crime and punishment (Score 1)

I thought it was a touchy idea when I first heard about it as well. And I thought it would be impossible to get kids to work a computer well, much less not do anything bad with them.

But there they are 2 years after I have learned that fact and they're going strong making websites (static and Flash, database driven and not) for such people like LeMond/Trek Bikes, Marquette University, UW-Milwaukee, Northwestern Mutual, Amoco/BP, and the City of Chicago's Commercial Club and Civic Commitee. They're also developing online applications for the likes of Milwaukee Public Schools, Verizon Wireless, and they're making they're own content management system that's more complete and well tested than most of the CMS's I've seen by far...and they haven't done anything criminal with them.

They laugh at WYSIWIGS about as much as they're probably laughing at the massive amount of ignorance flying around this discussion and while people are busy lambasting other people who are actually doing something productive and good and actually succeeding in reforming lives.

And the've been around for more than 6 years now and they're expanding when everyone else is pretty much having a hard time.