Building knowledge societies. UNESCO is currently hosting a “virtual exhibition” on Building Knowledge Societies. The exhibition consists of annotated links to projects in several areas: creating knowledge, preserving knowledge, sharing knowledge, and transmitting knowledge. It includes some open-access projects, but not as many as it should, given its focus. [Open Access News]

yasd. my nethack game was going nicely (even had a gray dragon scale mail from a wish), and then i choked while eating a fire giant corpse. level 14, 122479 points. not bad. i should know better than to continue to chomp on big corpses while satiated, though… i'm still playing 3.3.1. i even play […]

Umm, thanks Apple. My powerbook was running at 533Mhz instead of 866Mhz, apparently thanks to 10.2.28. I upgraded to panther last week and it seems to have stuck since then. Read the instructions at Leonard's site to find out how to restore your former CPU power. [A Whole Lotta Nothing] —— i had this problem, […]

Parsing FOAF with PHP. don't mind me, just tossing this php/foaf tutorial into the annotated bookmark bin : [ via laughingmeme mlp ] [snowdeal.org > ex machina] —– same, annotating, keeping, plotting

Economic Left/Right: -6.88 Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.64 i'm apparently worse than gandi and the dalai lama….

OSU Position Statement on National Security Strategy. The other day, Beth Hewett sent me the following email, asking that I post it here: The College of Humanities at the Ohio State University invites you to read their position statement in response to the National Security Strategy of the United States of America and the National […]

November 16th is Global Learn Day, it kicks of International Education Week. this years theme is Friendship through Education. give a lecture, teach a friend, etc.

Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines. Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelineshttp://usability.gov/pdfs/guidelines.html An excellent publication on current research-based guidelines on web design and usability issues. [Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker]

a test. One of my classmates sent me the funniest little test this evening. Try it out. Read this question, come up… [zephoria] —— but now with it out and about, can't the psychopaths just lie…..

Very few things make me really happy, but my research center is one of them. Today I found the materials that the center for digital discourse and culture hosts is cited the world book encyclopedia online, previously i had known it was used in the britannica online, but another encyclopedia is always good. It is […]