Built on Sand: “Wherever we go, we’re surrounded by sand. It’s in the floors beneath us, walls around us and ceilings above us, plus the sidewalks and roads we use to get from place to place. Sand is a key ingredient in concrete, asphalt, and glass, not to mention the silicon chips inside our phones and computers. It is an essential component of modern life as we know it, yet, strangely enough, we are starting to run out.” 99percentinvisible.org/episode/b…
RIP Rip Torn: Actor’s actor, political activist, badass boingboing.net/2019/07/0…
IBM Builds Telco Muscle With $34B Red Hat Acquisition: IBM sees its combination with Red Hat as enabling a full virtualization stack for service providers, from infrastructure to OSS and everything in between. My latest on Light Reading. www.lightreading.com/cloud/ibm…
“Draw me like one of your French girls.”
USA’s formidable women’s team is no accident. It’s a product of public policy [Moira Donegan/The Guardian]
… title IX effectively turned the American education system into the world’s most successful women’s sporting development organization. The success story of women’s sports under title IX shows how marginalized groups can be given opportunities through policy interventions; how the talents and passions of individuals can be fostered when they have institutional support.
Greg McVerry: “Find a passion, start a blog.” Or you can just do what I do and post whatever pops into your head wherever you can find a text box on the web.
Pratik talks about taking photos on vacation, blogging in a post-Facebook world, and inability to do the Vulcan “Live Long and Prosper” salute.