A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Over the past six months I have drastically cut down on my personal posessions. I moved to Boston in June with a suitcase and a backpack. Since then I have had two smallish boxes of clothes shipped from back home (it’s getting cold).
And you know what? I don’t miss hardly anything.
Long-time OLPC contributor Todd Kelsey recently submitted a proposal to the Knight Grant Challenge and has made it through to the second round! This is great news for Todd and for OLPC, because Todd’s project is about expanding journalism, writing and community around OLPC deployments.
Quoth Todd:
I didn’t know that this was a real site. But blogs.com is real (they do exist!), and they just made an amazing post/update about OLPC. They covered just about everything that’s been happening lately.
They mentioned the OLPC Blog, G1G1, the new G1G1 FAQ, Amazon, SWIFT and Google, the manual and (the amazing) Anne Gentle’s work on the manual.
Crazy stuff. It’s pretty rare to see something so well researched on the web.
+1 Blogs.com
Nice, we’re finally setting up a blog for OLPC:
We need guest posts! Please help! (email sj at laptop dot org with posts)
And now David is going to sing us a song…
Actually this is the part where Harvard wont let me EMBED ANYTHING ON THIS BLOG.
1.) Floss Manuals mini-store:
.js was stripped out auto-magically, and could not import .css
2.) Berkman wont let me embed YouTube in my blog.
Ok, a little tacky maybe. But seriously. C’mon Harvard!
“It’s an education project, not a genetic engineering project.” - Dr. Ian Malcolm.
Mission Statement: To increase the Darwinian fitness of the world’s poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-energy, internet-enabled velociraptor with content designed for collaborative, practical, self-empowered survival
Those crazy Olin kids… Go check out www.velociraptorz.org/ and buy a t-shirt.
Now, I haven’t actually used Windows on XO for more than a few seconds. There are something like three at the OLPC offices AFAIK. But with the announcement of a viable form of XP on the XO the blogosphere has had a field day. CNET has finally posted a reasonable, if non-technical, side by side comparison of the two versions of the machine. The results in the actual article are fairly ambiguous, but blogs, both secular and FOSS have decried that kids prefer Sugar over XP.
But more surprisingly, the great majority of blogs about the subject have been in Espanol.
The popular turn-based strategy game, Battle for Wesnoth, has been bundled and customized for the XO. It’s pretty big at 77mb, but it’s a great game and I’m very happy to see it as an activity on the XO. Thank you Jeremy Visser!
Oh man, what’s the name of that day coming up? I wasn’t supposed to forget it. November 6th? Was that it? Something about Treason and Gunpowder…
Ah yes.
Remember, Remember,
the Fifth of November,
the Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot.I know of no reason,
the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Where will you be?
Want to roast mini-marshmallows over candle flames in harvard square instead?
