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Such technology offers great oppertunity for altruistic endeavors. But such technologies don't come cheap. And I for one have a hard time imagining any entity, individual or corporate, who would be willing to foot such a bill *and* accepting a high ideal such as "the betterment of society and human life" as a reasonable return on investment. Not without a major cultural shift, at least. Emerging technologies could very well lead to such a shift, but now we're putting the cart before the horse because we still need the initial funders to get the ball rolling on these technologies so that a cultural shift has a snowball's chance.
I'm definately interested in reading more. Some of the subtle language choices lead me to believe Mr. Greenfield and I share a certain set of common interests (mediation, panoptical, "rationalization" which I assume gets the quotes because it is used in the context of Max Weber). So my to-read list gets yet another entry added to it.
"we're putting the cart before the horse because we still need the initial funders to get the ball rolling…"
Adam makes the case pretty persuasively elsewhere in the book that the initial funders have been investing in ubiquitous tech for quite some time, and that many real-world examples of it are already in use. Many of these are not—yet—pitched at consumers directly (those that are aren't in generally in the US yet at least). Instead, there are millitary applications, government projects, and so on.
Very few people would have thought to tackle the ethical and social implications of large-scale use of the Arpanet in the mid-1960's, or mobile phone technology in the 1970's. Those technologies also had deep funding and long-term strategies for applications. Adam's convinced me that we're already past that point with everyware; there's no better time than now to consider cultural shifts.
I can inherently understand that every person has a different conceptualization of the world and of the future—so when I press submit and post my tripe, I hope it won't be offensive to the author. Mr. Greenspan, I do have nothing but respect for you… moreso because I don't even know you.
However, I think I've heard enough of the elitist visions of the future. "Ubiquitous computing" wether even possible or not, could be a long way off. And if it were possible, happening even now, would it be a good idea? Would it be accepted?
The numbers speak for themselves at any rate. Broadband adoption is slowing in North America and is only dense in large urban centers. The sale of smart-phones, PDA devices, and other high-tech devices is dwindling all but amongst the elite.
I think the evidence is there to support my argument that we will not see this idea of everyware. While technology is immensely useful for many things, it is not intuitive enough to replace systems that have already reached their pinnicle. Sure there is always a better way to do something, but is it always better to introduce another layer to our interface with reality?
There will be blips and bleeps and glimpses of this everyware all around us, but I don't believe it will be all-encompassing. It will find its place where it is useful as all things tend to do.
What does scare me about "everyware," is the idea of exchange of privacy for convenience… not only does it increase the convenience for the individual, but it also increases the convenience of malcontents to use such open-ness against individuals and society.
The more we allow ourselves to be tracked, the more data there is to steal. We should seek to return to anonymous systems if we value not only our privacy, but our safety as well.
I think it's not the love of money the root of all evil, but the lack of it.
The article is written perfectly, in my opinion, although I think the things it states will only become available years from now
Everyware is already creeping into our lives. Consider RFID tags and a well-known computer vendor's recent commercial. The truck drivers are hopelessly lost, yet a very helpful woman sitting in the middle of the road seems to have all the answers. When asked how she knew they were lost, she simply replies: "The boxes told me."
RFID is just the tip of the iceberg. These technologies hold great deal of promise in making our lives easier, but they also hold a great potential for abuse - perhaps as great as the death of civil liberty (and privacy) as we know it. Even while living an ethical and transparent life, there are things we simply do not wish to share with the rest of the world. Without proper restraint by developers and consumers alike, such a scenario is not a great stretch of the imagination.
Us web developers will sure be held responsible for the effects of everyware to a certain degree, won't we?
Am I the only person who feels this is just an advert for the author's book? The article doesn't work as an introduction to what ubiquitous computing is nor to what it could achieve; it's simply an introduction to a book. And what use is that to us?
I am very skeptical of any technology ever being mature and standardised enough to 'just work'. I believe there will always be incompatibilities brought on by the mismatched speeds at which new functionailty is implemented and the creation of standards defining that functionality. It's human nature to always push the boundaries _just_ beyond breaking point.
I planned on making a big fuss about over-terminologization and the evils of our modernized lives, but I began to lose focus of my core idea: we should all be taught to relate to the world sans technology before are "everywared" out of real existence. And I don't mean use a television remote that doesn't also talk to your fridge to find out if you're low on turnip greens. I'm talking about going outside to lay in the grass. Stare at some clouds. Make fresh cheese from a local farmer's milk. Go nuts - talk to someone face-to-face.
We're in such a rush, and "everyware" will make that rush seem so relaxed we may forget what it is like to really relax.
Pull the plug on technology in your house. You may be fine, but I bet your kids won't know what to do.
By the way, remember the commercial for the toddler-targeted "learning laptop?" The voice over states something like, "for my toddlers busy schedule…" When I was toddler, and we're talking 1970's - not that long ago - toddlers didn't have a busy schedule. And we played with blocks, not laptops. What social changes will result from this trend? Are we preparing the youth for mid-20s coronaries or psychological meltdowns? Perhaps "everyware" is all that stands between them and a very short life span? Just a thought…
Am I the only one who got chills down their spine? I couldn't help but remember 1984 as I read this article. In a world where technology becomes so commonplace as to be unnoticeable, such a reality inevitably becomes more feasible.
All I have to say is that technology has tremendous potential. Weather it's used correctly is another matter.
Always great to read what someone thinks the future has to hold but I think that there are alot of things missing from his speech for instance the use of nano tech
Britney and Bruno V, it's important to note that _Everyware_ is not a piece of speculation. It's primarily about the near term: about things that either exist right now, or will in the next eighteen months at the very outside. These are products, services and systems like Hong Kong's Octopus card, South Korea's entire _city_ of New Songdo, or PayPass here in North America. Indeed, as Andrew implies, I spend quite a good part of the book making the argument that everyware is something whose implications we need to be attending to yesterday.
Derek and Matt, I think you'll be especially pleased by the book - either because you've correctly sussed out my influences, or because you'll approve of the stance I wind up taking with regard to ubiquitous informatics.
James and Tamlyn, I'm sorry, but you appear to have missed my point. Perhaps I didn't express it strongly enough: I'm probably more skeptical than most that ubiquitous systems will "Just Work" without a thoroughly unlikely degree of effort and investment. Nor do I believe that everyware necessarily should be deployed in any given context at all, or that it will represent an improvement where it is deployed. It's to counter such assumptions - perhaps unsurprisingly, widespread and relatively unexamined among technologists and technophiles - that I wrote _Everyware_ in the first place.
In any event, thanks to all of you for your comments. It's a scary and exciting time, and I'm terribly happy to be able to contribute to this crucial conversation.
Things will never simply "just work", that's an unrealistic Utopian ideal which is inherently flawed. It's like saying "I don't make mistakes!" but of course you've already made the first mistake.
