Monthly Archives: June 2008

Subtopia: Shipping Justice

http://subtopia.blogspot.com/2008/06/shipping-justice.html





The box is 10-by-6-foot, with an eight foot-high ceiling. Inside nothing exists but cold white walls, a platform with a measly mattress, a stainless steel toilet/sink fixture, a florescent light, and a slitted window to meet the bare minimum requirement for a human’s right to natural light.
Needless to say, the bright crate isn’t delivering a diplomatic gesture of internationally prized oranges. And thankfully not a menacing experimental crowd control robot, either. It’s actually a scaled replica of a maximum security prison cell at Guantanamo Bay where detainees are known to spend up to 23 hours a day in total isolation.

Microsoft Seeks Path Beyond Gates’s Legacy – NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/technology/27soft.html?ei=5124&en=7a10937df3ccc913&ex=1372219200&adxnnl=1&partner=digg&exprod=digg&adxnnlx=1214559407-eHaIPmidoMRUIDsk4K6h%20A

Friday will be Bill Gates’s last day as a full-time worker at Microsoft, the software giant he founded with Paul Allen in 1975. He attended an event unveiling Windows 95 in August 1995.

As Bill Gates moves on, it will be up to successors to master the Internet’s challenges or see Microsoft’s stature erode.