Regular readers know that I'm a sucker for big ste …. Regular readers know that I'm a sucker for big steps back from the usual myopic view of what the purpose of education could be. Education – What Should Be Taught? is one of those thought-provoking pieces that basically points out how much important stuff […]

Ok. We're here now…. I've finally gotten Drupal under control. The problem was trying to run it at the domain root. Doing drupal at jasonnolan.net didn't cut it. So I moved it to stuff.jasonnolan.net aka jasonnolan.net/stuff. And that's so much better. Now I can spend less time on formatting, and more on content. I hope. […]

Blogging Spaces and PlacesKaye blogs anywhere – s …. Blogging Spaces and PlacesKaye blogs anywhere – sometimes in bed. Jeff Jarvis noticed some German and Finnish blogs talking about the places they blog. I think this is very interesting, seeing where it all comes from. This is fascinating stuff. [Netwoman] —— Like kaye, i've blogged […]

Socket's cute little Cordless Serial Adapter Bluetooth-enables any RS-232 serial device. [Hack the Planet] [A blog doesn't need a clever name] —— i'll take 10

Reasons for Booting Bush. Check out Reasons to Vote Out Bush. There are 167 reasons right now. You can add your own…. [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime] —— some of these are not very good reasons, others…… are all the reason you should need.

Deutschland Grid. Germany plugs into national grid. The German government launches the Deutschland Grid, or D-Grid, a multi-year effort with IBM to use grid computing to tackle scientific research. [CNET News.com – Front Door] [The Mediaburn Radio Weblog] —— E-Science is picking up in europe, now all they need is a teragrid.

Google as context renderer. Martin Terre Blanche: “I suspect that most Google searches have as much to do with getting a feel for context as with locating something specific.” Great examples in there of how search engines and related tools help us sense the landscape surrounding a term in an impressionistic manner. (Recall is another […]

More Passion. I saw it on Boing Boing: Steve Martin’s script notes for The Passion. [AKMA’s Random Thoughts] —– akma points to a hilarious page…..

Scalextric Sportworld Slot-Racing System. JOEL JOHNSON –Elevating slot car racing far past 'toy' status, the Scalextric Sportworld system is an incredibly full-featured software suite that integrates with special race… [Gizmodo] ——- mmmmm cool toy, too bad it won't work with a real computer.