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What About Those "Tomorrow's User Interface" Posts?

 Beth Kanter wondered about that in her weekly roundup of the nptech tag stream on the NetSquared blog. I attempted to answer: It's an open-ended question in a series of weekend user interface posts where I've been toying with the interconnected issues of how users and technology relate to one another ... 

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10:20 AM Dec 14, 2006 - 17 comments permalink

$5 Million Grant - Turn On-line Ideas into Real World Results

 The Knight Brothers foundation is awarding $5 million in grants for projects that will "improve the flow of information and news in the public interest." Individuals, organizations and businesses that demonstrate how their ideas will transform community life are encouraged to apply. This could be an interesting opportunity for the progressive nonprofit tech community -- if you've got a toe in the news-breaking or -management field, your fundraising team will love you for this last minute grant opportunity before the holidays!  

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09:36 AM Dec 14, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

DIA's Alternative Gift Giving Guide

 Hmmm, what to get your pals for the holidays? I present to you:

DIA's Alternative Gift Giving Guide


Get something cool this year—there are plenty of organizations selling interesting merchandise Democracy. It's a Gorgeous Thing. Check out the MMob's democracy-inspired holiday gift ideas. Be a PEER Undercover Activist, with shorts to match. Get the War Tapes DVD from IAVA. ASAP. Do you stand on the side of love? Prove it with a UUA T-shirt. Order the DVD that shows the solution to our healthcare mess From Violence To Wholeness, in paperback. Are you for Safe Access? Get the gear.  

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02:46 PM Dec 13, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

And He Was Once Considered Presidential Timber

 Lame duck nuthin': Macaca checks out for the holidays. (Link)  

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10:04 AM Dec 12, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

Pinochet Cheats the Hangman

 General Augusto Pinochet paid much-belated homage to International Human Rights Day by following into the clay the lately deceased consiglieres of reaction, Milton Friedman and Jeane Kirkpatrick, who preached the catechisms on whose behalf the General wielded the terrible temporal authority. Three such dead within a month will test Ammit's digestion, but it is also the same month the pink tide swept Ecuador and restored their old adversary Ortega in Nicaragua. They escaped justice in this world. Let Chavez write their epitaph.  

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01:04 AM Dec 11, 2006 - 14 comments permalink

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