Web Pages as Graphs

http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/

Java applet that graphically represents the design elements of a Web page.

blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags

Queer Theory

https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/gsc/students/ally/queertheory/

Queer Theory (condensed)

There are a lot of parts of queer culture that can seem intimidating to an outsider, not the least of them being various dialogues that have been going on within the community an also in academia. But having just a basic background on a few of these dialogues can help give you a grounding that will be useful in discussions about gender and sexuality you find yourself in. Queer Theory is essentially the intellectualization of sexual orientation and some of the issues that surround sexuality and its origins.

Anne Fausto-Sterling’s “The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough” and Michael S. Kimmel’s “Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame and Silence in the Construction of Gender and Identity” in Women, Culture and Society: A Reader, Barbara J. Balliet, ed.

Judith Butler’s “Imitation and Gender Insubordination” and Marjorie Garber’s “Spare Parts: The Surgical Construction of Gender” in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, Abelove et al. ed.

Chapter Two, “The Invention of Sex”, in Jeffrey Weeks’ book Sexuality.

Janice M. Irvine’s “Toward a ‘Value-Free’ Science of Sex: The Kinsey Reports” in Sexualities in History: A Reader, Kim M. Phillips, ed.

“Kinsey’s Seven-Point Scale of Sexual Identity” in Sexuality, Robert A. Nye ed.

Heterosexism and Heterosexual Privilege

https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/gsc/students/ally/heterosexism/

All you men out there, have your parents ever asked you if there is a special woman in your life? If you have a girlfriend? For women, have your friends ever asked you if you’ve been out with any interesting men lately? If you have a boyfriend? Have you ever considered why they automatically ask you about someone of the opposite sex? The basis for this assumption is heterosexism, the assumption that everyone is or should be heterosexual and, in some cases, the belief that heterosexuality is superior to other forms of sexual orientation and expression.

Heterosexism pervades all aspects of society, from your parent’s inquiries to magazine ads, to public policy, most social constructions are based on the assumption that everyone’s primary romantic, emotional, physical and sexual attractions are to someone of the opposite sex. Where does this leave LGBT folks? How does this influence their sense of self, their self-esteem? This lack of the presence of LGBT people and issues in the news, pop culture and everyday life stigmatizes LGBT people and makes them feel invisible. Being LGBT becomes “weird” or “abnormal” because it is not seen openly in different facets of society.

Heterosexual Privilege is a big part of heterosexism and the two are inextricably linked. What can you do about heterosexism and heterosexual privilege? The answer is simple: BE AWARE. Be aware of your own assumptions and those of the people around you. Do not assume that your friends are romantically interested in or attracted to people of the opposite sex. Watch television and know that a large segment of the population is not being adequately represented on the news or in sitcoms. Question your own assumptions and those of others. Don’t assume that everyone is straight!

Managing Information (and Privilege)

http://www.lessig.org/blog/2005/06/managing_information_and_privi.html

Managing Information (and Privilege) June 1, 200

Guest posts by Ian Ayres and Jennifer Gerarda Brown, authors of Straightforward: How to Mobilize Heterosexual Support for Gay Rights.Princeton University Press, 2005. ISBN-13: 978-0691121345

As Larry mentioned, we’ve just published Straightforward - which makes the argument that mobilizing heterosexual support is crucial to making progress on securing equal rights for gay, lesbian, and bisexual citizens. The book is packed with advice about what people can do - on personal and public levels.

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The first chapter of our book discusses how we might set out to manage heterosexual privilege. We highlight three approaches: exploiting, renouncing, and disabling privilege. We also suggest informational strategies for implementing each approach. We’ll try to suggest factors that counsel allies to speak out specifically as heterosexuals, and others that suggest it’s better to leave sexual orientation ambiguous.

Apple: Shell-Scripting Primer

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/OpenSource/Conceptual/S....html

Shell scripts are a fundamental part of the Mac OS X programming environment. As a ubiquitous feature of UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems, they represent a way of writing certain types of command-line tools in a way that works on a fairly broad spectrum of computing platforms.

Because shell scripts are written in an interpreted language whose power comes from executing external programs to perform processing tasks, their performance can be somewhat limited. However, because they can execute without any additional effort on nearly any modern operating system, they represent a powerful tool for bootstrapping other technologies. For example, the autoconf tool, used for configuring software prior to compilation, is a series of shell scripts.

You should read this document if you are interested in learning the basics of shell scripting. This document assumes that you already have some basic understanding of at least one procedural programming language such as C. It does not assume that you have very much knowledge of commands executed from the terminal, though, and thus should be readable even if you have never run the Terminal application before

Men Stare at Crotches: Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/14/men_stare_at_crotche.html

The Online Journalism Review reports on Jakob Nielsen’s use of an eye-tracker to look at how different people read the Web — particularly news. There are lots of interesting findings, but the best is the revelation that men fixate on any visible genital areas in photos — even animals’ crotches come in for a good eyeballing.