I see three stumbling blocks to any system. The first being 'the human' that creates the system, 'the human' that implements the system and 'the human' that uses the system.
As a web developer I've come to the understanding, the opposite is true "nothing just works". You always need to 'want', to want to make it work.
This is a pretty lofty manifesto from someone who's own website doesn't even "just work". He have links to validators (neither HTML or CSS validate as linked), and his own contact form redirects to a 404 page.
It's just sad really.
Nick, your comment is both factually incorrect and saddening.
Firstly, my site validates on both counts. But even if it didn't, I fail to see how that would render my point equally invalid, in any way.
Do you only listen to the opinions of that vanishingly small percentage of the world's population who have both the capacity and motivation to express themselves in valid XHTML with a proper DTD? Would you disregard the viewpoint of an ecologist, or a civil engineer, if their utterances failed validation?
Please do try not to miss the forest for the trees - for the veins on the underside of a single leaf, actually. The kind of intolerant, narrowly reductive stance your comment epitomizes (to say nothing of its dismissive rudeness) will do us no good at all if we truly wish to build technology that serves ordinary people. And I do assume that is what we all want.
bq. We will have to accept that privacy as we have heretofore understood it may be a thing of the past: that people will be presented with a bargain where access to the most intimate details of their lives is traded away in return for increased convenience, and that many will accept.
People definately will (and do) sacrifice a lot more that their privace for their "increased convenience". I find convenience along with security may be the main drives of our generation, but also core culprits for intellectual and creative sterility.
Yes, google may increase our IQ by whathaveyou, but what happens to our inquisitional capabilities?
If you ask a child a question and never wait for it to think for itself, but immediately feed him the correct answer, you effectively impair its creative abilities.
I just read this article.
Well written, but sadly devoid of anything actually interesting.
Do we really need another buzz word for the web 60.0 bandwagon to jump on. No satisfied with Tag clouds, Podcasting, Blogging"¦the list goes on and on"¦we have to come up with one that now sums up that in the future, more devices will be connected to each other, and it has to be an extremely funny play on words (ahem) — EVERYWARE!
I don't see the point of this article on List Apart. I see the reason an article like this may exist — if someone had been commissioned to write it for a company that had a specific use for it, and as that, it would be a fine piece of work. However, do any of the users of this website (not magazine, sorry) have to be told that in the future, more devices will talk to each other?
Do we need another buzz word?
I tell you what, im going to go with Mr Greenfields principle as I guess I generally agree with it (as its just common sense) — but im going to call it - Conversaging!
In "conversation"? we are all talking together, and everything is "converging"? in a number of "years"? (age) so "conversaging"? is the future. How clever I am.
Its not as good as everyware, but im clearly not as witty.
Oh well
First of all, yes your page validates… now. At the time I posted my previous comment, you had an EM tag that was not closed, thus causing any markup after that point to be considered invalid. This markup error caused the CSS validator to skip validating the CSS all together. You obviously know this as the error has since been corrected. That was the main point behind my previous comment.
To address your second concern about the message being more important than the method in which it's delivered, I agree. You seem to have forgotten a rather important point though. On this website, with this audience, the method is every bit as important as the message. Someone preaching about technology to this community should understand that proper markup is important not only for all the commonly understood reasons, but to this community in particular it lends you one very important asset"¦credibility. Had this message been coming from "an ecologist, or a civil engineer"? then yes, I would be more tolerant of this kind of issue. Given the topic of your manifesto however"¦
When ALA relaunched with this new design, there was an issue that was brought to ALA's attention regarding validation of the new CSS. The issue turned out to be an issue with the validator, and not the CSS. ALA (Eric Meyer) even posted an article detailing what the problem was, and why it occurred. The point here is that you need to know your audience. Frequent readers of this website will be much less inclined to accept information (particularly on this topic) from a source that lacks this most basic credibility.
bq. Please do try not to miss the forest for the trees — for the veins on the underside of a single leaf, actually. The kind of intolerant, narrowly reductive stance your comment epitomizes (to say nothing of its dismissive rudeness) will do us no good at all if we truly wish to build technology that serves ordinary people. And I do assume that is what we all want.
I take particular issue with that statement. Your condescending tone aside; In order to realize your fantasy of "technology that serves ordinary people"? and technology that "just works"?, there must be a common, well-understood foundation on which that technology can grow. In the case of the web (or any technology that interchanges raw data) that foundation is valid markup.
I also noticed that my concerns about your contact form have yet to be addressed. If indeed it is working properly (and you got the message I attempted to send yesterday before turning to the ALA forum), you really should consider some sort of confirmation page so that people using this form know that their information was actually received. I seriously doubt this is the case however as I get redirected to http://v-2.org/archive.php?found=false whenever I submit. That's not so great for "serving ordinary people"?. Most would not be nearly as patient as I have been.
Additionally, try clicking on your name (the link to your website) in any of your defensive follow-ups in this forum. I'm sure I don't need to tell you that http://http//www.v-2.org is not a valid URL. Mistyping (or not double checking) the URL for your own website doesn't exactly instill a high level of confidence in your credibility as proponent of technology.
I also agree with what many of my fellow readers have already said"¦.This article doesn't belong on ALA.
Nick, you lost the right to "take exception" to my tone - or anyone's - the moment you commented the way you did. You may now wish that you had couched your original commentary in a more collegial tone, but unfortunately you did not. You were obnoxious, and you got all the response you deserved.
As to whether this piece belongs on ALA, maybe you should take that up with the editors, as it was an invited submission.
I'll tell you this, though, and it's a little sad: when I mentioned that this was going to appear here at a gathering of friends, they all without exception wrinkled their noses and asked why. They recommended against it, using language (and this is close to verbatim) like "why would you want your work to be pissed on by a bunch of teenage standards Nazis?"
I felt then, and still feel, that that's not a fair characterization of this site, or its audience. But I've gotta tell ya, you're doing a pretty good job of proving my cynical friends right. I had hoped that, by having this appear here, the "people who make Web sites" who read ALA would consider the challenges (not to mention the professional opportunities) that await us in the post-PC milieu, and here we are having a conversation as to what happens when we click on my name.
For the record, Nick, I didn't enter the improperly-formatted URL that seems to so enrage you, as my membership in ALA was provided to me by the editors so I could respond to comments. I'm sure, if you mail them politely, they'll correct it to remove the errant "http:".
The goal of my original post was to bring some (minor) issues with your website to light to both ALA readers and yourself. You apparently either can not take, or believe you are above this type of criticism, and resorted to a personal attack. My post did not attack you personally, or even take issue with your academic work
bq. As to whether this piece belongs on ALA, maybe you should take that up with the editors, as it was an invited submission.
I believe the repsonses here speak for themselves.
bq. For the record, Nick, I didn't enter the improperly-formatted URL [...] I'm sure, if you mail them politely, they'll correct it to remove the errant "http:"?.
