The Daily Bendiken
May 09
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Dec 24
Send a Christmas card to Gottfrid Svartholm Warg
Dec 18
2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Autumn 2012
Nov 25
Two misfits walk into a bar…
Nov 24
An-Cat, a heroine in the upcoming Voluntaryist comic series
Nov 19
Byzantium Security: elite protection for the world’s elite
Nov 17
20 years later, and all these gadgets now fit into your pocket
Nov 11
Snow Warrior: Mi’kmaq warrior and former US Marine sniper Danny Boy Stephens
Nov 07
Gold price versus USD monetary base, 2008-2012
Nov 06
Voting: the slave’s suggestion box
The Vote for Nobody campaign
Nov 04
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You can easily find a list of major characters in this book [but] odds-on they wont mention the star of the show: The Primer. Oh, the Primer! Oh, sweet bejesus, the Primer! I wish I had a Primer as a child. I wish I had a Primer now, to give to my son. The Primer is perfect. It’s like a fully formed idea you were already aware of, that hadn’t been articulated yet. It was on the tip of my tongue – now I know what it’s called: the Primer! The Primer is perfect. It is what everyone who’s banged their head on the desk through educational software wishes it was, and then some.
I could read a whole encyclopedia about Nell’s lessons with the Primer – then go back in time, finish my AI design degree and devote my life to making the Primer a reality. Everything else in this book is window dressing (fascinating, imaginative, playful, funny, adventurous and evocative window dressing, for sure).
Oct 31
“ Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, found the on-off switch … powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child, per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs in the village, and within five months, they had hacked Android.
— Nicholas Negroponte, regarding OLPC tablets dropped off in illiterate Ethiopian villages, without instructions
Oct 23
The solution to oversleeping?
