too many topics,

    too little time.

Donate old memory cards and batteries to a needy school:
At the budget-crunched Brooklyn public high school where I teach VJ-U (the art of live visual performance), batteries and memory cards for the school’s cameras are in very short supply. Recently I dug up my older, smaller memory cards and donated them to the school. If you have a spare SD or xD memory card or a pack of AA batteries you could donate, it would help these very talented, ambitious students to develop their skills and ability to express themselves through photos and video. You can send them directly to the school at:

Urban Assembly School of Music and Art
Attn: Diana Hernandez
49 Flatbush Avenue Extension Fl 8
Brooklyn, NY 11201

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this seems like a great idea. my stuff is in chicago.

this blog was born on the 28th of december…. that day is 3 days past. heh

News | 12/24/07 U.S.’s first Carnegie Library in jeopardy :
Despite efforts by a wide range of supporters — including two Coweta County organizations — the future of the nation’s first Carnegie library looks bleak.

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this is just a sad statement on the provision of public services through libraries. ‘we want better, but we will forgo what we have’. Downsizing the library is a bad move, it should instead be endowed by local businesses.

Does morality affect economic performance? Empirical evidence | vox - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from Europe’s leading economists:
But perhaps the most important question of all concerns the policy implications of these findings. What policy instruments are more appropriate to an environment with adverse cultural traits, and which policy interventions ought to be avoided? Does political decentralisation facilitate the acquisition of favourable values, and is self-government something that can be learnt through experience? And what can be done to facilitate this collective learning process? The promotion of economic development would become much easier if we could answer these questions.
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what actually is the implications of this research? is it anything different than political theory has said and empirically founded in tens of hundreds of examples, narratives, and other evidence?

School Library Learning 2.0:

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some nice tutorials for web 2.0 and library 2.0

Academic Commons special issue on Cyberinfrastructure and the Liberal Arts (December 02007):
Edited by David L. Green and dedicated to the memory of the remarkable digital and radical historian Roy Rosenzweig (1950-2007), the December 02007 issue of Academic Commons brings together a series of papers on Cyberinfrastructure and the Liberal Arts.
Source: DIGLIB mailing list, 02007 12 17
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some good articles.

Open meaning:
This all started for me when Jeremy
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I think Pa^2 might be pointing more toward detraditionalization as a system of delegitimation or loss of our grounding narratives. People are generalizably cynical, in that they do not accept that the groundings of meaning and truth are unbound from their system of expectation of politics, ethics, and social norms.

www.tmttlt.com - Top 100 Prolific Bloggers:
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well i suppose.. i think i’m technically almost at 5000 or 6000 posts now, but who knows.

Mazaika.com :: Vintage Santa Xmas postcard gallery. Old Soviet postcard collection. Software Solutions for Photo mosaics, Digital Photo and ASCII-Art.:

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classic stuff

Crisis in the meaning of meaning:
Meaning was the once-natural sequence of being, knowing, interpreting, judging, willing and acting . It is this sequence which no longer operates as it did in earlier times.
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Sean has some thoughts that inspired me to respond a bit.

BBC NEWS | Business | The US sub-prime crisis in graphics:
The US sub-prime crisis in graphics
The US sub-prime mortgage crisis has lead to plunging property prices, a slowdown in the US economy, and billions in losses by banks. It stems from a fundamental change in the way mortgages are funded.
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the best explanation of the sub-prime crisis that i’ve seen.

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Best Buy Handing Out C&D Letters for Christmas at Improv Everywhere:
Best Buy

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best buy joins walmart on my boycott list. i bought a fair amount from them in the past, but now they are picking on laughing squid, who should contact chilling effects asap.

How Do I Look? (Or: Paintings from “Understanding Human Behavior”):
“It’s more like a handbook on how to live a life of quiet desperation. With a few pictures of boobs in it.”
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Accordionguy posts these cool constructs of self and other images.