September 2011
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On Inclusion and Belonging
This is a picture of my father, when he was five years old. The year was 1942.
This is not his school photo, it’s an identification card he received from the United States Army.
My father needed this as proof to demonstrate that he was allowed to remain in California, even as his grandfather was put on a train and sent off to a fenced compound in the Arizona desert.
I am a...
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“Facebook is tracking your online activities at... →
(Quotation marks mine.)
moorehn:
The most ridiculous brand of human being, in my opinion, is the one who responds to online privacy concerns with “Everything on Facebook is public. I don’t have anything to hide.” I’m interested in what these people say when they realize that Facebook automatically sends certain purchases to your profile without your permission, and that its cookies track and...
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On Parents Listening to Self-Advocates →
yesbutlunaitslost:
allies-person:
This is pretty much the most amazing parent piece I’ve ever seen.
Of course, people in the comments section had to ruin it.
yeah the people in the comments are augh. but yeah.
The link is to a post by my friend Shannon, who is a parenting hero of mine, and not just because she made millions of people cry watching a Steve Jobs keynote.
No Shannon is a...
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“Living With Dinosaurs”
In the summer of 1989 I interned at Jim Henson Productions in Manhattan, back when Henson still with us, and as The Jim Henson Hour was being aired—and cancelled.
Two of my favorite episodes of the show were never aired on NBC: “Secrets of the Muppets”, a comedic deconstruction of the fusion of television and puppetry that Henson pioneered, and “Living With Dinosaurs”, a live-action short film...
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Tiny change, speaking volumes
One of Tim Cook’s first acts as CEO is to institute a corporate matching program for charitable giving by full-time employees.
Seems like we were talking about this just two weeks ago.
I suspect we will see more examples like this in the coming months: choices Jobs would never have made that are actually, you know, pretty good ideas anyhow.
For Parents of Kids Under 11
I have told you in the past about Justin Roberts, who makes excellent power pop music for children.
In the present I am telling you that Amazon is offering a FREE 5-song Justin Roberts sampler.
BRZZZZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!
I just fired some social media lasers into your brain.
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Rands interview with Mark Alan Stamaty →
It’s awesome discovering that writers you admire grew up with some of the same weird stuff you did.
When it comes to items from this age which made it into the house, the list is stunningly short. Two books. A copy of Huck Finn which was given to me (and signed by) my now deceased grandfather and a copy of Who Needs Donuts? by Mark Alan Stamaty.
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WatchYes, my kid stages photos at theme parks.
But figure he comes by it naturally.
After all his father filmed a Super8 action movie at Disneyland. Complete with a Skyway crane shot over Fantasyland.
So, there’s that.
(Vimeo link)
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The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
The top titles in the Books category of paid iPad apps are almost entirely children’s books. Most of these are traditional books repurposed as multimedia—several of the Dr. Seuss titles, in fact, use the same audio and animations as the CD-ROM versions first published in the 1990s.
One recent standout is The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, which benefits from having a short film...
