Gates Dismissive of $100 Laptop [1] ….: My take is that it may be both a publicity stunt and also a good project. Because, of course, the support issues wouldn’t go away if every child were given a $1000 laptop, would they? Nor would anyone sit there cranking the $1000 laptop; they’d stare at it […]
Read MoreI use bookends, and it is great for this. it has a notes category and i keep many of my notes in that, much the same way that you mention. But bookends is mac only. http://www.sonnysoftware.com/ . I am happy to trade endnote xml files produced from bookends with other people’s files if they have […]
Read MoreGates Dismissive of $100 Laptop [1]: Many technology leaders have praised a nonprofit effort supported by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to build a $100 laptop for schoolchildren in the developing world. But Bill Gates is not among the project’s fans. Mr. Gates, Microsoft’s chairman and chief software architect, was dismissive of the project in […]
Read Morewhatsonwhen.com – Procession of the Unmarried Women: Husbandless women eager to tie the knot seek assistance at this annual devotional procession in Palestrina, held in honour of St Anthony of Padua.Admittedly, the practice of segregating all single women in the village, dressing them in white robes and getting them to walk in line through the […]
Read MoreHelen Thomas Makes a Preemptive Attack: Q Does the President know that he’s in violation of international law when he advocates preemptive war? The U.N. Charter, Geneva, Nuremberg. We violate international law when we advocate attacking a country that did not attack us. MR. McCLELLAN: Helen, I would just disagree with your assessment. First of […]
Read MoreThe Australian: Muzzling of science [ 08mar06 ]: The censorship against which more and more leading Australian scientists are speaking out is both overt and covert. It exists in managerial directives not to communicate, to comment or otherwise share information and scientific conclusions with the public. It exists in the reprimand, the bullying, the sidelining, […]
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