Australia Creative Resource Online. Australia Creative Resource Online, a project funded by the Australian government, has launched its pilot site. Their aim is to create a digital junkyard, and have articulated a very compelling economic argument as to why this should exist. Currently, they are taking submissions for content, and are even willing to (selectively) […]

What's at Stake? Our Supreme Court. We're not alone in our belief that the greatest impact the 2004 President will have is in picking Supreme Court Justices. The Boston Globe reports that the new President will select up to four new Justices. Few believe the present… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime] —- something to be […]

it is disappointing to say the least, that vick jr. could not and would not wake up and smell the coffee. one crime is an issue, two and you are a criminal. criminals should not be playing football.

DVT. Instead of preparing course guides and reading dossiers I'm blogging! But the recent quietness here was a coincidence of school holidays with my children, returning from a very very quick trip to Switzerland, and managing to get Deep Vein Thrombosis on the return flight, specifically London to Singapore. Now it turns out that DVT […]

Net outage reports – public or private?. The US Federal Communications Commission has proposed amending its rules that require telecom carriers to report significant interruptions of service, to extend reporting requirements to the providers of high-speed data lines, satellite links and wireless networks (see ET Docket No…. [InternetPolicy.net] —- well….. always public, always.

because since the reagan era, the 'lifers' have been granted control of the language and rhetoric around birth control, they have won the hearts and minds of physicians and pharmacists, now…. the pill is 'chemical abortion', and women are being denied access based on doctors or pharmacists personal beliefs. i have to wonder, whose life […]

or so the plane jockey's say… someone said they saw them putting edwards stickers on kerry's plane

Creating Wikipedia Content…. As part of my research for a forthcoming translation and chapter on Walter Map and William of Newburgh's vampire fragments, I checked out wikipedia (links above) and found that the Map page claims that he was one of the first to write about King Arthur (in the 12th Century!) and there was […]

Australian conference presentations. The presentations from the conference, Changing Research Practices in the Digital Information and Communication Environment (Canberra, June 1, 2004), are now online. [Open Access News] —- some interesting presentations here if youa reinterested in digital information in the academic environment.

Knowing Their Politics by the Software They Use. It is perhaps not surprising that the parties find themselves on different sides in the politics of software as well. By By STEVE LOHR. [The New York Times > Technology] [A blog doesn't need a clever name] —- i don't think it really has anything to do […]