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Imagine a world where Steve Wozniak invented the first Apple while he was in high school. (Yes, I know he didn’t. But just play along.) Or how about a world where Mark Zukerberg developed Facebook in his off period between Home Economics and Gym class. (Again, just play along.) Now, imagine a world where the school district owned their inventions. Would we still have iPhones? Would people still be getting fired after posting pics to...
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Texas school principal shuts down entire cosmetology course to keep a gay man from taking it. Yep, everything is bigger in Texas. Even the bigotry. —- Click here to learn how you can help Jump to updates: Update #1 Update #2 Update #3 Update #4 Update #5 In case you live under a rock, or just someplace more enlightened than the backwoods armpit of America I call home, you might not be aware of what I’m going to talk about today....
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Today is Monday. It is also Valentine’s Day, which means the universe either really hates or totally adores single people. I’m undecided, but I’m pretty sure I’m off the hook, either way. Married people celebrate Valentine’s Day differently than other Facebook relationship statuses. We don’t go in for all the lovey-dovey stuff, choosing instead to quietly affirm our affections in private, more intimate...
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This entry originally appeared in The Beaumont Enterprise. The co-founder of PayPal wants your kids to drop out of college. Peter Thiel calls it “stopping out of school,” and he’s offering grants of up to $100,000 to try and persuade certain students not to bother with higher education. A generation of slackers with a Johnny BigBucks offering cash rewards for dropping out? What could possibly go wrong? Not that much,...
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This entry originally appeared in The Beaumont Enterprise. Kids today are growing up in a different world than their parents, which is a statement usually uttered at least seven quintillion times in every generation, but this time it’s at least mostly true. And it’s a problem. After watching The Facebook Movie The Social Network this weekend, I was reminded that, when it comes to the Intertubes, parents just don’t...
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Kristian Bland
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Occasional Geek
I'm a former Webmaster turned Journalist turned Systems Administrator. I once thought I could recreate Spider-Man's web fluid, but only ended up staining the driveway of my friend's parents when some of it spilled out and went runny. Eventually, I became a caustic tech geek, which I'm pretty sure inspired the character of Dr. Gregory House, although the bastards never credited me. Later in life, I'd go on to have a horrific experience in publishing that I don't talk about, except to talk about how I don't talk about it. Later still, I became a web editor and columnist for a Hearst newspaper, where I excelled at being Me until my entire department was unceremoniously laid off. After that, I spent about six months being pretty busy not being busy. It sucked. Then, after missing the light of my radiant glory casting its warmth upon the newsroom for long enough, the paper called me up and asked me back. So I went back. And then I left again. And here we are.
