too many topics,

    too little time.

$6 stapler doesn’t use staples: “Mark Frauenfelder:
Treehugger reports on a cute-as-a-button stapler that doesn’t use staples.

Instead using the tiny pieces of metal that add up to lots waste, this ingenious little device joins your papers by punching a small, neat hole in your documents and folding the remaining flaps together for a secure binding.

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(Via Boing Boing.)

handy…..

ps. i’ll find my frog: “”

(Via .)

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i only got up to the 68th image….

Quick Reference Cards: “”

(Via .)

these might be handy….

The New York Times > Arts > Music > Artie Shaw, Big Band Leader, Dies at 94: “Artie Shaw’s virtuosity on his instrument, his groups’ highly original arrangements and his explosively romantic showmanship made him one of the most danced-to bandleaders of swing and one of the most listened-to artists of jazz. He quit performing in 1954 , but the many re-releases of his discs, a ghost band, and his informed but often sardonic comments on music and many other subjects kept him in the public ear.”

(Via .)

he’s not one of my favorites, but he was fun to listen to.

Engineers on TLDs: “

Engineers on TLDs: Do You Want Me With Fries? on CircleID by Vittorio Bertola:

This is why engineering solutions are not carved in stone, and young engineers have always been eating up old engineers since gave engineering to the world. That’s not because the old solutions were better than the new ones, or the opposite, but because new needs and new expectations arose among the users of the technology.

One word: Lovely!

I was one of the 30-something engineers who ‘ask’ for (IDN) TLD.

While I can sense some consensus on stage and off-stage of the need of IDN TLDs, the response I get from 60-something engineers (whose status is close to been ‘God’ right now) revolves around trying to get things 100% right before proceeding.

Don’t get me wrong: I have great respects for elderly engineers who has contributed so much to make Internet what is today - and I always value their wisdoms and advises. But seeking perfect solution is no difference then say ‘no’ - at least to the one making the request.

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(Via James Seng’s Blog.)

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it might also be that 60 year old engineers are embedded in institutions and with that they take a representational role of their understanding of those institution’s interests…. if you make money off of fewer tld’s and your friends make money off fewer…. you might, subconsciously, make more stringent ‘engineering decisions’ than you would otherwise. this is a form of sub-political governance.

The Growth and Development of Humanities Computing - Martyn Jessop, Ubiquity: “The application of computing to research problems in the humanities is not new. One of the acknowledged pioneers in this area, Father Robert Busa, began his work on the Index Thomisticus (an index to the works of the medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas”

(Via Online Learning Update.)

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textual computing is more what this seems to focus on…. i think there is much much more. this admits more, but when you talk about projects…. they tend to center on texual or textualizing data….

A new environment for learning?: “

If
you find yourself with some extra time over the next few days and are
feeling adventurous, you should set aside a moment or two and try out
the beta version of Croquet.

Croquet is a 3-D rendered
‘operating system’ and provides an environment for navigating through,
and representing, information. Users are represented by the
avatar of their choice (I ended up as a rabbit) and can wander through
different spaces. When I saw a demonstration earlier this year,
Croquet allowed users to navigate around in the rendered environment,
find and communicate with others and access their favourite desktop
applications from within the Croquet world.

Croquet is open
source and links computers through peer to peer communications.
It does not need a lot of infrastructure; I saw it working on a pair of
computers linked with an ethernet cable. My first exposure to
Croquet left me dumbfounded. It defies definition and must be
experienced.

Be forewarned - Croquet is really still a
beta. Documentation is sparse to non-existent and the people most
likely to benefit from playing with Croquet (in its current form) are
those who can troubleshoot code. Nevertheless, the application
has great promise and the potential to change the way we do many
things. One of its first possible uses is in creating 3-D
simulations (not unlike Ancient Spaces). Other potential applications include community and social environments as well as collaboration spaces.

You can get more information at http://www.opencroquet.org. I would love to hear what uses you find for Croquet!

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(Via EDUCAUSE Blogs -.)

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learning environment?

perhaps….

:::: open ::::: The Digital Artisans Manifesto: “We are not the passive victims of uncontrollable market forces and technological changes. Without our daily work, there would be no goods or services to trade. Without our animating presence, information technologies would just be inert metal, plastic and silicon. Nothing can happen inside cyberspace without our creative labour. We are the only subjects of history.
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(Via .)

it is worth a read.

Indeed.com | one search. all jobs.: “”

(Via .)

seems handy.

The Dude Prophetizes: ”
New shit has come to light, man.
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(Via Dan Says.)

coincidence….. i think so… remember of course that sept11 is 911 and 911 means emergency in the u.s.

State: Chiropractic school angers FSU professors: “A growing number of professors in the Florida State University College of Medicine are saying they will resign if FSU administrators continue to pursue a proposed chiropractic school.

‘I would no longer wish to volunteer my teaching energies to FSU medical school, should it encompass a school of chiropractic,’ wrote Dr. Ian Rogers, an assistant professor at FSU’s Pensacola campus, in a Dec. 15 e-mail. ‘This is plainly ludicrous!!!!’

The threatened resignations - at least seven to date, all from assistant professors who work part time - reflect a belief among many in the medical establishment that chiropractic is a ‘pseudo-science’ that leads to unnecessary and sometimes harmful treatments. Professors are even circulating a parody map of campus that places a fictional Bigfoot Institute, School of Astrology and Crop Circle Simulation Laboratory near a future chiropractic school.”

(Via .)

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it just makes me want to read ’society must be defended’ all over again…

7 assistant professors who work part time…… determine what a pseudo-science is… all i know is that i have friends that swear by chiropracty, and they seem happy enough.

The nonperson is unborn: The question of it’s/his/her rights: “Writers on the prochoice side generally accept the premise that pregnant human mothers carry developing human life. The departure usually occurs on philosophical arguments of what constitutes ‘personhood.’ Some prochoice advocates argue that the unborn lack essential qualities of being a person, and hence, do not obligate us morally. Whatever …”

(Via Science, Politics and Ethics.)

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the only person that has rights in regards to their life in the situation of a woman with unborn child is the woman. the unborn have no rights to anything. the state has a responsibility first to the mother, and then if that is met, to the child, but the responsibility to the child can never outweigh the mother on any consideration. the child is as such not a person, it has no rights, and any rights it will have for some time will be through its parents, even after it is born. the woman has several rights including a right to her body, a right to privacy, and a right to self-determination, no consideration of the unborn can overrule those rights.

if you disagree, you will have to find some evidence in some tradition to prove otherwise, but i think that if you honestly pursue the question, you will have to come to the above conclusion.

WorldNetDaily: Rumsfeld says 9-11 plane
’shot down’ in Pennsylvania: “During his surprise Christmas Eve trip to Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld referred to the flight being shot down – long a suspicion because of the danger the flight posed to Washington landmarks and population centers.”

(Via .)

sometimes the elderly forget what they aren’t supposed to say….

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Susan Sontag Dies at Age 71 at The Washington Post (reg. req’d) (Dec 28, 2004)

(Via .)

Death of Susan Sontag: “

Susan Sontag is dead from leukaemia; the New York Times has an obituary here.

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(Via Crooked Timber.)

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i’m probably the only one that will say this, but she was like Walter Benjamin with the insight of editors.