Fair enough.
bq. Nick, you lost the right to "take exception"? to my tone — or anyone's — the moment you commented the way you did. You may now wish that you had couched your original commentary in a more collegial tone, but unfortunately you did not. You were obnoxious, and you got all the response you deserved.
I stand by my original post. I believe you may have mis-interpreted my tone. This is after all the website for "people who make websites", and these types of things are constantly being brought up.
I would have been more than happy to bring these issues to your attention in a less public forum. I did in fact attempt to contact you via the contact form on your site 3 separate times, and with 3 different browsers. Had you (or your developer) taken the time to test your form, I wouldn't have had to mention it here.
Should any of us "people who make websites" launch a form like this that doesn't work properly (if at all), we would surely hear about it from both our clients and superiors. It's also unlikely that we'd get a whole lot of sympathy from either. A person in your position of pseudo-authority really should be more careful. Please fix your contact form.
Had you not issued your rebuttal in such a condescending tone, I would not have felt the need to defend my position.
bq. I'll tell you this, though, and it's a little sad: when I mentioned that this was going to appear here at a gathering of friends, they all without exception wrinkled their noses and asked why. They recommended against it, using language (and this is close to verbatim) like "why would you want your work to be pissed on by a bunch of teenage standards Nazis?"?
Name calling and mud-flinging. That kind of remark doesn't belong here (even if it is a quote). Be careful Adam… your character is starting to show.
I'll say it again… Know your audience. If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen. In the scientific community, pieces such as yours are subject to relentless scrutiny. I see no reason your work should be an exception.
bq. I had hoped that, by having this appear here, the "people who make Web sites"? who read ALA would consider the challenges (not to mention the professional opportunities) that await us in the post-PC milieu, and here we are having a conversation as to what happens when we click on my name.
I believe most of us do. It's our job.
For the record, I could care less what happenes when I click your name.
...on the merits of what I put out there for discussion. I welcome it, I look forward to it, I grow and learn from it.
What you did was nothing of the sort. It was irrelevant nit-picking. The fact that you apparently tried to convey the nit to me privately before doing so here doesn't excuse you from the obligation to do so with a modicum of consideration and politesse.
I convey the sense and the wording of my friend's commentary to let you know what behavior like yours looks like outside the echo chamber. I endorse neither the wording nor (as I indicate) the sentiment - but as someone who has in the past had to try and sell Web standards to resistant clients, I can tell you that "advocacy" like yours is directly counterproductive.
If human beings acting in good faith are having a hard time ensuring that their sites comply with the standards at all times and under all circumstances, then maybe, just maybe, it's something about the standards themselves that's causing the trouble.
But now we've strayed an awfully long way from what I'm here to talk about, and I'm afraid I've cooperated with you in pulling the discussion off-course. I'm sincerely sorry if you didn't get anything out of the introduction, and given your evident antipathy I'm not going to insult you by suggesting that you'll necessarily find anything in the other 260-odd pages of the book worthwhile, either. I will thank you for your concern that my site validate, and your dedication to the cause.
having reading this incredible excerpt, my first thoughts are of trust. there is always somebody in charge and however we manage to pull off this technological wizardry, there will be people hacking, spamming and all the rest of it. who polices them? who polices the police? and who polices the police of the police… etc etc…
secondly, how will we ensure there are enough chioces. people who don't trust Microsoft passionately evangelise Linux. if, in a technology of the future, there comes to be a monopoly, would people have this freedom? would you be able to 'downsize' to freeware? or would it all be exclusively available on only one system?
i am probably missing huge chunks of what this could be all about, but i am very interested to know more and am hottly awaiting my crisp freshly wrapped copy of the book.
While I know that everyware is undoubtedly going to pervade (invade) most of civilized society sooner or later, I for one would rather live without any technology at all than with technology surrounding me at all times and steering my course of existence.
I'm a currently freelance web developer by trade; I do this because I'm good at it, because I get paid well for it, and because I need to build up some finances. I don't do it because I gain any enjoyment or satisfaction from doing so. In fact, I utterly detest the way that technology has become necessary rather than complimentary to human life.
I intend to move far, far away from all technology-driven civilization and *actually live* a life which will satisfy me physically, philosophically and spiritually - far more than a lifetime of technological mollycoddling, as portrayed in this article, ever could!
"Portrayed," surely: but never, you'll note, _approvingly_. ; . )
Tom Allen:
While I don't quite share your level of contempt for our ever-increasingly "technology-driven civilization," I do see the problem with becoming enveloped by the technology to the loss of our ability to live without it (see Woody Allen's oddly applicable and startlingly prescient "Sleeper").
I totally agree, however, with the run-to-the-hills, commune with nature attitude. I work in computers and web design, but I dream of the low-tech life, or at least the ability to step out of the digital realm for a nice sit. But will future (or current) generations even be able to sit on the porch with a drink without having (at a minimum) a cell phone on their person? That's exactly why I got rid of mine - owning one meant people expected me to be connected 24/7. It's not quite the same as my fridge e-mailing me that the mustard is nearly empty and the milk is spoiling, but it's an early point along the same line.
I wonder if in the future we will be able to access the non-digital realm without first plugging ourselves in?
What about the growing amount of garbage that is created by the multiplication of microships (by replacing computers or mobiles, adding ships everywhere)? What about the multiplication of low frequencies, not yet be proven as dangerous, but that scientist ignore the long term effects?
I don't see ubiquitous computing as becoming something else than the amplified reflect of our current society: rich people living in their bubble, completly cut from the reality (the sad one). Are we just working to make this bubble sweeter ?
Remy, John Thackara's "In the Bubble":"http://www.thackara.com/inthebubble/" talks quite a lot about the socio-economic and ecological implications of these technologies. (Ironically, his use of the term "in the bubble" isn't the same as the way you use it.) It's actually a pretty sobering read, but given Adam's focus on design ethics, it's very relevant to "Everyware."
..and though I'll bet Adam wouldn't suggest it on his own, Mau's "Massive Change":http://www.massivechange.com/ tries to make designers aware of the many impacts that new design and manufacturing processes have.
I didn't like this article much. I kept wondering when the author was going to start speaking english. Then I got a good laugh as he acted like a pretentious brat in the comments here. He hasn't done much else here either.
I'm a big fan of ALA and have been for a long time. But this is just silly.
_Mr. Greenfield;_
Perhaps I have missed the point of your book, and maybe the point of your article. Though, in retrospect I think my thoughts were probably as tangental as your article—meaning, that I haven't read your book and cannot understand all of your assumptions as you probably don't understand mine.
However, I don't think your point is moot… I think this is indeed an important conversation.
My only criticism, if it can be called that, is that I'm not entirely sure that "everyware" is an applicable term if we consider the implied entymology. The software and systems which you mention are not "everywhere" by a long shot yet and I doubt they will become invasive and all-encompassing in the long-term.
