oh i could spend hours listening to these. I think they need a northern pennsylvania accent, someone from sullivan or bradford counties, because it is much different from the pittsburg accent.

I've just submitted my last course request that I will need to submit in a while (you never know). It was for my last 6 credits of research and dissertation for my dissertation. This means that I expect to finish this degree this spring. Let's see, i started taking classes in my ph.d. in the […]

Ê Virginia levied the fourth-largest cut in the nation of higher-education spending during the past two years, slashing college budgets by 17.8 percent. ÊÊÊ The annual funding shortfall for all public colleges, as calculated by state officials, has doubled since 2000 to roughly $400 million . ÊÊÊ Average faculty salaries at many schools are in […]

Everybody Googles Everybody. Well, not quite everybody. Not quite yet. But people do google people. This came up in the infamous MLA thread, where an Anonymous Member of a Job Search Committee warned: I'll be interviewing people at MLA, and, trust me, we've… [Invisible Adjunct]

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Bags. Having a good laptop bag is really handy; if you have plenty of place to put things, odds are you'll actually find you have those things when you get to Aarhus or Atlanta or wherever you suddenly discover that you need a different dongle. [Mark Bernstein] ——

Fla. Judge Orders Public Defender Arrested in Courtroom. This needs publicity. Please pass it on. Osceola Circuit Judge Margaret Waller had a Public Defender arrested in court because… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime] —— this judge was out of line. the defendant gets all the rights remember, all of them and all of the documents […]

there are quite a few people looking up the blur building of late. I think it is an interesting design and worth reconsidering. There is a certain anti-materialist aesthetic to a low hanging cloud in the middle of lake, especially when that cloud is in fact a container of sorts. I think that is why […]

and that his tax cuts had as much to do with recovery as china hosting the olympics, a more likely explanation is the low interest rate and the building boom.

Interview with Francis Muguet on OA at WSIS. Eric Goettmann, Le libre accs au Sommet mondial de l'information, Captain Doc, December 2003. An interview with Francis Muguet, chairman of the Scientific Information Working Group of the WSIS, on the WSIS endorsement of open access, its negotiation and significance. Read the original French or Google's English. […]