too many topics,

    too little time.

Memememe:
A fun meme, from Philobiblon Via http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/2005/02/memememe.html:

“which authors have you read more than ten books by?”

(Obviously, this presumes extremely productive authors.)

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This could take some time….

Theory and Philosophy
Jean Baudrillard

Pierre Bourdieu

Deleuze/Guattari

Michel Foucault

Plato

Paul Virilio

(I could probably list Aristotle, and a bunch of other ancients here too)

Literature

J.G. Ballard

Charles Bukowski

Umberto Eco

Jack Kerouac

Hunter S. Thompson

General fiction
Dave Barry

Ian Fleming

Gary Gygax

Alan Moore (yes the comics, but they are very good)

Robert B. Parker

Don Pendleton

Terry Pratchett

Spider Robinson

(there are probably others)

<a href=”http://www.asia-oss.org/march2005/china_oss_week.html”>china oss week</a>

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interesting.

MilkandCookies - Channel Four 17 15 16 21:

interesting…. i wonder what the policy goal is…

real life vs internet (it’s meant to be funny but it’s so true) - video:

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i’ve posted this before, but it is always good to review the differences.

Grounded: Millionaire John Gilmore stays close to home while making a point about privacy:
“Are they just basically saying we just can’t travel without identity papers? If that’s true, then I’d rather see us go through a real debate that says we want to introduce required identity papers in our society rather than trying to legislate it through the back door through regulations that say there’s not any other way to get around,” Gilmore said. “Basically what they want is a show of obedience.”

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This and the ’secret law’….. that’s what i’m against, unwarranted secrecy justifying tyranny and obedienc.

The Fox:
shane’s the fox….

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i’m the pilot:

You are the pilot.

Saint Exupery’s ‘The Little Prince’ Quiz.
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Inside Cheeky’s Office:
I fill my office with a lot of silly and fun things. This is one of my absolute favorites (in fact, I’ve purchased a couple of these for colleagues as gifts).

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I like IT. i want one.

Inside Cheeky’s Office:
I fill my office with a lot of silly and fun things. This is one of my absolute favorites (in fact, I’ve purchased a couple of these for colleagues as gifts).

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I like IT. i want one.

FOSS and OASIS:
Groklaw just published an open letter from representatives of the FOSS community directed against a new IPR policy at OASIS. However, I do wonder if there was any discussion behind the scenes at first before taking this step. The IETF just might be next…

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i do hope someone will lay the smackdown on ietf’s new policy, which is one step away from foolishly corporately aligned, and is likely pushing the organization farther from the innovative engineer base than i think it should.

FOSS and OASIS:
Groklaw just published an open letter from representatives of the FOSS community directed against a new IPR policy at OASIS. However, I do wonder if there was any discussion behind the scenes at first before taking this step. The IETF just might be next…

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i do hope someone will lay the smackdown on ietf’s new policy, which is one step away from foolishly corporately aligned, and is likely pushing the organization farther from the innovative engineer base than i think it should.

Bagpuss:
Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss

Bagpuss, oh hear what I sing

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are they bringing bagpuss back?

Thomas L. Friedman: The sliding dollar:
“Given the number of people who have refinanced their homes with floating-rate mortgages, the falling dollar is a kind of sword of Damocles, getting closer and closer to their heads,” Rothkopf said. “And with any kind of sudden market disruption - caused by anything from a terror attack to signs that a big country has gotten queasy about buying dollars - the bubble could burst in a very unpleasant way.”

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yep, the knot will be undone.

Having winter fun like snowbody’s business.:
The problem is that in my discipline students often expect the coursework to be easy, the content be ‘common sense,’ particularly in the lower level classes. I always get a lot of students who take this sort of class their senior year hoping it will be an easy filler only to realize they’ve made a serious mistake.

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i generally get the same thing “its theory, it is just common sense”. good luck with that….. students need to ‘learn’ and they need to be graded’ on that learning….

Library Journal - Revenge of the Blog People!:
Who are the Blog People?

It is obvious that the Blog People read what they want to read rather than what is in front of them and judge me to be wrong on the basis of what they think rather than what I actually wrote. Given the quality of the writing in the blogs I have seen, I doubt that many of the Blog People are in the habit of sustained reading of complex texts. It is entirely possible that their intellectual needs are met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs. In that case, their rejection of my view is quite understandable.

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wow….. talk about an uninformed assumption.

Promoting the global information commons: A statement by IFLA to WSIS Tunis PrepCom2, 2005:
Finally, we invite you to our pre-Summit conference in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt, on 10 and 11 November 2005 at which we will show how libraries and information services around the world are realising the global information society for all.

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i wonder, i’d prolly never get funding for it…. but…. this is before ppf, which is before…. wsis… could i go to all three?