news from kintespace.com: Wednesday, March 29 2006

news from kintespace.com

::: Wednesday, March 29 2006

Chief Technologist and President of Fooky, Inc. Ed Dunn shares his worldview of search technology and what he has to offer in the field that many pundits consider a closed frontier. We also get personal and look unflinchingly at what it means to be IT Africans in a society conditioned to see us more comical or political than technical.

::: Shirley Staples: Getting It Together

::: ::: http://kintespace.com/p_shirleystaples0.html

Adventurous alibris.com shoppers should find a link to the title We Speak as Liberators: Young Black Poets—An Anthology, by Orde Coombs. In this rare and valuable book of 1970 is the work of Shirley Staples, “A nineteen-year-old junior majoring in English at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.” Her poem “Getting It Together” is wakeup call to self—one embracing the Black consciousness of the time. This is a wonderful snapshot of the political world of a young woman in 1970—a youth of the Vietnam era, a maturing adolescence that may provide some reflection and focus for the teens of the Iraq era.

::: RAQs of rasx(): Rarely Asked Questions, Volume One

::: ::: http://kintespace.com/rasx32.html

Rarely asked questions is a series of short, flippant answers to questions that interest me but probably do not interest you—until perhaps you see the words rendered here running across the crystals or the phosphors toward your mind. Do I make your clean, green, suburban lawn dirty? Are you keeping it real*—paying abstract property taxes on the surreal estate?

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