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Issue #6
March 31st 2009
Plants And Bodies
Twice Monthly Mixtape by Jesse Alejandro
Trevor Wilson gives us his latest album for download including protools session files for four of the tracks.
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Frameworks, Idioms, and Idiots
This Month in Code by Joshua Clayton
Joshua Clayton examines the upshot of using framework syntax in place of actually learning Javascript, and asks us to stop being lazy.
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Introducing GenevaJS
This Month in Code by Rick Waldron
Rick waldron walks us through the first set of functions in the upcoming Javascript meta library for using Prototype and jQuery together.
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Creator of Obama “Hope” Poster Challenges AP Copyright
By Jonathan Hunter
Jonathan Hunter brings us up to speed on the Shepard Fairey's response to the Associated Press, and makes a case for sharing.
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Putting the Kaibosh on IE6
This Month in Code by Boaz Sender
Boaz sender walks us through serving a message to visitors based on their browser version.
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Anatomy of a jQuery Plugin
This Month in Code by Thomas Steinmetz
Thomas Steinmetz walks us through building a jQuery plugin with the example of a tabbed navigation and gives us the final product to download.
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Forgiving Student Loan Debt
This Month in Politics by Jacob Perkins
Jacob Perkins explores alternative solutions to our economic trouble including the cancelation of student loan debt.
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Hackers of the Free Software Movement
This Month in Network by Patrick Davison
Patrick Davison reports on Wintercamp 2009 and the Floss Open Source Manuals group he attended with.
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Music Is Free
This Month in Network by Justina White
Justina White makes the case for the freeness of music, offering an alternative revenue model to recording artists.
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Hip Hop Vector Art
This Month in Vector Packs by Billy Nunez
Billy Nunez gives us a set of hip hop vectors he put together for this issue of the html times.
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My Dell Latitude D600
This Month in Prose by Michael Winward
Michael Winward gives us a short story about the character of his Dell Latitude D600.
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Issue #5
February 9th 2009
Ear To The Grindstone
Twice Monthly Mixtape by Jesse Alejandro
Jesse Bartlett-Webber gives us his inspired opus for download, and Jesse reviews the compositions.
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CC at Harvard Cyber Law
This Month in Network by Justina White
Contributing Editor Justina White Summarizes the recent Creative Commons Founders panel held at Harvard Cyber-Law Berkman Center for Internet.
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jQuery Chat Client
This Month in Code by Thomas Steinmetz
Thomas Steinmetz gives away his jQuery chat client completer with buddy, session and transcript management.
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Van Jones and the Green New Deal
This Month in Politics by Jacob Perkins
Jacob Perkins Interview's Social Activist Van Jones about socioeconomic inequalities in the environmentalist movement, and his role consulting the new administration's transition team.
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Chris Messina and Identity in the Newtork
This Month in Cross Domain by Boaz Sender
Boaz Sender Interviews Open Source Evangelist Chris Messina about the philosophy behind and practicalities involved in building an Open Stack.
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Cross Domain XMLHttpRequest
This Month in Cross Domain by Sam Clearman
Sam Clearman discusses two techniques for circumventing cross domain JavaScript restrictions on XMLHttpRequest in the same origin policy.
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RIAA Takes Aim at Harvard Professor
This month in Network by Jonathan Hunter
Jonathan Hunter catches us up on the RIAA’s latest attacks on free information exchange and the Harvard Law professor who tried to intervene.
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Printing Blogs
This Month in Network by Daniel Grossman
Daniel Grossman takes a quick look at the new Boston based Printed Blog, a freely circulated blogroll in print.
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Better than Drugs
This Month in Network by Keith Hendershot
Keith Hendershot shares a list of nine spin y ideas so far out there, they're better than drugs.
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Issue #4
November 26th 2008
Most Valuable Player
Twice Monthly Mixtape by Jesse Alejandro
Nat Baldwin gives us his newest album, Most Valuable Player, for download and Jesse Alejandro reviews the bass-infused tracks.
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Ownership and a DRM World
This Month in Network By Justina White
Justina White asks what ownership really means when it comes to DRM-locked digital media. Do you actually own your music in the full sense of the word if you can't use it as you like?
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Presenters in Ruby on Rails Applications
This Month in Code by Joshua Clayton
Joshua Clayton discusses his use of Presenters, and gives us an demo application to play with the concepts.
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Of White Whales and Dark Energies
This month in history by Dylan Thuras
Featuring Cannibalism, Whale Attacks, Mustaches, Physics Jokes, Doughnuts, Sperm Jokes, Shrinking Space Men, the Weird History of the Ether, and Exploding Stars…
How to Make Barack Obama Keep His Promises
This Month in Politics by Justin Boland
The online organizing and social networking that engineered Barack Obama's rise to the White House wasn't just an expensive tool, it was a culture. A culture of people who are motivated, informed and demanding, and a culture that will turn on Obama once they suspect they've been used.
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Obama Biden Transition Project and Cluen
This Month in Politics by Ari Herzog
Ari Herzog rips through layers of .gov and .org transitional websites, asks why government data is being hosted on private sector servers, and calls for greater transparency in the Obama Biden Transition Project.
