Dylan Tweney

School trains children to be employees and consumers; teach your own to be leaders and adventurers: Against School – John Taylor Gatto (2003 Harper’s article, as good as ever)

What Winer doesn’t seem to get is that Dvorak is an entertainer: Scripting News: Dvorak “on record as a self-declared troll”

Differentiation through a REALLY BIG FONT: Big.com: The Most Readable Results on the Web

Stephen Hawking says we need space colonies in case we Earthlings wipe ourselves out. Guy’s gotta point: Hawking: Space key to human survival – Jun 14, 2006

Stevie Wonder plays Sesame Street, 1972. Can’t help but thinking that kids’ music was way better in the 1970s! (via tuberaider)

Clara’s latest obsession is the Magnetic Fields song “The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side,” which also happens to be my favorite. She heard the very beginning of it yesterday, just as I was switching it off, and demanded to hear the whole thing. Then she listened to it a few times. Last night […

Outstanding music podcast: 30 minutes of cover songs, about 3x/week, usually on a theme (Bob Dylan’s birthday, Smiths covers, etc): Coverville Even better: All the songs are legally licensed, which means the musicians get paid. Cool!

1. It’s a complicated issue. A really complicated technical issue. The simplistic rhetoric of “demanding that ISPs treat all traffic equally” is a nonstarter, because ISPs have never done that. Peering arrangements, cacheing networks like Akamai, even the fact that you can get slow DSL for an averag

The free Democracy Player from the Participatory Culture Foundation is a slick tool for finding and downloading Internet videos. Unlike, say, YouTube, you don’t have to sit around and wait for a semi-crappy video to buffer before you watch it. Instead, you browse through single videos or channels th

Hey, kids, it’s Digg for girls! BlinkList | Your personal start page and social bookmarking engine

Like BASIC, PHP will destroy your future as a programmer (and I should know; I programmed in BASIC as a kid and all I can deal with is PHP now): Why the light has gone out on LAMP

I’m at risk of getting a reputation for pissing on Web 2.0, but here goes. The problem with “microformats,” which Technorati is pushing pretty hard, is that they seem to be no more than poorly implemented metadata standards. Take the rel=tag specification, for instance. This is a snippet of code you