Over at Kickass…. Tina is advocating teaching grade five kids (that's fifth grade for you americans) about wet dreams. i love my wife! The wee tomato is going to know so much that he'll be the one telling the teachers what's what…. [Eat Your Vegetables] More than half of all the (college-educated) women in one […]

Strike ballot for lecturers [Ananova News]

Lessons from studying open-source communities. Mike Martin, Scientific Research Backs Wisdom of Open Source, NewsFactor Sci-Tech, December 15, 2003. (Thanks to Garrett Eastman.) New scientific studies of how open-source communities build and debug software conclude that the process is more complex and more effective than usually thought. Quoting Walt Scacchi, a senior research scientist at […]

A Telling Account of WSIS. Maria Farrell, who works as a lobbyist for an undisclosed international membership organization based in Paris (OECD? ICC?) writes a great account of WSIS at Crooked Timber. Below I include a sampler, but it’s worth clicking the link to get the whole thing. Other interesting WSIS links include:An interview with […]

Chair of 9/11 Commission: Attacks Were Preventable. The Chair of the independent 9/11 commission says the attacks were preventable: “This is a very, very important part of… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

Where is Bush Getting These Numbers?. Andrew Sullivan on Bush's “conservatism”. Conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan on Bush's “alleged fiscal conservatism”: MORE SPENDING: Monday, president Bush touted his alleged fiscal conservatism. If he's fiscally conservative, I don't know what fiscally liberal would look like. Here's what he said: “I want to remind… [Dean Independents] [The Mediaburn […]

WSIS Misguided. From an Editorial in the Baltimore Sun: “…Even more misguided is the international movement to take registration of Web addresses from a U.S. nonprofit – the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) – and put it and other coordination under the United Nations. At the 200-nation U.N. World Information Summit last […]

here are 3 pics of the truck that i just bought for your reference.

Libraries can promote freedoms of access and expression. Stuart Hamilton and Niels Ole Pors, Freedom of access to information and freedom of expression: the Internet as a tool for global social inclusion, Library Management, 24, 8/9 (2003) pp. 407-416. Abstract: “This paper explores how the relationship between freedom of access to information and freedom of […]

Playing with trolls. The other day, in #joiito, a pretty hardcore troll dropped into the channel. The funny thing was, everyone was like, “weeee a real live troll, lets play with the troll!” The troll was sufficiently outnumbered by our band of merry IRCers and I think the troll figured out that at then end, […]