apparently something about the eye in the new u.s. 20 dollar bill will burn in the microwave…

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: DRH 2004 **** Deadline: March 15th 2004 **** DRH 2004: Digital Resources for the Humanities University of Newcastle, UK Sunday 5th September ö Wednesday 8th September 2004 Conference URL – http://drh2004.ncl.ac.uk/ The DRH conferences have established themselves firmly in the UK and international calendar as a major forum bringing together scholars, librarians, […]

or did they? oh this is highly problematic…..

tomorrow, march 2, is unofficially “Buy a Librarian a Beer” day.

Brutal article on declining computer science enrollments. Today's New York Times carries an article entitled “Microsoft, Amid Dwindling Interest, Talks Up Computing as a Career” about Bill Gates going around to universities encouraging young people to major in computer science.  The chairman of EECS at MIT worries about the decline in enrollment (10 years ago his […]

Most Americans aged 18 to 35 support gay marriage, according to a NY Times article yesterday. It's often the case that bigotry dies with the generation that embraces it… [www.gulker.com – words and pictures from Silicon Valley] —– and then is picked up by the next generation… bigotry is likely cyclical…..

6th “INTERNATIONAL SUMMER ACADEMY ON TECHNOLOGY STUDIES”: ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS 6th International Summer Academy on Technology Studies: ãUrban Infrastructure in Transition: What can we learn from history?ä Deutschlandsberg, Austria, July 11 ö 17, 2004 Organized by Inter-University Research Centre for Technology, Work and Culture (IFZ), Graz. Cities are powerfully shaped by socio-technical networks […]

there is something to be said for taking care and managing the presentation of your self and your concerns online. lots of times, i just want to warn people toward being conservative about this, against creating possible misunderstandings and increasing the overall chance that someone will group you without really knowing what you are up […]

New Australian PhD Weblog. New Australian PhD weblog on Internet Genealogy Research by Kylie Veale. Welcome to research blogging!… [creativity/machine] —– Kylie has a blog, but no feed:(

Twisted: there's an ad in the New York Times today congratulating President Bush for backing an amendment to the Constitution to deny marriage to gay and lesbian people. The ad compares him to President Lincoln, and is signed by many of the groups and people that I have pledged, for Lent, to study and try […]