too many topics,

    too little time.

Tom Gray, the court’s Chief Justice, has written an opinion that affirms the sovereign immunity of the institution while removing any immunity from campus administrators.

[From The Greentree Gazette:
Personal liability for university administrators comes into its own
]

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this is a huge impingement of freedoms.

MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Science, Action and Intergrated Environmental Research

Lorrae van Kerkhoff
The Australian National University
[Paperback]

[From SensePublishers Online Bookstore]

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first book in the book series is out.

Internet Memes

[From Internet Memes]

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interesting timeline of internet memes.

Billy Bragg put on a great show. The show openned with CR Avery, who does a mix of beat boxing, spoken word poetry, and singing. Avery’s song, ‘Folk Singer’ is a must hear as is his sing along ‘love song’ was an interesting mix of his talents.

Billy Bragg played an extended set mixing his classics, more folk oriented materials, and some covers. He played one of his unrecorded songs about, ‘aging clash fans’, it was a great tribute to the spirit of the clash and the people they enabled and inspired.

Throughout the night he was interacting with children in the audience. One young gentleman of around 10 years of age shouted a title and it took quite a while to figure out the song, SugarDaddy, but eventually toward the end of the evening, the request was changed to A New England, with the Kirsty Maccoll version, which was a great sing along song. He also took a request from a very young girl who was accompanied to the front by her sister, she drew a picture for Billy, it was a picture of a rainbow with a rock and and arrow, the rock and arrow meant rock on. Her name was Maya and Billy lead us in a rousing version of The Internationale in support of Canadian Autoworkers Union at her behest. He also sang, there is power in a union, the myth of trust, the space race is over, and several other great political songs. Audience participation was interesting and the venue was small enough that everyone felt involved.

He played Farmboy, I Almost Killed You, Sing them Back Home, O Freedom, Mr. Love and Justice from his new album. He ended with I Have Faith, which is his statement in the faith in humanity to make the world a better place.

All in all, Rochelle and I had a great time, the night was full of humor, politics and music. I hope to see him in concert again.

Welcome to the Learning4Content hub

Building capacity for open education togethe

[From Learning4Content - WikiEducator]

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interesting resource

This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you’re looking for. We provide a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which we not only describe the tool’s features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers.

[From digitalresearchtools / FrontPage]

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very handy

tonight i’m heading downtown with my lovely wife in order to do something that i’ve never done which is to see a live music show by billy bragg. I’ve been to live music in the burg, but didn’t get out to any in nyc or chicago yet, and well i’ve never really done one like this. should be fun.

[From Teach the Controversy - Intelligently designed t-shirts urging you to show both sides of every story ]

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great t-shirts.

Today is bloomsday, the day of the year that we celebrate Ulysses by drinking guinness….

Walk of Ideas

[From Walk of Ideas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]

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this is a brilliant idea.

10 peaches

1 cup skim milk

1 tablespoon fresh grated ginger

2 tablespoons sugar

2 shots rum

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

step 1.

peel peaches…. bring big pot of water to boil, when water is boiling make small pot of ice water too. put peaches in boiling water for 2 minutes, then transfer to ice water, then the peels slide off. 3 or 4 at a time is best

step 2.

remove pits from peaches and mush them with hands

step 3

blend peaches to smooth consistency, mix in other ingredients, blend until smooth and creamy, though some lumps will add character.

possible additions: 1/4 cup of yogurt, pine nuts, chopped figs, nectarine bits.

A copyright is supposed to protect a creator’s intellectual property and ensure that the copyright holder’s work isn’t nefariously misappropriated. However, they don’t always work so well; just ask anyone who has fond memories of Napster circa 2000. Not all copyright battles are Metallica-initiated, though. Take, for example, these three instances of infringement.

[From mental_floss Blog » How Chuck Berry Became a Beach Boy (and other copyright infringement cases)]

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nice set of copyright infringement examples.

DIRECTORY OF LEARNING TOOLS

[From Directory of over 2,300 E-Learning Tools - Free and Commercial]

This is a great resource with many interesting tools. Some CMS and Library tools are included too.

Don’t Become a Scientist.

[From Hacker News | Don't Become a Scientist.]

interesting insider/outsider discussion about the workings of modern science and the appreciations of that.