Bush Admin releases Evildoers List The long-awaited list of “Evildoer Nations Doing Evil Evilly” was announced today by the Bush Administration, prompting consternation from critics who noted that only one nation, England, was not listed as a Evildoer. A White House spokesperson acknowledged this, saying that all of continental Europe has fallen under the growing […]

The Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness. Via Slashdot, the Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness. (Also via Slashdot, how carrier Pigeons transfer data faster than networks)… [Discourse.net] —— this is funny.

Unemployment level of college grads surpasses that of high-school dropouts. http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/ webfeatures_snapshots_archive_03172004 This isn't an 'edtech' related item, but it was so striking I couldn't pass up on posting it. The first graph is sheer number of unemployed, and shows that in the U.S. there are now more of them with college degrees than are […]

well i totally pulled out of an orkut discussion on defining politics yesterday, deleting all my posts and letting the other party talk to himself. why? it is the only thing that i really dislike in the world when approaching theoretical positions, the unwillingness to think about what is being said at any deep level, […]

this is brilliant

Ze Frank on Friendster. Hilarious movie. MUST See. Makes fun of Friendster, Orkut and Wallop. [Joi Ito's Web] ——- this is funny in a classic sense that it is also very true.

R.I.P., Joel Feinberg. Brian Leiter says: I have just received the following e-mail sent by Professor Chris Maloney, Head of Department at the University of Arizona: “I regret to inform you that Regents Professor of Philosophy and Law (Emeritus) Joel Feinberg died today, March 29, in Tucson following a long illness. [The Leiter Reports: Editorials, […]

A story in Sunday's Richmond Times-Dispatch quoted an unnamed Republican source saying GOP members expecting to return to Richmond with evidence to bolster their anti-tax stance have instead received “a rude awakening” at the meetings. Delegates will meet in Richmond today to discuss residents' reactions. taxes are a necessity, not an evil at this point […]

New Category. This is the first post to my new category “The Diss”. For those not doing a PhD, this is a common short form for “The dissertation” aka “the thesis”… that big paper we get to sweat over & write up & then have to defend. I decided that … By Julia (mailto:julia@dicum.com). [Flailing […]

Models of teaching practicalities. For once, I’m not using CavLec as a bully pulpit to trash academia. What I’m trying to do, in my discursive and dilatory fashion, is figure out how to get SLIS what it wants—videlicet and to wit, me or someone like me teaching Things Markuppish—while neither depriving myself of things… [Caveat […]