It’s absurd to expect every piece of black art to reflect everyone’s black experience, but that’s exactly what many black artists are expected to do. This discourages black artists from taking the kind of risks that make what they’re creating worth consuming, because unless you want to draw someone’s ire for “making black people look [...] [Posted: 16 Dec 2009]
The truth is, Italians have long since recognized the unreliability and compromised nature of their courts. At the moment, the Italian public’s trust in the justice system is at an all-time low. According to a November poll by Euromedia research group, only 16 percent of Italians fully trust it; just two years ago, the figure [...] [Posted: 16 Dec 2009]
I did not see myself as an African in those books. I took sides with the white men against the savages. In other words, I went through my first level of schooling thinking I was of the party of the white man in his hair-raising adventures and narrow escapes. The white man was good and [...] [Posted: 15 Dec 2009]
In a part of the agreement that was not announced, Yahoo also intends to tap Facebook user data to place display ads more relevant to individuals on its own pages, according to a source familiar with the plan. In theory, this means advertisers will soon be able to pay Yahoo to get ads in front [...] [Posted: 15 Dec 2009]
With little fanfare, Google made its personalized search system the default this week. Whereas searchers had the option of turning on this feature before, now users’ search histories are automatically factored into the engine’s mysterious algorithm. This means that results users actually click on after a particular search will be ranked higher in subsequent searches [...] [Posted: 11 Dec 2009]
I love black women always Disrespect ain’t the way Let’s start our family today Hip-hop hooray! — Treach from Naughty By Nature’s “Hip-Hop Hooray.” Naughty By Nature is performing at Atlanta’s Luckie Lounge tonight. V-103 played this song this morning. Aside: We sure wore some ugly sh*t in the 1990s. [Posted: 11 Dec 2009]
*She* graduated. Flickr photo by m00by “The conventional wisdom is that students leave school because they aren’t willing to work hard and aren’t really interested in more education,” said Jean Johnson, executive vice president of Public Agenda. “What we found was almost precisely the opposite. Most work and go to school at the same time, [...] [Posted: 10 Dec 2009]
I know it’s hard to believe for some, but American or shall I say, Western values aren’t celebrated by the entire world. And just because we think something is wrong doesn’t give us the right to go butting into how other countries choose to govern. Had we learned that lesson a long time ago, perhaps [...] [Posted: 10 Dec 2009]
Firefox 3.6 supports multiple file input. This new capability allows you to get several files as input at once, using standard technologies. This is a big improvement, since you used to be constrained to one file at a time, or needed to use a third party (proprietary) application. This will be particularly useful, for example, [...] [Posted: 10 Dec 2009]
Web applications should have the ability to manipulate as wide as possible a range of user input, including files that a user may wish to upload to a remote server or manipulate inside a rich web application. This specification defines the basic representations for files, lists of files, errors raised by access to files, and [...] [Posted: 10 Dec 2009]