Disturbing image from Iraq. I just received this by email from a friend. WELCOME TO THE WAR IN IRAQ Attached is actual night-vision footage shot from a U.S. Apache attack helicopter engaging Iraqis, whom allegedly were attempting to launch a Stinger missile at the Apache. The Apache responds with approximately one-hundred rounds of 30mm cannon […]

Reuters: Virginia Tech to upgrade supercomputer to Xserve. I don't get it. Why buy millions of dollars of equipment just to use it for a few months? None of the explanations make any sense. [Hack the Planet] ——- i wonder why anyone questions this move?

Why so bitter? Economist Brad DeLong has been a consistent voice of reason as the insanity of Bush administration fiscal policy has mounted. Today he justifiably allows himself to get just a little less reasonable, summing things up in an impassioned, must-read post: &nbsp Why do so many of us who worked so hard on […]

DOD Wargames Abrupt Climate Change. The DOD Wargames Abrupt Climate Change: Turning inward, the U.S. effectively seeks to build a fortress around itself to preserve resources. Borders are strengthened to hold back starving immigrants from Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean islands‰¥äwaves of boat people pose especially grim problems…As the planet's carrying capacity shrinks, an […]

PROFESSORS ON COKE. Earlier, I noted this post from Brad DeLong about his need to consume 40 ounces of Coke to get through three office hours. I was… [OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY] —— 12 oz of good coffee, or 16 oz of regular coffee, early in the morning and i'm set all day.

Eprints Handbook released. Les Carr of Southampton University has written an Eprints Handbook for all users of Erints, the open-source software for building and maintaining open-access OAI-compliant eprint archives. Quoting the press release: “The handbook is desisgned for…the system administrators who set up and maintain the archives, the departments or libraries that manage them, the […]

Darwine. Darwine – putting Windows apps on OSX, by porting Wine to Darwin. A whole world of right, yet oh so wrong. (via Brent)… [Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent] —— this could be handy….

Theodore Roszak, “Raging Against the Machine” [Interactivist Info Exchange] ——- well worth thinking about, maybe in a sort of third removed way…

List of open/free 'courseware tools' from UNESCO Free Software Portal. http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_freesoft/ Software/Courseware_Tools/ Via an email from Jim Sibley came mention of this list of open or free 'courseware tools' – there were a couple of ones new to me (MANIAC and OLAT being examples). But the reference was as useful also for introducing me to […]

grounding cosmopolitan democracy in rights perpetuates a paucity of democracy. democracy, in any rich sense, any sense beyond mere proceduralism and constructing the populace as machines of the world requires a significant understanding of political enculturation, the creation of the political subject. it is the acts that construct the culture in which democracy is found, […]