In other news… | Metafilter: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/36699 While you were re-electing a president: Senator-elect Jim DeMint: Thinks that unwed pregnant women and gays are unfit to be schoolteachers. Senator-elect Tom Coburn: Wants the death penalty for abortion doctors. Senator-elect John Thune: Mr. School Prayer Amendment. —— sweet isn’t it…. these aren’t the type of people i […]
Read MoreIn other news… | Metafilter: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/36699 While you were re-electing a president: Senator-elect Jim DeMint: Thinks that unwed pregnant women and gays are unfit to be schoolteachers. Senator-elect Tom Coburn: Wants the death penalty for abortion doctors. Senator-elect John Thune: Mr. School Prayer Amendment. —— sweet isn’t it…. these aren’t the type of people i […]
Read MoreHRL – The Humanoid Robotics Laboratory – The Bar Bot – Content: http://www.roboticslab.org/html/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=2 finally a useful robot.
Read MoreSubtle submissions: The Subtle Technologies Festival will take place May 26-May 29, 2005, in Toronto Canada. Symposium submissions are due January 15th, 2005. This year, in addition to the usual diverse program, there is a special session celebrating the “World Year in Physics”; artists and scientists who investigate physics in their work … —– sounds […]
Read MoreCandidate Kerry: [See also comments here.] ~He’s ready, he’s willing, who knows if he’s able?… not knowing that he is able…. is better than knowing that he is not, which is where my opinion lies on bush, not able to be president in any real sense and generally defers to the guidance of warmongers and […]
Read MoreThe Personal Internet Communicator for Developing Economies: 50×15 is AMD‘s initiative to enable affordable Internet access and computing capabilities for 50 percent of the world population by the year 2015. With world population estimated to reach 7.2 billion people in 2015, and current Internet penetration approximately 10 percent, there is tremendous potential for 50×15 on […]
Read MoreElectoral geek supreme . Electoral-vote.com’s anonymous tallier…:Electoral geek supreme. Electoral-vote.com’s anonymous tallier outs himself as a pioneer of open-source operating systems. [Salon.com] —— off he goes.
Read MoreElectoral geek supreme . Electoral-vote.com’s anonymous tallier…:Electoral geek supreme. Electoral-vote.com’s anonymous tallier outs himself as a pioneer of open-source operating systems. [Salon.com] —— off he goes.
Read MoreTechnology Threatens Colleges With Extinction, Ex-President Warns: This was in my inbox this morning from techrhet from The Chronicle of Higher Education: Educause 2004, held here last week, attracted more than 7,000 people from 43 different countries, scores of colleges, and hundreds of tech companies. At this meeting of the higher-education technology group, the tech […]
Read MoreOnline Debate: A Case Study Combining Traditional Strategy and Online Technology – Shawn M. Love, Instructional Technology and Distance Learning: Instructional Designers are constantly faced with new challenges. In a volatile technological environment, online resources seem to lead instructional designers into unknown territory. Often, instructors will attempt to merge online media and instructi —- also […]
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