Month: December 2011
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Thoughts on Path
I signed up for Path last year when they launched. It was an odd product at the time because you were limited to 10 friends on the social network. Intriguing, but it didn't really go anywhere. I posted a while but then drifted away. Last month they relaunched with an updated app and a different…
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A Bitter Harvest: California, Marijuana, and the New Jim Crow
I highly recommend listening to this radio show exploring themes of racism, drugs and legal disenfranchisement. The discussion centers around California marijuana growing and the apparent inequities between white pot farmers and and widespread incarceration of African-American men throughout America. It’s a thoughtful discussion and one worthy of hearing and considering, particularly for white Americans. The…
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Apple Photo Stream Should Be Simple, Right?
It's taken a month or two of tinkering, and I think I finally have an understanding of how the Photo Stream works. Like other Apple products I've experienced in the past, this was perhaps too simple for my mind to grasp. The first challenge arose when I tried to delete a picture from the Photo…