Aiming for a more equal (more just) society.
Yup. That's it.
Some more info, should you want more than just my say so on that...
And you can find lots more from
Headquarters for the authors and the movement is at "The Equality Trust"
And yes, there are naysayers. Read em all! I can tell you which side I find more common sense and more believable.
So, as I stepped back into a coding role (software developer here) I knew I didn't want to spend 8+ hours each day sitting in a chair.
More specifically, my own physiology has been changing and I'd feel it at the end of the day. In my hips, knees and back, I'd have pains after sitting all day writing software.
For me, then, the answer was to stand UP!
Stuff
At home, this just meant setting my laptop on a box or anything else convenient and stable
Once starting at Dark Horse Comics in the Fall (2010), I mentioned that it's something I'd like to do, and "could you help me with this"? I'm really grateful that Marty Carter here found me an Anthro Cart that had been abandoned and was in storage. That's the two-level desk you see to the left in the picture. I just put my monitor on a big box (filled with packing peanuts for stability). I use the Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad so i can easily shift to sitting mode. Takes less than 2 minutes to slide over to sitting down.
In Action
What I can't easily show is how it feels.
I actually move almost all the time. Programming isn't primarily typing. It's reading thinking (a lot!) and then typing before observing the outcome (tests run, builds, etc) so... any time my hands aren't on keyboard or mouse, my legs are moving, shifting weight back and forth, bending and walking around. You'll be surprised, once you try it, just how much you move. And yes, even while coding.
Okay, likely to say this in longer form later, but...
I think the main image to carry, when starting as the new coder in an existing, high-functioning development team, is this....
You're a five year old and you walk up to the already spinning carousel in the playground
You run around and keep trying to jump on, but whatever it is that's spinning that carousel is doing their job well. :) Ya kinda have to keep running and hope that you eventually hit a velocity that will let you join the team at speed.
"love it when the qa pass tell me our software rocks and there are no problems to report doesn't happen often."Which led him to pen this lyric...(Led Zep folksy strum)I went to QA Pass with my parcel of code,
Every news source has its bias, and that is especially true for political news. The same story on the Huffington Post is more likely to have a liberal slant than something on Fox News. Most people figure out which news sources share political views and settle on a few which make them feel comfortable. For those who have trouble identifying left from right, there is now FairSpin, a site that looks like it just launched today.
FairSpin takes the most buzzed about news stories from memeorandum (the sister site to Techmeme, but for politics), and lays them out on a page literally from left to right. The Huffington Post, Talking Points memo, and Washington Monthly stories are on the left. The Washington post and New York Times stories are in the middle. And the Wall Street Journal Op-ed and Fox News stories are on the right.
If you don't agree with this pacement, then you can vote on any story, indicating whether you think it's bias is left-leaning, right-leaning, or "fair." (I am not sure whether a neutral leaning is more fair than any other, or simply wishy-washy). When you click through to a story, it presents it under a toolbar (yes, yet another frame) with its own shortened URL, which lets you cast your vote and return easily to FairSpin. For instance, this link http://fairspin.org/read/5093 takes you to a Michelle Malkin post. (This doesn't work for New York Times articles, however, because it has disabled such toolbars and non-redirecting URL shorteners after the whole Diggbar controversy).
FairSpin shows you your voting history, as well as the community's, and allows you to hide "highly-biased" stories. It neatly lays out visually what many readers already know, but is a helpful filter nonetheless. Just ignore the side which offends you the most.
The site was developed by Stephen Hood, who until recently ran Delicious for Yahoo, and Dave Baggeroer, a designer. You can read more about it on their blog.
Stephen Hood most recently ran the social bookmarking service Delicious at Yahoo. Based on this experience Stephen is a big believer in the power of the community to organize information and accomplish goals, and sees an opportunity to mobilize readers to identify bias in the news. Dave Baggeroer
Every news source has its bias, and that is especially true for political news. The same story on the Huffington Post is more likely to have a liberal slant than something on Fox News. Most people figure out which news sources share political views and settle on a few which make them feel comfortable. For those who have trouble identifying left from right, there is now FairSpin, a site that looks like it just launched today.
FairSpin takes the most buzzed about news stories from memeorandum (the sister site to Techmeme, but for politics), and lays them out on a page literally from left to right. The Huffington Post, Talking Points memo, and Washington Monthly stories are on the left. The Washington post and New York Times stories are in the middle. And the Wall Street Journal Op-ed and Fox News stories are on the right.
If you don't agree with this pacement, then you can vote on any story, indicating whether you think it's bias is left-leaning, right-leaning, or "fair." (I am not sure whether a neutral leaning is more fair than any other, or simply wishy-washy). When you click through to a story, it presents it under a toolbar (yes, yet another frame) with its own shortened URL, which lets you cast your vote and return easily to FairSpin. For instance, this link http://fairspin.org/read/5093 takes you to a Michelle Malkin post. (This doesn't work for New York Times articles, however, because it has disabled such toolbars and non-redirecting URL shorteners after the whole Diggbar controversy).
FairSpin shows you your voting history, as well as the community's, and allows you to hide "highly-biased" stories. It neatly lays out visually what many readers already know, but is a helpful filter nonetheless. Just ignore the side which offends you the most.
The site was developed by Stephen Hood, who until recently ran Delicious for Yahoo, and Dave Baggeroer, a designer. You can read more about it on their blog.
Stephen Hood most recently ran the social bookmarking service Delicious at Yahoo. Based on this experience Stephen is a big believer in the power of the community to organize information and accomplish goals, and sees an opportunity to mobilize readers to identify bias in the news. Dave Baggeroer
