Post: Interruptive Technology and the Death of Deep Thought. For those of you who know me, you know that I think Gauss is cool :: Gauss was so tremendously smart that he accomplished 10 times more than the average genius and I think I've started to understand how. Just imagine Gauss's day: every morning he […]

The Household InternetIt's official, I am now a Ph …. The Household InternetIt's official, I am now a PhD Candidate. I have passed through the hoops of writing two comprehensive exams – one in Gender (January) and the other on the Domesticated Internet (June). Today I successfully defended my research proposal – my committee was […]

CERT now says it, too: Beware of IE (Ryan Naraine story in Internet News). The U.S. government's Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is warning Web surfers to stop using Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser. On the heels of last week's sophisticated malware attack that targeted a known IE flaw, US-CERT updated an earlier advisory to […]

News UPdate. Yes, I broke wordpress again, or it was still broken. Jeremy helped me work through the logic to find the missing file(s). Now just have to fix something else… but I'm keeping away from rampant computer use and doing other useful things. Like starting to work again on the Medieveal Latin British vampire […]

EFF Publishes Patent Hit List. Winnowing a field of nearly 200 questionable patents, the Electronic Frontier Foundation decides to challenge 10 of what the group considers to be the most dubious and abused technology patents. By Daniel Terdiman. [Wired News] [A blog doesn't need a clever name] —- i wish they didn't have to do […]

i downloaded this earlier today on my every so often on interesting uses of political economy. having just read it, i find that it makes the pertinance of political economy for those interested in librarianship, but it doesn't really go as far as i'd like talking about the becoming part of librarianship that is part […]

this looks like it might be interesting….

this sort of speaks a wee bit negatively toward the way the republican party thinks about sex. but maybe they just believe it should be deregulated? no, their marriage policy somehwat contrary to that, hmmm…. well, remember tailhook?

New WSIS papers from APC. A grant from Canada's International Development Agency enabled the Association for Progressive Communications to commission two studies on the hottest issues emerging from WSIS-1: Internet governance and funding ICT development in the “South.” Both documents have just been posted on… [InternetPolicy.net] —– worth the read….

this looks like an interesting group