YQ
29 posts published between October 2005 to January 2006 with links created to work with the Y!Q for Publishers system– an early experiement in hypertext enjmabment.
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Image as Metaphor
Exit Metaphor Originally uploaded by juggernautco. Oftentimes a single image can sum up an entire time period. This image of our President, surrounded top to bottom in the ornate, deep red of China, trying to get out through a door that is locked. The grimace, the door that towers over him, the repeating…
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How I Feel About Fantasy Football
I added another thing to my “Thought I’d Never do THAT” list by joining a Fantasy Football League. Here’s how I feel about Fantasy Football: Conflicted. I get mildly interested in some games that the Pittsburgh Steelers (born there, saw the 4 Super Bowl championships in the 70s) and Chicago Bears (live here, saw 1985…
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Toward a Rethinking of Tornado Warnings
The deadly tornado in Indiana and Kentucky is another opportunity for us to consider new, innovative ways for one-to-many and many-to-many communications system in a world of Open Source Emergency Response. In this NYT article, Tornado Survivors Question Siren Warning System, people question the utility of TV warnings and land-based sirens for emergencies in the…
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Testing out Y!Q
What if there was a concrete incentive to play with some of the stuff we’ve been building? Like maybe a cold, hard $5,000. That’d buy you a nice new