Stop SOPA

Want a government firewall between you and the Internet?

Just like the one in China?

No? Then you need to help stop SOPA.

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American Censorship Day

Starting today Congress is holding hearings on creating an internet firewall like those in China, Syria, Iran and North Korea. The legislation is known as SOPA, the Stop Internet Piracy Act. It has lots of support in Congress because (surprise, surprise!) corporate interests have funneled millions of dollars to key Senators and Congressional Representatives. If [...]

Simple HTML Slides – Not Ready for Prime Time?

Christian Heilmann, one of the most persuasive of Mozilla’s evangelists for HTML5 wrote a blog post titled “Why I don’t write my slides in HTML.” It’s a good read. In it he provided a list of places where he sees HTML slide tools falling short. These days, Christian spends much of his life giving presentations [...]

Ink a Teacher!

“An apple for the teacher” is an old tradition in America that has fallen by the wayside. But doing a little something to show your children’s teachers that you appreciate their effort and understand the challenges they face is still worth the effort.

Rather than sending an apple for the teacher, I’d like to suggest [...]