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By Steve Song, on May 27th, 2011   
Tinkering gets a bad rap and I am making it my personal mission to rehabilitate the term. I keep an eye out for articles about tinkering and it is dismaying to see tinkerers getting the same raw deal as “hackers”. The original terms have been corrupted by the the ill-informed. Superficial, childish and possibly dangerous? [...] [...] By Steve Song, on March 3rd, 2009 This week’s Economist has an excellent special report on waste, entitled Talking Rubbish. It contains the usual Economist savaging of government decision-making and bureaucracy but more importantly some very interesting news on waste management around the world. Worth the read (or the listen if you are, like me, a guilty addict of the measured tones [...] [...] By Steve Song, on January 29th, 2009 I admit to being a little gobstopped by Nicholas Negroponte’s announcment in the Guardian that the next generation OLPC will be Open Hardware is a pretty big deal. I picked up the announcement this morning from Make Magazine editor, Phil Torrone’s twitter feed in which he says “This is pretty much the biggest news of [...] [...] |
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