NetReliefKit. This doesn't have much to do with policy but it's a very cool tool: On InterLink, Brian King tells about a recent workshop on disaster relief communications and he mentions that “Nethope is developing a suitcase-sized NetReliefKit in a collaborative… [InternetPolicy.net] ——- this is an interesting idea, well worth pursuing further.

LambdaRail Fiber-Optic Network Gains 6 New Members, Enough to Go National. National LambdaRail, a consortium of research universities, now has enough members to extend its planned network to most of the country. The project initially will operate four separate national computer networks, each with a capacity equal to Internet2's Abilene network. (The Chronicle of Higher […]

Will There Be A Draft? What Can You Do About It?. As the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq drag on year after year, military tours of duty and reserve call-ups are extended, and enlistment declines, more and more people are beginning to wonder how soon the Pentagon will run out of “volunteers”, and turn to […]

Trent Lott Defends Torture, Killing of Prisoners. by TChris Trent Lott's knack for saying in public what other right-wingers in power only mutter behind closed doors cost him his position as Senate majority leader. Now it should cost him his job. In an interview, Lott defended the… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime] —– according to […]

apparently they don't like the humiliation of relationships.

The secret lives of teachers. Dave Eggers offers a heartbreaking work of staggering support for increasing teachers' salaries in the current Mother Jones: As a… [Critical Mass] —– teachers, all teachers, need to be paid more.

old ipod is dying. so i used my audible.com $100.00 discount to buy a new 15gb one, it will be here tomorrow. weee! i must say, this original ipod, a 5gb, that came free with a server, is quite nice, and it lasted a long time. it still sort of works, but two times in […]

Good Thing He's Joking. This Chun fellow could be very dangerous if we didn’t all know that academic blurbs are written by university administrations and forced on unwilling shy and retiring academics. That said, I genuinely believe that some of my colleagues really are the leading authorities on certain things. But better not to name […]

Weblog research roundtable. Excellent multiparty interview with weblog researchers Cori Dauber, Kaye Trammell, Jill Walker, and Alex Halavais. I especially liked Alex Halavais' insight into the future of weblogs: “I suspect that over the next few years we will see a lot of calls suggesting that blogging has died, and I suspect that in a […]

Are you a geek?. Ken always finds the good tests. He's a a “Total Geek” with a score of 26.23274% (gotta love that precision). I, on the other hand, am a “Poser” with a score of 6.1144%. I'm not sure that's a bad thing :)…. [IDblog]