Reading The Circle by Dave Eggers made me want to puke. My nausea was not induced by graphic violence or other gross descriptions. I was sickened by Eggers' detailed descriptions of a dystopia that felt too real. The Circle is not about your typical dystopia where water, gas, and other resources are scarce and people kill … Continue reading Book review: The Circle by Dave Eggers made me want to puke (in a good way)
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They used to burn books. Now they throttle bandwidth. I remember when the entire Internet used to be slow. Not just parts. Or at least it felt slow as its bits and bytes and packets tried to squeeze through a loudly beeping 2400 baud modem. When I got my first 56K modem it seemed lightning fast. I was … Continue reading What would the Internet be like without net neutrality?
Girls are underrepresented in STEM fields, but how can we get more girls interested in science, technology, engineering, and math? To date many STEM education initiatives have taken the sex ed approach. Girls are isolated from the boys and given their own, gender-specific, introduction to coding, building, and problem solving. The intentions are good, but … Continue reading STEM education for girls: Too little, too late, too pink
This Mad Men finale post doesn't contain any spoilers. If you are looking for a plot recap of the Mad Men finale for season 6 "In Care Of" there are plenty of other places you can look. (Of course, I especially recommend you read Tom & Lorenzo's Mad Style post on Wednesday.) This is not a … Continue reading Mad Men finale: Online streaming saved me from spoilers
Old technology made big news recently when an Apple-1 computer sold for the equivalent of more than $500,000. The Apple-1 came out in 1976, which was just a few years before my parents bought our first home computer although ours was not an Apple. My first computer was a TRS-80, a computer brand from Radio … Continue reading A gallery of old technology: Do you remember TRS-80?
Kim Z. Dale 