The University Press of Lapland (Finland) will publish a book entitled Lost and Found in Virtual Reality: Women and Information Technology. As many researchers struggle to give an account of our immersion in information and communication technology, which resonates with lived experience, there is an increasing turn to phenomenology as a way to get back […]

according to kuro5hin, the plane of the author of the little prince has been found…

The Invisible Woman: An Intel Simulation. Via Boing Boing, I found this IT management simulation game on the Intel site. It's an interesting idea; you're a manager who has to hire a team and complete a project using available resources. The problem (as Cory points out)… [misbehaving.net] ——- the world is a scary place when […]

for a mammals this is a first….

Summer and Fall are possibly full of international trips for me…. which is good and bad. currently, i'm scheduled for: OII doctoral seminar in Oxford July 14-31 4S in Paris 24-28 of august Future of the Book 29-31 aug. in beijing IR 5.0 19-22 of sept. in brighton I know i will likely make the […]

Hello Kitty Headlamps. For just ´4,179, these Hello Kitty replacement headlamps put our favorite kawaii kitten into the halo of blinding light she's always deserved. [Thanks, Remo] Look – Fullsize Image Read – Sanrio Store… [Gizmodo]

Decreasing your Erdos number for fun and profit. For the record, Paul Erdos's Fisher number is 4. Paul Erdos -> Ernst Specker -> Karl Lieberherr -> Paul Dourish -> Danyel Fisher (according to Paul's chart). And the number isn't likely to drop too fast from here. If you… [Made out of people] —– i'm pretty […]

Taxpayers unwittingly paying for Republican National Committee's propaganda [bOing bOing] —— isn't this sort of thing illegal?

Old school. San Francisco State University is fucked, according to this internal memo. [Fucked Company] —— not much you can say about this, other than it will keep happening until someone decides that there is just too much at stake.

Wiki List of 'Scholars Who Blog'. Alexander Halavais has started a wiki list of Scholars Who Blog. So far he has about 400, and invites those missing to add their names…. [Discourse.net] —— fixed mine, i've not been at that url for a while now. http://www.tmttlt.com is the new url