Perhaps they will for those of us in the upper-strata of the economy, but until the percentage of persons who own a sophisticated electronic device can get above a critical-mass; it's in my opinion that a lot of this conversation is purely theoretical.
(Which of course doesn't invalidate the argument, but I do think that there might be a more suitable word than 'everyware.' Catchy-ness is useful for marketing, but we cannot allow market-speak to delude our language).
In the future everyone on the face of the earth will be able to have hot toast on command, even as they shower. That is unless the ice caps melt and we all drown.
The best technology is to not be reliant on technology. I don't have a cell phone and I get along without one just fine. And it costs less. Actually it costs me nothing. It seems like every new thing that is introduced may have some benefits but there's always a downside as well.
Technology is just technology; not bad or good, with it's implementation dependent upon the programmer and designer. Everyware does sound like a nice concept; the ability to monitor the elderly from afar in case they fall ill, etc. Yet very few 'new' innovations in Computer Science (after all that is what we are discussing) actually get to the person in the street in a very useful form. A recent article on the UK site The "Register":http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/04/10/henslow_darwin_sqlserver/ in which the discuss the adoption of RDMS in Academia or the lack thereof. Databases has been seen as a 'solved' problem in Computer Science research for a long time. Yet your average, even-above average user can not utlise the benefits of such organisation because the implementations(i.e. products) have been woefully promoted and in some cases designed. Technology needs not only to Just Work but also be explained to people for acceptance and uptake to occur. The spread of blackberrys in business is a case in point. Giving people round the clock access to email is great; but why? Why should executives be expected to work more hours and be tied to these e-mail clients? Technology should be used to free up our time and enable us to work less not, chain us wherever we should chose to be. My one hope is that more developers and designers see the consequences of their design decisions.
Judging from this adv^H^H^Harticle, it seems if I apply the DEBUZZWORD lossless compression algorithm on that book, I'd get at least 98% compression of the original.
This is just the latest example of overblown "gee Whiz" effect. We used to call it "rapture of the deep." He almost gets it right in the passage,
". . . We will have to balance whatever improvement we hope to achieve by overlaying our lives with digital mediation against the risk of unduly complicating that which is presently straightforward, breaking that which now works, and introducing new levels of frustration and inconvenience into all the most basic operations of our lives.
But veers away, with a short sentence about prepatation for the inevitable "breakdown of mediation."
The high tech landscape is strewn with solutions chasing problems; marketers pushing products we don't really need.
Our lives and business activities depend on many simple, direct transactions that become overly complex and prone to failure with the introduction of computerized "mediation."
Let's be careful about that "breaking that which now works" part. You might want it back again someday.
...as to how you guys wind up assuming that I _approve_ of what's coming down the pike, in any way.
It is true that it's sort of unfair to expect a reader to infer the content of a book from its introduction. But I've reread this quite a few times, now, and it's right there on the page (as it were). So I'm a little puzzled as to the response this piece is running into here (and nowhere else).
Y'see, I _agree_ with those of you who think that too often, buzzwords replace critical thought about technology - else why would I worry about "the parade of content-free buzz-prefixes used by the marketers of" same?
I agree with those of you who think what we're on the verge of trading away is worth far more than the paltry trinkets we've been offered in return - short of outright hyperbole, I don't think there's a clearer way to say this than to use words like "risk" and "frustration" and "inconvenience."
Above all, I agree that representation and mediation in everyday life are much thornier and more complicated than a UML diagram can represent: this is precisely what I mean by "the dissonance…the odd dislocations that crop up whenever we follow old maps into a new territory."
I guess I could understand the hostility you're bringing to the table if none of that was in there…but it is. I'm not the one trying to sell you this stuff, I'm trying to raise awareness about what's clearly headed our way, so that individuals and communities can mount appropriate responses. In fact, I think my skepticism about the presumptive "benefits" of everyware is about as pronounced as it could be, without disregarding the actual upside potential.
So Ralph, and Alan, and bill, I have to ask you: is it simply that you didn't _read_ the piece before sounding off? Because, otherwise, there's a time-honored expression in English for what it is that you're doing: we call it shooting the messenger.
Adam, I did read the article and I don't understand why some comments seem to imply that you are promoting (or even happy about) the future you depict. And I wasn't shooting the messenger.
However I admit that my comment was probably inappropriate.
You do write very well and I'll bet my tits its a great book.
Im not a "teenage standards Nazi" either. And I agree that both content and intention are a million times more important than markup. I'm also sure that most here would agree.
I guess my frustration with the article was due to my not having accepted it as a simple intro to your book. It didn't have much content. But that's because it's an intro! My bad…
I guess I just come here for the no-nonsense balls-to-the-wall information in plain old friendly English. I just want the facts/advice/tips/whatever. But that doesn't mean that ALA shouldn't publish a plug for an exceptional book that has relevance to my field. And there is no reason for me to come in here and criticize ALA for not making an article for ME every odd tuesday.
Anyway all I want to say is that my comment had little to do with your book.
Oh and I agree with a previous poster that getting outside for a while (maybe a camping trip in the Rockies for a week) will 100% cure anyone of future phobia. But that's another book.
What Erin said.
...just in case you're still reading this page. That was an honorable thing you did.
After reading both of the Everyware articles (and thinking of picking up the book) I have to say that I agree, though I think you are being too optimistic. The forces pushing for ubiquitous technology are too many and too powerful to limit their influence in any meaningful way. Oh sure, people can debate here and elsewhere, but that debate will be held among the very few (globally speaking) and I don't think it will have any tangible impact. It's like debating Attila's hordes. They'll be happy to sit down and have a conversation, but at the end of the day it will just roll over you anyway.
It's not democratic, it's not beneficial, but when has that stopped anyone? The future, in short, is profitable. Immensly profitable, and the plans and desires of Brazilian farmer meet the plans and desires of a Wall Street investor, it's not hard to predict the outcome.
Which is not to say (I hope) that resistance is futile. Unfortunately, social movements, especially global ones, don't spring up overnight, even if organization, funding, and initiative were a given. The question is whether limiting ubiquitous technology will even be possible in a few decades, or indeed whether the question will still be meaningful.
I am surprised that no one mentioned the excellent work of Michael Dertouzos in that field, a work that originated in 1999 and that I first get acquainted with via the "Scientific American".
"Oxygen project (Brochure about the Oxygen project) ":http://oxygen.lcs.mit.edu/Publications/Oxygen.pdf.
The Oxygen project is decribed as "New technologies that put humans in the center of computing"
An absolute must.


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Performers: Ganz, Rudolf
Conductors: Ganz, Rudolf
Rudolph Ganz, born in Zurich in 1877, was among the most influential Swiss musicians abroad in the first half of the 20th century. Included on...continue...
