Archive for the ‘History’ Category

Emery and Young Life: Real Israel Advocacy

By Adam Feldman Sunday, May 24, 2009 14:37 1 Comment

Our Israel trip is coming to a close. We, the Emery HS Class of ’09, spent 4 years or more looking forward to this trip. Every year we watched a class leave, every year coming closer ourselves to being that group. The trip finally came, and now its almost over, and we have to finally [...]

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Presidential Inauguration Fun Stuff

By Adam Feldman Tuesday, January 20, 2009 20:37 No Comments

The new WhiteHouse.gov is already live (broken links and all). Check out this big difference (via http://codeulate.com/?p=24):
Obama’s two line robots.txt:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /includes/
Bush’s robots.txt (too long to put here – 2324 lines).
In a way it says something about the two administrations commitment to transparency and openness.
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Tag clouds of various inaugural speeches (via ReadWriteWeb).
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Was Condi Rice the [...]

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An Extremely Short History of Personal Computers & the Significance of Open-source Software

By Adam Feldman Wednesday, November 5, 2008 17:21 No Comments

This post is part of a series I am writing for a class on New Media. Some technical explanations may seem unneeded or lengthy, but I am writing for the benefit of a very intelligent but less technical audience.

Anyone else see any humor in my having an obnoxiously long title for this post?
Personal computers only [...]

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