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Change.gov
This Month in Politics by Jacob Perkins
Jacob Perkins discusses the implications of an online presidency @ Change.gov, the Obama administration's official transition Web site.
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Open Source Debugger
This week's programmer comic by Rick Waldron
Check out the new and improved A.Unit debugging software.
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Issue #3
November 4th 2008
Go Back Where We Began?
Twice Monthly Mixtape by Jesse Alejandro
Karl gives out samples and Protools files newest album for download, and Jesse reviews of this jazz-infused, mutlifarious Brooklyn-based band.
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Turing Test & Machine Intelligence
This Month in Network By Dylan ThurasDylan Thuras introduces us to computer science great Alan Turing, the Turing test, and six Artificial Intelligence Entities that are trying to fool you into thinking they are human. Read more …
Intellectual Property Act 2008
This Month in Network By Justina WhiteJustina White explores what the signing of the Pro-IP Act means for you and wonders what she'd do with $435 million. Read more …
PHP Photo Uploader
This Month in Code by Thomas Steinmetz
Thomas Steinmetz shows us how to create a simple photo uploader with basic permissions for different users and gallery using php and lightbox js.
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Mapping Cyberspace Onto Actual Space
This Month in Network By Keith Hendershot
Keith Hendershot muses on geolocative technology, science fiction, and RFID as he walks us through a brief history of cyberspace, from what it meant in the 80s to what it means now.
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Android Google Phone From T-Mobile
This Month in Tech by Dick Clarke
Dick Clark hasn't put his G1 down for 12 days. Read his review of the first Android phone, from HTC and T-Mobile.
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National Video web log Posting Month
This Month in Video Blogging by Ryanne Hodson
Ryanne Hodson gears up for National Video web blog Posting Month 2008 (NaVloPoMo for those of you in the know).
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Obama Hippies
This Month in Politics by Jacob Perkins
Jacob Perkins finds that his past life with Phish has much more in common with his present life on the Obama campaign than he would have ever imagined.
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Issue #2
October 15th 2008
War Elephant
Twice Monthly Mixtape By Jesse Alejandro
Deer Tick gives out their newest album for download, and Jesse Alejandro dines his way through it, introducing us to this alt-country rock band from Providence.
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The Internet As Desktop
This Month in Network By Boaz Sender
Boaz Sender examines one of the latest moves towards internet as operating system and walks through setting up Gears and Fluid to make web applications behave like they were desktop applications.
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Custom Attributes
This Month in Code By Rick Waldron
Rick Waldron explores the semantic and procedural benefits of custom HTML tag attributes in JavaScript applications as he passes through Connecticut on his way down to New York.
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Vote Builder and Google Earth
This Month in Politics By Jacob Perkins Oct. 15th 2008
Full-time Obama volunteer Jacob Perkins updates us on the campaign in VA and the database Vote Builder.
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Rural But Decent Parts
This Month in Prose By Jaye Bartell
Jaye Bartell tells us about his experience baring it all to an unlikely audience in rural Appalachia.
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Only The Men Have Memory
This Month in Prose By Patrick Davison
Patrick Davison's humorous and detailed info-graphic schematic of a neighborhood shows us that we can represent far more than electrical input and output with diagrams.
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Your Presidential Choice
This Month in Politics By Dick Clark
Dick Clark gives us a lesson in economics and why neither of the two candidates is actually the candidate for change.
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Swing States
This Month in Politics By Ryanne Hodson
Ryanne Hodson's tells us how information culled from voter databases helped her overcome her fear of canvassing.
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Issue #1
October 1st 2008
Nothing New Has Ever Begun
Twice Monthly Mixtape By Jesse Alejandro
“The Coyotes” give out Pro Tools session files from their new album for download, and Jesse Alejandro introduces us to this intriguing, genre-bending Seattle band.
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IP Censorship in Beijing
This Month in Network By Ryanne Hodson
Ryanne Hodson’s first-hand account of internet censorship & police intimidation in Beijing, China during the 2008 Olympics. Read more …
The Fattening of the Client
This Month in Network By Sam Clearman
Why every developer needs to brush up on his Javascript right now—
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Presidential Internet
This Month in Politics by Jacob Perkins
Jacob Perkins explores how Obama and McCain use network technology in their presidential campaigns and breaks down their respective technology platforms.
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Is the Free Encyclopedia a Democratic Encyclopedia?
This Month in Politics by Dick Clark
Dick Clark's crash course on the political philosophy of democracy, the history of Wikipedia, and why a democratic encyclopedia should not be (and is not) the goal.
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Black Hole Kills Programmer
This week's programmer comic by Rick Waldron
A progammer dies by way of the Swiss black hole
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Under the Hood Of BandCamp
This Month in Review by Sam Clearman
Serial software developer Joe Holt talks to Sam Clearman about his newest project, BandCamp: the website for bands and their music that finds a new revenue model for the record industry.
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Editing In Place With Prototype
This Month in Code by Thomas Steinmetz
Resident programmer Thomas Steinmetz walks us through the cleanest, driest, and most direct method for editing in place with Prototype.
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HTML Special Characters Reference
This Month in Code by Boaz Sender
A simple quick cheat sheet for special typographical characters.
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