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Bach: Mass in B minor; Brahms, etc / Kathleen Ferrier, etc
3 CD / Guild / 2004-01-01Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV 232; Spoken Word: Broadcast Commentary on Brahms; Kathleen Ferrier Gives Spoken Introduction to 1952 London Recital; Johannes Brahms: Serious Songs (4), Op...
Performers: Ludwig, Walther; Schoeffler, Paul [Baritone Vocal]; Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth [Soprano vocals]
Conductors: Karajan, Herbert v.; Sargent, Malcolm
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra; Vienna Symphony Orchestra
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Named one of TIME magazine's "100 Innovators for the Next New Wave," in 2002 Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her Broadway hit Topdog/Underdog. A MacArthur "Genius" Award recipient, she has also been awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is recipient of a Lila-Wallace Reader's Digest Award, a CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts (Drama) for 1996, a Guggenheim Foundation Grant and is an alumna of Mount Holyoke College and New Dramatists. Her book adaptation of The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess helped the show earn the 2012 Tony Award for Best Revival.
Her numerous plays include Father Comes Home From The Wars, The Book of Grace, Topdog/Underdog (2002 Pulitzer Prize), In the Blood (2000 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Venus (1996 OBIE Award), The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Fucking A, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom (1990 OBIE Award for Best New American Play), and The America Play. In 2007 her 365 Plays/ 365 Days was produced in over 700 theaters worldwide, creating one of the largest grassroots collaborations in theater history. Her work is the subject of the PBS Film The Topdog Diaries.
Her first feature-length screenplay was Girl 6 written for Spike Lee. She's also written screenplays for Brad Pitt, Denzel Washington, Jodi Foster and Oprah Winfrey, adapting Zora Neale Hurston's classic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God which premiered on ABC's Oprah Winfrey Presents. As a film actor Parks has appeared in the fictional-documentary …Plus One which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009.
Suzan-Lori's first novel Getting Mother's Body (Random House, 2003) is set in the west Texas of her youth and follows the scrappy Beede family as they embark on a riotous road trip in hopes of recovering a fortune of jewels – rumored to be buried with a long-dead relative.
Her current projects include her Ray Charles musical, Unchain My Heart, scheduled to premiere on Broadway, and she's working on a new musical, the next installments of Father Comes Home, and a project for television. Stay tuned for more info. Weekly, at the Public Theatre she performs her innovative performance piece Watch Me Work.
In November 2008 Suzan-Lori Parks became the first recipient of the Master Writer Chair at the Public Theater, and also serves as a visiting arts professor in dramatic writing at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Holding honorary doctorates from Brown University, among others, Suzan-Lori credits her writing teacher and mentor, James Baldwin, for starting her on the path of playwrighting. One of the first to recognize Parks' writing skills, Mr. Baldwin declared Parks "an astonishing and beautiful creature who may become one of the most valuable artists of our time."


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Regional Anesthesia For Office Procedures: Part I. Head and Neck Surgeries - Article
ABSTRACT: Although local anesthesia usually is used in surgical procedures, field or nerve blocks can provide more effective anesthesia in some situations. In a field block, local anesthetic is infiltrated around the border of the surgical field, leaving the operative area undisturbed. In field blocks, epinephrine may be added to the anesthetic to enhance vasoconstriction and prolong the duration of anesthesia. In a nerve block, anesthetic is injected directly adjacent to the nerve supplying the surgical field. A review of regional anatomy and the location of nerves and other important structures is essential before administering the injection. Systemic toxicity is rare with regional anesthesia and can be prevented by using the smallest dose possible and aspirating before the injection. Supraorbital, supratrochlear, infraorbital, and mental nerve blocks can provide adequate anesthesia in procedures on parts of the face. Field block also may be considered when operating on the ear or lips.
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The Adult Neck Mass - Article
ABSTRACT: Family physicians frequently encounter neck masses in adult patients. A careful medical history should be obtained, and a thorough physical examination should be performed. The patient's age and the location, size, and duration of the mass are important pieces of information. Inflammatory and infectious causes of neck masses, such as cervical adenitis and cat-scratch disease, are common in young adults. Congenital masses, such as branchial anomalies and thyroglossal duct cysts, must be considered in the differential diagnosis. Neoplasms (benign and malignant) are more likely to be present in older adults. Fine-needle aspiration and biopsy and contrast-enhanced computed tomographic scanning are the best techniques for evaluating these masses. An otolaryngology consultation for endoscopy and possible excisional biopsy should be obtained when a neck mass persists beyond four to six weeks after a single course of a broad-spectrum antibiotic.
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A Comprehensive Newborn Exam: Part I. General, Head and Neck, Cardiopulmonary - Article
ABSTRACT: A comprehensive newborn examination involves a systematic inspection. A Ballard score uses physical and neurologic characteristics to assess gestational age. Craniosynostosis is caused by premature fusion of the sutures, and 20% of children with this condition have a genetic mutation or syndrome. The red reflex assessment is normal if there is symmetry in both eyes, without opacities, white spots, or dark spots. If the red reflex findings are abnormal or the patient has a family history of pertinent eye disorders, consultation with an ophthalmologist is warranted. Newborns with low-set ears should be evaluated for a genetic condition. Renal ultrasonography should be performed only in patients with isolated ear anomalies, such as preauricular pits or cup ears, if they are accompanied by other malformations or significant family history. If ankyloglossia is detected, a frenotomy may be considered if it impacts breastfeeding. The neck should be examined for full range of motion because uncorrected torticollis can lead to plagiocephaly and ear misalignment. Proper auscultation is crucial for evaluation of the bronchopulmonary circulation with close observation for signs of respiratory distress, including tachypnea, nasal flaring, grunting, retractions, and cyanosis. Benign murmurs are often present in the first hours of life. Pulse oximetry should be performed in a systematic fashion before discharge.
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The student beat the mentor.
Keith Rocco of Wallingford, who spent his teen years working on Ted Christopher's crew, did what he had to do to hold off the track's all-time winningest driver and capture his first NASCAR Whelen All-American Series SK Modified championship at Stafford.
Rocco finished second behind Woody Pitkat in the 40-lap feature to clinch the championship.
Rocco needed to finish seventh or better to win the title, but it was a tenuous day as he raced with Christopher, the 6-time track champion, at the front most of the race.
But he was able to finally relax when Christopher spun and slowed to a stop in turn 3 on lap 37.
"I don't think anybody would ever expect to hear me say I was happy with a second place finish," said Rocco, who finished the season with two wins at Stafford. "We got to the top-3 there and we just kind of rode. I don't think anybody ever heard those words out of my mouth that I would just ride in second or third."
Rocco finished the season with 702 points. Christopher, who ended up 13th in the race, finished the season with 666 points.
For Rocco, it was the perfect way to send out his car owners Jean-Guy and Brigitte Poulin, who decided their 20th season as short track owners would be their last.
"I can't say enough for [Jean-Guy and Brigitte Poulin]," said Rocco, who has driven for the team since 2005. "They put 110 percent into everything from the day they started to the day they finished."
