Feb 21 2008
Websites that I have found to be interesting lately
Today’s theme is developed country, mostly majority population folks:
Obsolete Skills
As in, skills that most people in said country don’t do anymore. At a quick glance, between geekiness and Mongolia, they’re not so obsolete. Well, the geek ones include using PASCAL, Zmodem to transfer files, editing autoexec.bat files and the Mongolia ones include replace shoe heels, washing clothes (with a washboard), whipping cream (hah!) with a whisk, writing email whilst offline then going online to send.
Stuff White People Like
From what I gather, this site can be somewhat offensive, but I am more amused than anything else. There are similar, if not as overt, generalizations about minorities, women, gay people, etc., and while people sometimes call em out on it, generally it slides. Sucks to be stereotyped, doesn’t it?
Feynman on engineering and software design as relates to the Challenger explosion
Kinda lightweight for interest in coding, but can be a good “I-told-you-so” moment for that non-IT supervisor and why robustness and planning is a big-ass deal.
Requiem for a TV News Career
Ah, media.
Unrelated to these links, I went outside without my hat yesterday and only felt a slight radiating of heat loss rather than the heat being violently sucked away from my head. And I saw ice melting and some buds on trees. Woo!
