The Education of Jared Dunn Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself. - John Dewey
The Info
I'm, 30-ish, grew up in central Illinois, and went to school around here at the University of Illinois, U/C. I just moved back here this summer to launch a nonprofit dedicated to mobilizing web activists to address digital divide and community decline issues on the local level using social software. I'm currently taking a year off with the generous help of my grandparents to work on building that. Before that, I lived in Boston for five years after college and worked as a neuroscience lab manager for one of the local mega-research universities. My training is in the biological sciences, but I got hooked on the web early on, and I've intermittently done freelance and personal web design and writing/editing work for the past 10 years or so, and am now looking to take my passions for this medium and for politics and make them into a vocation. I'm interested in pretty much everything, which is simultaneously my greatest strength and weakness.
Portishead ? Glory Box(Mudflap Mix)
Portishead ? Sheared Times
Portishead ? Revenge of the Number
Portishead ? Airbus Reconstruction
Portishead ? Theme From to Kill a Dead Man
Portishead ? Lot More
Portishead ? Numb
Portishead ? A Tribute to Monk & Canatella
Portishead ? Numbed in Moscow
Portishead ? Sour Sour Times
More @ Last.fm
Sports Illustrated | William Nack | Pure Heart: In waging the most glorious Triple Crown campaign ever, Secretariat made racing history. In the doing, he took the author on an unforgettably exhilarating ride.
NYT | What Is the Future of Suburbia? A Freakonomics Quorum: Given the economic changes of the past several months, particularly those in the housing market and in energy prices, it seemed like a good idea to run a new quorum on suburbia. What will U.S. suburbs look like in 40 years?
Academic Commons | IT Index: A panopoly of stats on how the incoming freshman class at Amherst College uses technology.
April Winchell | Barack Obama is tired of your motherfucking shit: There is some hilarious stuff in Obama's audiobook reading of Dreams from my Father. Never thought I'd hear a president talking like this and not sounding lame. (Hilarious audio clips included!)
Rolling Stone | Tim Dickinson | Make-Believe Maverick: A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty. (Rolling Stone utterly savages McCain and his self-propogated mythos. Satisfying, if a bit gratuitous.)
Atlantic Monthly | Joshua Green | The Front-Runner's Fall: Hillary Clinton's campaign was undone by a clash of personalities more toxic than anyone imagined. E-mails and memos, published here for the first time, reveal the backstabbing and conflicting strategies that produced an epic meltdown.
National Geographic Magazine | Our Good Earth: With eight billion people, we're going to have to start getting interested in soil. We're simply not going to be able to keep treating it like dirt. (Interesting article on the emerging crisis of soil depletion, erosion, and loss.)
