software engineering summary: 2) Yrjo Engestrom, “When is a Tool? Multiple Meanings of Artifacts in Human Activity,” in Yrjo Engestrom, Learning, Working and Imagining, Painettu Kirjapaino Oma Ky:ssa, Jyvaskylassa, 1990, pp. 171-195. i’ve seen this one a few times. it is pretty good….

George W Bush and the 14 points of fascism – Project for the OLD American Century: http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm well…. it seems as if its fascism again….

Lawrence Lessig: http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/002279.shtml —- this is wisdom…. but there is also reaction… i mean whose permanent revolution do we want in the end? Bush’s? because that is what we have…. I’d rather see democratic action, bring back the SDS, reprise 1968, or at least try to change things for the better. no one reads Debord […]

Kerry Victory Speech: Good morning. I am proud to announce that I am the new leader of the Democratic Union of West and East Coasts (DUWEC). Late last night, it became clear that our nation is divided. On one side, the progressive and liberal secular values that made America, on the other, a radical expansionist, […]

Kerry Victory Speech: Good morning. I am proud to announce that I am the new leader of the Democratic Union of West and East Coasts (DUWEC). Late last night, it became clear that our nation is divided. On one side, the progressive and liberal secular values that made America, on the other, a radical expansionist, […]

Yahoo! News – U.S. faces ominous fiscal picture with huge deficit: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2027&e=17&u=/chitribts/usfacesominousfiscalpicturewithhugedeficit Comptroller General David Walker’s most troubling briefing paper shows the federal budget growing progressively larger until spending reaches nearly half the economy’s total output in 2040.

The people of America have failed us today: As Larry says, “It’s over. Let it go.” Jon is saying, “Don’t complain – organize!” Although the previous post about the wacky voting system is interesting, it’s unlikely that any sort of recount or technicality will change the fact that today, the people of the United States […]

Next Stop, Hell In A Handbasket: ———— somehow, i think that gary might be on to something with this post

Getting all cute and sexy again: Election day is drawing to a close, so this blog is returning to its regular schedule of unrepentent perversion, news of the wild and strange, the usual assortment of nerdy scientific studies, and the occasional puppy or kitten photo to make you go AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. I’m sure I’ll have many […]

Predictable Astonishment: Like probably all of the World, I watched the election results tonight. And the more I watched, the more I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I still can’t. Intellectually, I fully expected it to be too close to call tonight. But emotionally I guess I was holding onto the hope that sanity […]