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I spent my winter break exploring China. It was a spectacular voyage—China is clearly undergoing a renaissance, and it’s an extraordinarily exciting place to be. But one thing that I noticed (more than I expected to) is that a tremendous number of Web sites are DNS banned by the “Great Firewall of China.”
For years, the US has complained about China’s restrictive freedom of the press and speech, and one of the most visible ways in which this occurs in modern society is through DNS filtering. Two bills being considered in Congress right now will empower the US to do, well, exactly that.
SOPA (and ProtectIP) are horrifyingly flawed bills in terms of freedom, justice, and business. Yet despite an outcry by the citizenry and many major Web sites going “dark” today in protest, they enjoy shocking levels of bipartisan support by Congress.
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Us design students have all seen the Objectified and Helvetica films. Turns out there’s a new film from the same creator called Urbanized, about the design of cities. Check out the Web site for local screenings and watch the trailer below:
I’ve written a new post on my transportation innovation blog about soliciting ideas from the public on the Internet about how to address structural issues. Check it out here.
For our ID core class “Observing Users,” we were asked to track the “life of an object” over the course of the day. I built a camera mount for my handlebars and screwed my Flip cam onto it. Here is the high-speed result, compressed down to 3 1/2 minutes.
Thanks to archive.org, it’s easy to take a look back in time on your internet presence.
I was a pretty hardcore geek as a kid. I programmed and published a bunch of Web sites starting in elementary school. My old America Online homepage is kind of hilarious now in retrospect:
So many cutting-edge 1990s web design elements on this page! The web rings, the embossed butons, the patterned sidebar, the guestbook, and the (broken) counter. And, of course, the recommendation to use “Netscape 2.0 or later” (best viewed with Netscape 4.0, of course.)
I took a bit of a cleaner (but still jarringly outdated) approach with the software company I launched when I was in middle school:
CenterNet is kind of a funny thing to think about now. Back in the 90s, you had to submit all of the URLs you created by hand to search engines in order for them to be indexed. It was a seriously tedious process—people regularly used dozens of different search engines in those days. CenterNet made things a bit easier, but thankfully, the idea is very antiquated now.
It’s also rather amazing to think about anyone listening to MIDI files as opposed to MP3s.
How times have changed!
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