popular than cheese!

Befriend :

"One bad Apple can spoil the bunch". With Apple being good, is one good Apple enough?

Leadership is inspiring. Apple and Sir Jobs are to be congratulated. Changing momentum is difficult within the current economic, governmental, and cultural conflicts defining our generation.

CivicActions is happy for its work with Ben Nowack, who has
been named "Invited Expert" of the W3C, the MIT associated group
which maintains web standards around things like XML, HTML, and CSS!
Ben will be enhancing some of his Open Source software called ARC for his company SemSol, which we use in some of our projects.