No maps for these territories

Apparently one of my credit card numbers was stolen last month. That puts the bottle of “natural male potency enhancer” that I got in the mail the other day in a whole new light — I thought it was simply a prank that one of my friends pulled, but now I am thinking that it’s [...]

Good: Holiday weekend! Bad: Memorial Day already ohcrapohdearohnoes not enough time to finish conference planning ahhh Good: lovely weather! Bad: it is teh hot out (for just about the first time this year, shockingly), and I am not handling it very well. Hello, sweat and headaches and lethargy and air conditioning bills, I did not [...]

I haven’t yet read it … but Jessica Parker’s book Teaching Tech-Savvy Kids: Bringing Digital Media Into the Classroom, Grades 5-12 came out this month. Geared at educators, Parker’s book and online community is about how young people use social media and how to understand and help them with it. Here’s the table of contents: [...]

N.b.: blog comments are still broken here at No Maps. Open-source software doesn’t fix anything if you don’t know how to use it! N.b.2: post updated with a correction, & language clarified. __________________________ Today is the Day Against DRM, the Free Software Foundation (FSF)’s Defective by Design campaign day of action.  DRM stands for “digital [...]