too many topics,

    too little time.

Print Story: New software detects Web interference on Yahoo! News:
Increasingly worried over Internet providers’ behavior, a nonprofit has released software that helps determine whether online glitches are innocent hiccups or evidence of deliberate traffic tampering.
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we needed something like this. we just need it built into every OS now.

smart kids:
The Secret to Raising Smart Kids
Hint: Don’t tell your kids that they are.
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it can be very disempowering to be told you are smart, or smarter… what does that mean anyway? intelligence varies across too many dimensions to really make that claim too strongly as far as i’m concerned. there are people who are demonstrably disadvantaged in any number of ways in terms of mental faculties, but past the demonstrable, I’m not sure i believe in ’smart’ as much as I might have a few years ago.

Continental Philosophy » Blog Archive » E-Texts: Guattari, Molecular Revolution:
Guattari, Felix. Molecular Revolution: Psychiatry and Politics (Peregrines). New York City: Puffin, 1984.
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this is a good resource to get started on for some of guattari’s work.

Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark’s clock | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited:
“The Latin Quarter is where the concept of human rights came from, it’s the centre of everything. The Panthéon clock is in the middle of it. So it’s a bit like the clock at the centre of the world.”

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this is the way the world works…. I like it.

YouTube - Nationl Anthem Fenway Park:
National Anthem Fenway Park
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the beauty of this is that the crowd kicked in and supported this young gentleman’s song.

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now with a man in a faraday suit, watch his feet and the lights he holds… musical tesla coils.

Australia’s Prime Minister Defeated After Four Terms - New York Times:
SYDNEY, Nov. 24 — Prime Minister John Howard of Australia suffered a comprehensive defeat today, with a coalition led by his Liberal Party losing its majority in parliament.
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yay! congratulations australia

Nemester:
Nemester
The new way to make enemies™
Nemester is an online community that connects paranoids, egotists, villains, and monomaniacs through networks of competing agendas and incompatable ideologies for bitter conflicts, mutual loathing, or to find their one, true nemesis
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and another

Introvertster:

Introvertster is an online community that prevents stupid people and friends from harrassing you online.
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another knockoff, somewhat funny product, but… the ‘flood with packets’ has uses.

Archivalia: Usage of Creative Commons by cultural heritage organisations:
Usage of Creative Commons by cultural heritage organisations
http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/cc2007

Snapshot and case studies of current usage of Creative Commons (and other open content) licences by cultural heritage organisations in the UK
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this is a worthwhile study, i wonder if there is funding to do a comparable study in the u.s.

What if my American Girl doll had an avatar in Second Life named Michael Finnegan…:
On the way to school this morning I was telling my son about the store and he turns to me and says, “What if there was an American Girl store in Second Life? And what if your American Girl doll in Second Life had an avatar in Second Life? And what if your American Girl doll avatar in Second Life made a Facebook account? And what if…..”
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this fear is perhaps the most significant idea of ‘web 2.0′…. what if identity mattered and did not matter.

J. T. Gatto interviewed by Lennart Mogren, Sweden, March 2003:
gatto is a critic of the school system’s institutionalization.

2007 - number 9 - Philosophy : A cosmic responsibility | The UNESCO Courier | ISSN 1993-8616UNESCO.ORG:
Different approaches, varied concerns, but one certainty: philosophy can’t stay in its ivory tower. It provides a weapon against dogma and manipulation. And, to cite one of Jostein Gaarder’s ideas, philosophers have a cosmic responsibility.
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Some interesting articles in this weeks unesco courier

University viewpoint: the University of Warwick on ‘The challenge of global education and research’ « GlobalHigherEd:
The challenge of global education and research

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Nigel Thrift writes on the new global education.