Said Pitkat: "He grew up fast this year. He did an awesome job this year. He did a good job [Sunday] and I just want to congratulate him. He did an amazing job this year."
It was the division high fifth victory of the season for Pitkat, of Stafford. Jeff Baral of Enfield was third.


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The State Archives and Library Building, built in 1961, was designed to feature an expansive mural in its lobby to depict Texas' rich and intricate past. The mural, created by artists Peter Hurd and Peter Rogers, provides an artistic view of historical events, groups and individuals that shaped Texas history.
This exhibit features selected items from the Archives collections that illustrate stories told in this inspiring mural: life during Spanish rule, a key political figure of the Republic, a German pioneer who negotiated peace with the Native Americans, establishment of citizens' rights in a new nation, the path to statehood, and the story of the artistic vision of the mural "Texas Moves Towards Statehood" which has greeted visitors for the past 50 years.


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By Billy Atwell
9/14/2010 (5 years ago)
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
Voting Christians who are Republicans are overwhelmingly in agreement on their desire to end abortion, define marriage as between one man and one woman, protect religious liberty, and so on. So what is the strategy behind moving to less "sticky" issues? Will the Republican Party move the way the Democratic Party has in recent years and focus on issues which can be construed as somehow "safe" and of a purely "civic" nature?
Minority Leader John Boehner.
By Billy Atwell
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
9/14/2010 (5 years ago)
Published in Politics & Policy
WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - Influential Christian organizations are outspoken in their discouragement with the Republican Party's lack of leadership on what many call the "third leg" of the party's usual platform. Every Republican Party campaign platform consists of a firm stance on the economy, national security, and what are called social issues.
Lately, Republicans have been absent on social issues and are walking a bit limp as a result. Traditionally, "social issues" is a phrase used to refer to abortion, sex education, bioethical concerns, the definition of marriage, religious liberty, and others.Arguably, every issue has a social dimension. However, these issues have often been singled out.
The two main opponents of this neglect are the American Principles Project and the Manhattan Declaration. The American Principles Project is joining a grassroots effort called "Plank 1." This effort says, "Our nation is only as strong as its core components: families, neighborhoods, churches and other religious communities, marriage and the voluntary associations of many types that make for a vibrant civil society."
It lays out a principled devotion to protect the sanctity of life, traditional marriage, religious liberty, the rights of parents in teaching ethical values, charitable giving, a reformation of poverty programs, abstinence sex education programs, honoring our soldiers, and defining our rights as endowed by God, our Creator.
The American Principles Project has called on its members to contact Minority Leader John Boehner, a Catholic member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Senator Mitch McConnell, and Republican National Committee Chairman Michale Steele to influence them in placing social issues back on their agenda and uphold the country's moral foundation.
The other initiative running through the same vein is the Manhattan Declaration. The Manhattan Declaration is a movement of Christians leaders and laity to restore and preserve the sanctity of life, the orthodox Christian definition of marriage, and religious liberty. It has been signed by 54 Catholic Bishops and Archbishops, and 3 Cardinals. It has also been signed and supported by leading Evangelical Protestants such as James Dobson, Tony Perkins, Chuck Colson, Dr. Timothy George, and Jim Daly.
Additionally, prominent Orthodox clerics and theologians have signed as well. With almost half a million signatures from lay Christians, the Manhattan Declaration sent out an email to all supporters calling on them to contact Rep. John Boehner and Republican Whip Rep. Eric Cantor to voice their dissent in the resent abandonment of social issues from the party platform.
The Republican Party has not issued any official edicts with regard to what issues will take precedent in the November elections. Recent addresses from Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele and leading Republican members of Congress have focused on the economy, jobs, the healthcare bill, and other issues that do not address the country's moral compass or critical moral and social issues. Christian religious leaders are worried that the final agenda will lack clear positions on these issues and that the Republican Party will move the way the Democratic Party has in recent years and focus on issues which can be construed as somehow "safe" and of a purely "civic" nature.
Abortion, abstinence education, empowering the family, and religious liberty have been important issues to Republicans, but in recent months they have become weak on mainstays traditionally used to unify their base. With all of the attacks on the ability of Christians to live out their faith publicly, many question the tactic of speaking to other issues instead.
Republicans voiced little-to-no negative reaction when the Mojave Desert cross was stolen off of a war memorial, or when crosses were removed from a Utah memorial to fallen Highway Patrol officers. In both cases the memorials were paid for and maintained by private citizens with private funds. In fact, in Utah, the crosses were removed not because of opposition from local citizens or family members of the police officers, but as a result of a suit filed by a Texas-based atheist group.
These violations of religious liberty invoked less reaction from Republicans than did the threat by a Florida pastor to burn the Koran. Republicans were vocal in opposition to violations of religious liberty against Muslims, but for Christians, who comprise most of their base, they have not been as adamant or outwardly concerned.
The most overt move towards federally legalizing, and protecting, the judicially manufactured "right" of homosexuals to "marry" came from Federal Judge Vaughn Walker. Judge Walker ruled that there was no legitimate reason to prevent homosexuals from marrying, and hence overturned California's Proposition 8, which was a voter-approved state constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman.
Republicans were astoundingly silent in their dissent to Judge Walker's opinion. Only religious leaders came forward to defend what they called a violation of Natural Law and the integrity of the family.
After instances such as these, and the presumed removal of moral issues from the Republican platform, many wonder, is the Republican Party abandoning the heart-and-soul of their constituency? Voting Christians who are Republicans are overwhelmingly in agreement on their desire to end abortion, define marriage as between one man and one woman, protect religious liberty, and so on.
So what is the strategy behind moving to less "sticky" issues? A move away from the traditional main-stays of the party platform seems imprudent, especially given their 9-point lead on Democrats (according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll).
The American Principles Project issued a press release making their position known and asked the Republican Party to not forget the moral causes that mean so much to Christian Americans. Dr. Robert George, Dr. Timothy George, and Chuck Colson, co-architects of the Manhattan Declaration, asked their signers to contact Republican leaders, which many did, and asked Republicans to reconsider their current path.
For many, the Republican Party stands as the last major political party upholding pro-life values, authentic marriage, and religious liberty as foundational to every other issue, whether it's of a civic or moral nature. Unless Republicans make moral and social issues more prevalent in their long list of priorities, more frustration and dissent can be expected from Christians who make up much of their base.
Billy Atwell contributes to Catholic Online, and blogs for The Point and the Manhattan Declaration. From the perspective of a two-time cancer survivor he encourages those afflicted with pain and struggling with faith. You can find all of his writings at For the Greater Glory.
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Lala Le Femme Summer 2012 Chic Designer Lawn Collection for 2012-2013
Chic designs and feminine is the signature collection of LALA and they are well known for making out class collection in these 2 categories, recently LALA launched the new volume of outfits which consist only on Chic designs and named as La Femme.
