religion, on occasion, breeds a very real ignorance of some very important things in life. for instance, this story on a couple's seeming infertility.

The Association of Higher Education Web Professionals requests abstracts for its expanded, fifth annual HighEdWebDev conference. Deadline is June 7, 2004. http://www.highedweb.org/2004/abstractreq.html HighEdWeb and the WebdevShare Programming Committee merge to bring you the premier national conference for Web professionals in higher education. We have combined the conference planning experience and programming excellence of HighEdWeb and […]

I am 25% evil. I try to stay away from evil deeds but succumb to temptation every once in a while. I'm not quite on my way to hell but I certainly have some explaining to do. Are you evil? find out at Hilowitz.com

IRR Call-Up?. Interesting news that I haven’t seen elsewhere: Army Times: Army screens 118,000 inactive reservists for possible call-up The Army has begun screening members of the… [Outside the Beltway] ——- wow…. i don't have any commitments there anymore, mine ended in '98, but this is a bit scary.

How-to guide for international students. This useful site, intended for international students, explains what academics in the USA and Canada expect an essay to look like. But some sections will also be useful for American students themselves. (Via C18-L.)… [The Little Professor] —— handy enough….

Working lives 'must be extended'. Money: Employees need to face up to a longer working life and get realistic about early retirement, a group of economic experts said today. [Guardian Unlimited] ——- it is all about population and demographics and those changes, that is why people must work longer.

Why I like my picture. . .. This is wrong and really funny. And sort of in keeping with the identity theme of this evening…. [hipteacher] —— it is pretty funny

Congressman Boucher's eminently reasonable idea. Tomorrow I'll be in DC (sigh) testifying before the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection about Congressman Boucher's Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act. Testimony here. Essential message to follow: [Lessig Blog] ——- well if there is one bill this year that you should support, it is this one, […]

ITU Virtual Conference on International Cooperation on Countering SPAM. On the 30th of March 2004, the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau's (BDT) Regulatory Reform Unit (RRU) held a Global Regulators Excahnge (G-REX) virtual conference on regulatory cooperation on spam. The virtual conference was moderated by Dr. Bob Horton, Acting Chairman, Australian Communications Authority. The conference participants (PDF) […]

well, for those of whom track my apple exploits at length, the tibook is once again in the shop, the new server is almost completely in, and thus things are normal. this time apparently i have discovered a whole new region of problems with tibooks.