"Nokia has no taste"
When Adam Greenfield, Nokia’s former head of design direction for user interfaces and services, quit the company in 2010 to set up his own design practice in New York, he made no secret of his frustrations with Nokia. In a long post on his blog, he outlines what problems Nokia faces. He says "there is nobody with any taste in the decision-making echelons at Nokia”, something which he notes is particularly ironic considering Finland’s wider reputation for style and innovative design culture. Coming from somebody who left the company last year, it carries weight.
http://gigaom.com/2011/02/21/former-nokia-designer-nokia-bosses-have-no-taste/
Puolusta maksutonta koulutusta!
Suomen ylioppilaskuntien liitto (SYL) ja Suomen ammattikorkeakouluopiskelijakuntien liitto (SAMOK) järjestävät suurmielenilmauksen maksuttoman koulutuksen puolesta. Paikalle on tulossa opiskelijoita ympäri Suomea. Jyväskylän yliopiston ylioppilaskunta (JYY) ja Jyväskylän ammattikorkeakoulun opiskelijakunta (JAMKO) järjestävät yhteistyössä jäsenistölleen bussikuljetuksen tapahtumaan. Lähde puolustamaan maksutonta koulutusta. Matkalla osallistutaan mielenosoitukseen ja piipahdetaan palatessa Ikeassa. Mielenosoituksen päätyttyä siirrytään Vantaan Ikeaan, josta lähdetään paluumatkalle. Edestakaisen matkan hinta on JYYn jäsenille 10 euroa.
How the West poisoned Bangladesh
Up to 20 million people in Bangladesh are at risk of suffering early deaths because of arsenic poisoning -- the legacy of a well-intentioned but ill-planned water project that created a devastating public health catastrophe. The World Health Organisation called it "the largest mass poisoning of a population in history."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/how-the-west-poisoned-bangladesh-1924631.html
I hate people
who go to Google every time instead of entering the address of the website they want to go to in the address field;
who design websites that require the visitor to type in "www" before the actual domain name; who always click twice, on any button or any shortcut, and always send the same email twice;who never pay any attention to the subject line in their emails, seldom related to what the subject of their email is;who add an extra space in front of the subject line of their email message;
who write the full content of their email message into the subject line;
who place two spaces after a full stop;
who use the acute accent in place of the apostrophe;
who do not realise that traffic in spiral staircases is left-hand;
who always press the traffic light button -- "just in case" -- even though a person on the other side has already done so;
who always stop their car on the crosswalk when waiting to turn, thus blocking pedestrians and cyclists;
who never stop their car when they see a pedestrian about the cross the road, regardless of what the law says.Please stop doing this. It is wrong.The Internet? Bah!
After two decades online, I am perplexed. It is not that I have not had a good time on the Internet. But today, I am uneasy about this trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries, and multimedia classrooms. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. Baloney. Consider today's online world. The Usenet allows anyone to post messages across the nation. Your word gets out; every voice can be heard cheaply and instantly. The result? Every voice is heard. The cacophany more closely resembles CB radio, complete with handles, harrasment, and anonymous threats. When most everyone shouts, few listen. How about electronic publishing? Try reading a book on disc. At best, it is an unpleasant chore: the glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you cannot tote that laptop to the beach. Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we will soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.
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