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LBJ and Lady Bird courtship love letters released
Thursday, February 14, 2013
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The entire collection of nearly 100 love letters written between Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson during their 2 1/2-month courtship in 1934 is being made available to the public for the first time beginning on Valentine's Day.
The letters at the LBJ Presidential Library at the University of Texas show an impatient Johnson, then a 26-year-old congressional aide, eager to marry 21-year-old Claudia Alta Taylor. She was known as "Bird," was a recent graduate of the university, and the future president had asked her to marry him a day after they met in September 1934. She wrote she loved him but "don't know how everlastingly."
They would tie the knot 10 weeks later in San Antonio and were married for 39 years. LBJ died 1973, Lady Bird in 2007.
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Isn't it mentioned in the TNG episode "First Contact" that the Federation Prime Directive was established because of first contact with the Klingons before they were a warp capable society? Did I just imagine that, because it's contradicted all over the place?
- Contact with the Klingons led to a change in first contact policies, not to the establishment of the Prime Directive. The Directive was likely in effect at the time the change to policy was made. As for contradictions, it's possible that, after the initial contacts seen on Enterprise, relations between the Federation and the Klingons became non-existant. (After all, would you want anything to do with people that were partially responsible for a virus that mutated your entire race?) Then, sometime around 2218, the Federation ran into the Klingons again, probably not knowing it was them for some reason or another. The result was disastrous, the Klingons became blood enemies of the Federation, and the Federation basically said "screw this, it's time for a change." --From Andoria with Love 02:24, 29 Oct 2005 (UTC)
- In "Bread and Circuses" Kirk claimed responsibilty for drafting the Prime Directive, ironically. I think in the dialog, he said it was only recently enacted. But, I'd have to watch again and check on that.--Mike Nobody 02:30, 29 Oct 2005 (UTC)
- All that was said about the prime directive in "Bread and Circuses" was that it was in full force when the SS Beagle chrash-landed on 892-IV in 2261. It never said how long it had been in force, although it seems to have not been too long before that. --From Andoria with Love 02:54, 29 Oct 2005 (UTC)
- It was A Private Little War in which Kirk suggest it was his report that caused the Prime Directive to come into being. It was A Piece of the Action in which Kirk said the Prime Directive had not been enacted, but that was referring to 100 years ago. --TOSrules 03:33, 29 Oct 2005 (UTC)
- Indeed he did. "No interference with normal social development. I'm not only aware of it, my survey 13 years ago recommended it." Of course, that could have just meant that he recommended no cultural contamination for that planet; it doesn't necessarily mean the prime directive was not in effect at the time. In other words, he suggested that further Starfleet interference with the planet's culture should be avoided - that the prime directive should be enacted for that planet. Knowhatimean? --From Andoria with Love 21:04, 29 Oct 2005 (UTC)
- An orbital survey is enough to know if that planet needed the prime directive. The Prime Directive doesn't need someone to recommending it to be applied. --TOSrules 21:25, 20 Nov 2005 (UTC)
- One would think so. Who knows? I just don't know why they would wait nearly a whole century after the founding of the Federation to decide, "Hey, you know what? The Vulcans were right!" I also don't see why it would take one lieutenant's report to stir Starfleet into action and create the Prime Directive. Here's hoping it gets explained in a future Trek series/movie. --From Andoria with Love 07:39, 21 Nov 2005 (UTC)
- As another famous Captain once said, "I don't pretend to understand Brannigan's Law, I just enforce it."--Tim Thomason 23:44, 29 Oct 2005 (UTC)
- Just to be clear, the episode TNG: "First Contact" said nothing about the Prime Directive. The dialogue is: Picard - "Chancellor, no starship mission is more dangerous than first contact. We never know what we face when we open the door to a new world. How will we be greeted? What are the dangers? Centuries ago, a disastrous first contact with the Klingon Empire led to decades of war. It was decided then that we must do surveillance before making contact. It was a controversial decision. But I believe it prevents more problems than it creates." This raises questions as to what Picard meant by "decades of war" following first contact, but that is another discussion entirely . . . . Aholland 16:40, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
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I have reason to believe that the recent additions made by Valaraukar were a copyright violation. View this diff, and compare the information added with this DITL article (some info has been shifted around to fit our article, but the information, grammar and styling remain identical. I have reverted the changes made, and restored to last non-copyvio version. If it proves necessary, I will have to delete the article, and recreate the non-copyvio version. -- Michael Warren | Talk 22:27, Aug 28, 2004 (CEST)
- MediaWiki 1.4 lets you undelete selected revisions, so you might want to delete the article, and then undelete everything prior to the copyvio being added. Angela 23:44, 2 Mar 2005 (GMT)
Minor ridges
I restored Lincolnian's observation some Klingons only having one ridge. It is a valid point especially with regard to Chang and Azetbur. -- Krevaner 23:42, 7 Mar 2005 (GMT)
Does anyone have a good idea where to include the fact, that Klingons view the hammer as a symbol of power? Kennelly 14:51, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
- "Birthright, Part I", I believe --Alan del Beccio 02:58, 17 Sep 2005 (UTC)
Cast members
When did Ethan Phillips wear Klingon makeup? Excelsior 20:30, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- In "The Killing Game" or II -- Kobi - (Talk) 20:41, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- When did Scott Bakula wear Klingon makeup? 23:30, 21 Aug 2005
- In "Divergence" he has a tiny ridgeline on his forehead due to his involvement with the Klingon genetic augment cure.--Tim Thomason 06:26, 22 Aug 2005 (UTC)
- When did Scott Bakula wear Klingon makeup? 23:30, 21 Aug 2005
- The background info notes that The only Star Trek cast members, besides Michael Dorn and Roxann Dawson, to have worn the full Klingon makeup include Avery Brooks, Colm Meaney, Rene Auberjonois, Kate Mulgrew, Ethan Phillips and Scott Bakula.
- It should be noted that Bakula did not wear the full makeup. -- When it rains... it pours 17:03, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
- The same is true for Ethan Phillips, he only wore his regular Talaxian make-up with very small ridges, a darker complexion and fake teeth. --Jörg 17:14, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
The trouble, with...
- "Klingons suffer from certain allergies, most notably a strong reaction to small furry animals such as tribbles. (TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles")"
...I removed, because I don't remember anyone sneezing or having an alergic reaction to the tribbles. Odo joked (to get Worf away from them) "Worf is... alergic, to tribbles". And also, the Tribbles reacted TO the klingons, not the other way around. - AJHalliwell 01:44, 20 Aug 2005 (UTC)
- Actually, the Klingons did also react to the tribbles: They were totally repulsed by them. But that's not really an allergic reaction. Spatula 22:19, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Removed prehistory
- I removed the following section that was added after this article is featured because a) the entire paragraph is written as non-canon speculation b) none of it is cited and c) it appears to be completely contributed by an IP address (which means it does need to be scrutinized moreso than it would from a major contributing player):
- Little is known of the Klingons prior to the establishment of the Empire. Klingons being a prideful race with a closed society, they are averse to sharing their secrets. Being violent, belligerent, and anti-intellectual, it is hard to imagine that the Klingons developed their high level of technology and science (including warp drive) by themselves. Klingon religion also states that the first Klingons destroyed the gods who created them. Klingon physiology with its redundancies and great strength is also ideal for military operations. Based on the available information, some have theorized that the Klingons originated as a vassal race. They were possibly bred or genetically engineered as "shock troops", and then turned on their masters.
