my advice…. even if the school doesn't require the gre, the department does. we get so many calls from students saying, but the school doesn't require it, to which we respond, but the department does. past that…. letters, get your letters underway now or asap, ask your writers to write them soon, send them a […]

nice article with some succinct quotes about power and language. i made this argument in a women's rights forum recently….. they ignored it. but you can't let someone else frame or define the terms of debate.

Max Cleland Turned Away from Crawford Ranch. Former Senator and Vietnam War Veteran Max Cleland went to Crawford today to deliver a letter from 9 Senators to President Bush asking him to condemn the Swift Boat Vets ad. He was turned away and left, still holding the… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime] —- just what […]

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DHS Secretary Ridge Gives the Go Ahead to Linux. 24 Aug 2004: “Like many government contractors, the provider of ERN (Emergency Response Network) Systems maintains a low profile. When you ask the CEO, Jo Balderas, for references she politely says, “the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Public Safety and the Department of Homeland […]

fertile women are useless. Just a quick link to Torill Mortensen's sigh for today, about the lack of women even in “soft” areas like media, and the use of temporary contracts and freelancing to avoid the fearful fertility of women…. [misbehaving.net] —- well, if you read this, it goes onto show how in certain fields […]

The Pink Bunny of Battle Sees Red. The Pink Bunny of Battle sees red over The War on Academic Freedom. We see an echo of this war here in Florida, where Betty Castor the leading Democratic candidate for our open Senate seat, is being castigated for not having fired a tenured professor accused of aiding […]

New(ish) job. While this may not be news to everyone who reads the blog, today it was made official. I have a new administrative position in the School: I am the Graduate Director of Informatics. In practice, I'll still be teaching and doing research, but I will also be in charge of … [Alex Halavais] […]

Open-source publishing system from Cornell. The Cornell University Library has a grant from the Mellon Foundation to develop an open-source publishing platform for online scholarship. The platform is called DPubS (for Digital Publishing System), which Cornell originally developed for Project Euclid. From today's press release: “DPubS will support peer review, have extensive administrative functionality, and […]