Month: June 2016

  • This Week in Web #25

    This Week in Web #25

    Mark Zuckerberg Is Right to Tape His Webcam. But He Shouldn’t Have To. Will Oremus, Slate It’s not that weird that someone as high profile as Mark Zuckerberg considers basic cyber security. After all, as we mentioned a few weeks ago, even the CEO of Facebook is not immune to hacking. A good point is…

  • You Need To Encourage Others to Rise and Surpass You

    Last Week I saw a Humans of New York photo and caption that was shared and commented upon by NASA’s official Facebook account: The young girl expressed interest in building a rocket ship to explore space, and the NASA account commented that she’s the right age to be part of one of the first manned…

  • This Week in Web #24

    This Week in Web #24

    Orlando, the City Beautiful and Strong I am gay, half-Latin, and I live in Orlando, Florida. I have never been involved with any violent crimes and was thankfully not involved with the horrific murders that took place in my city on Sunday morning, but this is the closest anything that notorious has occurred to me.…

  • Choose Kindness and Love Over Hate

    I was 13 years old in September of 2011. I lived on an army base at the time but went to a high school off-base with everyone my age from the neighboring towns. For a month or so after the attacks, what used to be a ten-minute commute coming home from school was a multi-hour…

  • This Week in Web #23

    This Week in Web #23

    The rise and fall of Urlesque, the site that wanted to take memes mainstream Rae Votta, Daily Dot I admit, I was never even aware of the existence of Urlesque (which is no longer active but with remnants existing in HuffPost Comedy), but hearing this retelling of the site’s short existence at AOL by one…

  • This Week in Web #22

    This Week in Web #22

    Hacks, Hacks, Hacks The increase in data breaches begets data breaches There are always hacks coming along, but it seems that popular social networks have been getting a lot of it lately. LinkedIn, Tumblr, and even the “Do I still have a site here?” Myspace have had security breaches that are just coming to light.…

  • ‘Waking Sleeping Beauty’ and the Destruction and Creation of Creative Works

    ‘Waking Sleeping Beauty’ and the Destruction and Creation of Creative Works

    One of the first films that I can remember seeing at the Enzian was the documentary ‘Waking Sleeping Beauty’. One of the coolest things at the start of the movie was the cameraman walking down the halls of the Disney Animation Studio offices in the early 80’s, listing off animators as he walked by, names…