- Signed, Alan del Beccio 02:58, 17 Sep 2005 (UTC)
The Prehistory removed is similar to/cribbed from the history given in the Star Trek Novel "Ishmael" by Barbara Hambly. -- Soukey : 10 Oct 2005
- I don't like how this page opens with a big pic of the emblem, it's suppose to be about the species not the empire. Does anyone mind if I remove it? Jaf 13:49, 28 Nov 2005 (UTC)Jaf
- I don't mind its removal. If kept or moved within the article, it should be dated as TOS-era emblems had different colors. Aholland 17:17, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Was it ever mentioned how long their average lifespan is? If several TOS Klingons were around in the TNG era, it is likely longer than humans'.--This user is not Jesus 08:22, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
- I thought Klingon lifespans were actually supposed be shorter than humans. I seem to remember a quote "the shortest flame burns brightest" or something from some episode.... OK thats not much to go on obviously... sorry, maybe its just my imagination. --Anonymous Coward 01, October 2006
- We don't know the exact lifespan, but we do know that Kang was in command of a starship in 2268 (the actor playing Kang was 46 at the time). It wouldn't be until 2370 (102 years later) that he would be die, and even that what not of natural causes. Similar stories for Kor and Koloth. -- Jaz talk 07:26, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
Klingon aging
This is my chart for Klingon Growth, taking in account the Klingon years that have passed. Right now it is 100% Alexander based. I don't know of any other rapid aging Klingons seen in Star Trek. Alexander is the lynch pin, the fact he said he was three years old within one human year (Season to season about a year distance) the chart works off a one earth year is three Klingon year idea. --TOSrules 17:26, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
|Earth Years
|Qo'noS Years
|Physical Appearance
|4 Earth Years
|10 Earth Years
|16 Earth Years
- It should be remembered that Alexander's mother was only part-Klingon. His rapid aging could have something to do with his slightly exotic biology.
- The article on Qo'noS says that one Qo'noS year equals 1.5 Earth years. 126.96.36.199
Production Issue?
Have we considered that this "Klingon Growth" is actually a similar condition to that found on many television sitcoms, soap operas, and other media? I mean there are plenty of times where a baby is born on a show in one season and by the beginning of the next season is replaced by a child much older (Growing Pains, Family Ties, Full House). This seems to be a typical logistical issue with regard to television and I think the article seems to take this a little too far.
I think age issue as it pertains to Alexander is just a production gaffe and should be removed as non-canon or italicized as a background note. --Topher208 12:58, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
- I would agree, except that Trek provided us with an example where it was explained in another child, thereby establishing to me that the rules are different for Star Trek. --OuroborosCobra talk 14:31, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
Spellings to follow the Dictionary and Galactic Traveler book?
I'm wondering is there ever going to be any effort to include the Okrand spelling of Klingon words in the entries? For instance veq'largh instead of or appended to Fek'lhr or qel'argh appended to Key'lhr etc. - Wejvagh 21:45, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Klingon anatomy description
As an anatomy specialist (IRL) I thought I would make some comments about Klingon anatomy, as shown in the diagram presented in the article.
The body is that of an adult male. For illustration we see only the left half of the subject dissected; the right half is complete and clothed. The intersection between the two halves is slightly to the left of the midsaggital line. The diagram omits the lower limbs below the ankle joints. Comparison is made with the human adult male.
The skull displays the familiar cranial ridges associated with this species. It is robustly constructed. There may be a flap of bone covering the superior temporal foramen which would lend strength to the zygomatic arch. There appears to be a plate of bone in the anterior triangle of the neck, protecting the airway and larynx.
There is no sternum visible (or it has been removed). The rib architecture is very different from the segmental arrangement seen in humans; instead a multi-articulated bony reticulum seems to protect the thoracic contents. This might require respiration to be more diaphragmatic in this species. In the mediastinum the heart can be seen.
The abdomen displays four organs. Two of these resemble the human liver (possibly stomach) and colon; the others are less identifiable. No genitalia or organs of reproduction are visible.
The upper limb articulates with the thorax via a robust clavicle-scapula articulation. The humerus has an un-named paired bone alongside, whose head articulates with the upper third of the diaphysis. The elbow and forearm are similar to those in humans. The forearm is prone and terminates in a carpus in which seven carpal bones may be seen; the metacarpals and phalanges are arranged as in humans.
The pelvic bones differ greatly from those in humans. The acetabulum is more inferiorly placed and its opening is directed more anteriorly. The angulation of the femoral neck is straighter and the head is larger. An un-named paired bone lies alongside the femur and articulates with it at the lesser trochanter. Both this bone and the femur appear to articulate directly with an enlarged patella which occupies the whole centre of the knee joint. The tibia and fibula are similarly arranged to those in humans.
In summary this individual displays several anatomical differences from the adult human. His robust musculoskeletal system denotes considerable physical strength and resistance to injury. Vivienne marcus 13:16, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
...son of...
Does anyone know when Klingons started to be called "X, son of Y" in the series? 220.127.116.11 01:15, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
- The earliest reference I can find is from Worf, son of Mogh in TNG: "Sins of the Father." Of course, it would later gain steam in the series ("Redemption"; "Redemption II"; "Birthright"; "Rightful Heir") and by the time of DS9 was used by various Klingons to introduce themselves (note "Apocalypse Rising" and "Sons and Daughters").--Tim Thomason 01:42, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. 220.127.116.11 01:28, 10 March 2007 (UTC)


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And NASCAR officials wonder why participants involved in regional divisions feel like the sanctioning body hardly recognizes their existence?
Yes, NASCAR's three national divisions, the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series - a division France referred to Wednesday as the "Craftsman World Truck Series" Wednesday - will have a new points system in 2011.
The Whelen Modified Tour, a staple of the Connecticut short track racing scene and one of six regional divisions operated by NASCAR, will not use the new 43-to-1 points system introduced by NASCAR Wednesday.
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"Beginning this year, we'll award points in all NASCAR series' by one-point increments," France said.
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In their long fight for more cooperation with sanctioning body, better purses and a bigger slice of the publicity pie, those around the Whelen Modified Tour have often used the cliché "the redheaded stepchild" in describing their existence in the eyes of NASCAR's upper management.
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