Re: [IAEP] Is there a new geek anti-intellectualism?

2011-06-12 Thread mokurai
On Sat, June 11, 2011 7:32 pm, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: Hi all, thanks to Twitter I stumbled across a very interesting blog post called Is there a new geek anti-intellectualism? (http://larrysanger.org/2011/06/is-there-a-new-geek-anti-intellectualism/). Particularly in combination with

[IAEP] Ancient Manners is on Project Gutenberg!

2011-06-12 Thread James Simmons
If you've read any of my FLOSS Manual E-Book Enlightenment you know that I've been preparing free e-books and contributing them to the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg Canada, and Distributed Proofreaders Canada. Yesterday I reached an important milestone: my very first donation to Project

Re: [IAEP] Ancient Manners is on Project Gutenberg!

2011-06-12 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 8:44 AM, James Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: If you've read any of my FLOSS Manual E-Book Enlightenment you know that I've been preparing free e-books and contributing them to the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg Canada, and Distributed Proofreaders Canada.  

[IAEP] Teaching that the error condition is normal, and the wisdom of crowds

2011-06-12 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
Earlier this year, one of the public transit systems that I take to work decided to upgrade their fare collection system. The exact name or nature of this system is not important, apart from the fact it is a regional train line. But as someone hired to test Sugar its related items, I saw this