Hacktivate
Listen to Gen Z Media - by Annika McKay By the end of this text, I hope to convince you to listen to Gen Z media.

Hacktivate: November 2005
churn out 12,000 babies a year with just four doctors. Malawi's maternal mortality rate is rising, according to the latest WHO report Malawi is the third highest in the world, and could be number one if it continues to increase. From Deb: i've been working in the labor and delivery suite, which consists of 15 or so beds, separated by flimsy plastic curtains, and a slew of nursing and clinical ...

Hacktivate: April 2012
Read ebooks hands free Every year for Christmas I try and make Claudia a Christmas present. Sometimes it's a big success (an old laptop I turned into a digital photoframe that shows local bus positions, bike share station status and more recently streaming video from our baby monitor) and sometimes less so (a fish scale modified to set off a buzzer when pulled too far that was supposed to ...

Hacktivate: June 2006
Under the hood of the hundred dollar laptop One of my favorite bloggers, Ethan Zuckerman wrote an in-depth review of the new one laptop per child. Frequent readers of my blog, know that I have an infinite appetite for information about ultra cheap world changing computing devices. There is some interesting geeky stuff in here about flash disk file systems, power consumption, hinge design, and ...

Hacktivate: March 2011
As soon as Team OSY arrived at La Jolla Canyon the group sprung into action packing gourmet food, bouquets of flowers, a table, coolers, chairs, a guitar, a computer, some speakers and more. Knowing that the von der Ohe family was hot on the trail they double timed it up 3 miles or so of steep and narrow terrain. Heroic efforts were par for the day, but my sherpa friends could have brought the ...

Hacktivate: April 2005
None of them are, and that is the point. You have to sort of toss it around in your head, think about people you've dealt with who've said one thing and done another, and then try to come to some answer. Chances are that few will agree in their interpretations, an outcome

Hacktivate: January Issue of Wired - vdomck.org
January Issue of Wired I love Wired. Most of the articles eventually come out online, but there is something special about the glossy over size pages full of glitzy geekporn. Gadgets, graphics and games all meant to entice geeks to upgrade. One of my favorite computer science professors at UCLA told us that Wired should be required reading for every IT professional. He went on to say that the ...

Hacktivate: A better mousetrap
A better mousetrap I love the simplicity of this: More info here

Hacktivate: Not the only guy from Reno in subsaharan Africa
Not the only guy from Reno in subsaharan Africa I have been to a number of countries and on the road you always run into people with whom you share some sort of connection: "Oh, my inlaws are from Stuttgart... I went to UCLA too... We lived in Oxford for over three years" and so on. But it is quite rare to meet someone from Reno, let alone Nevada. I think there is less propensity for ...

Hacktivate: May 2009 - vdomck.org
James Bartholomew who wrote a book called, "The Welfare State We're In", was speaking. Michael Tanner from the Cato Institute (== Libertarian) was moderating and Dr. Wendell Primus, the Senior Policy Advisor on Budget and Health Issues to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (== Democrat) was there to provide an alternative view. In many ways this was my first exposure to DC politics (even though the author ...

Hacktivate: April 2009
The segregation and poverty of the American inner-city ghetto is no accident but the inevitable product of the racism of our history. From the Sundown Towns that forcibly evicted their black (and sometimes Chinese or even Jewish) residents in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to the increasing apartheid of the twenty-first century American public school system, structural ...