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reform is compl{ex,icated}: a dialog

In commented, edumication on 8 April 2008 tagged education, fixing-things, politics, reform, revolution, social-justic, social-reform, sociology, solutions, stimulant, stimulant-school, university with 3 comments

Last week, Chris Bisignani was kind enough to leave a careful, detailed reply to a post of mine about structural problems with modern reform. I finally sat down and sketched out the beginnings of replies to the myriad questions he raised. So here it is, an ongoing discussion about the nature of reform.1 [...]

{crowd, open}-sourcing industrial design

In economics, narrative on 8 March 2008 tagged big-ideas, honda, instructrables, open-source, open-source-hardware, open-source-industry, solutions, technology with no comments

I hope that this instructable is portentous:

The stock cupholder tray between the front seats of the Honda Odyssey is a well-known spill hazard.
It is possible to modify the stock cupholders to make them less prone to spill.
This instructable gives you step-by-step instructions on how to do it.

Think about this: someone, dissatisfied with their Honda, wants [...]