off to Toronto tomorrow at 10:00am i arrive at 2:30pm. list of things to do: house sitter is set Video Camera is set workshop presentation in sort of weak state, but workable returning library book shortly called Hooptie for an airport shuttle now all i have to do is go home, clean up some more […]

Cyber Behavior Research Center. Cyber Behavior Research Center – Human Web interactionhttp://www.cio.com/research/behavior/ Human behavior is an unquestionable component of Internet development. Existing ways that we act upon the world infiltrate and shape the Web while at the same time new ones are created. This research center attempts to explore the impact behavior has on shaping […]

Tuition fees gain allure in cash-hit European campuses. Education: In a special report we find university administrators warming to charging students as governments cut grants. [Guardian Unlimited] Back at Humboldt University, meanwhile, where the ghost of Karl Marx still hovers, students yesterday pondered what had happened to his legacy. “It's good for society for people […]

here calpundit shows that many planks of a typical republican platform are downright scary.

I Am A: Chaotic Good Human Fighter Ranger Alignment:Chaotic Good characters are independent types with a strong belief in the value of goodness. They have little use for governments and other forces of order, and will generally do their own things, without heed to such groups. Race:Humans are the 'average' race. They have the shortest […]

Your Homeland Security Dollars in Action. Dan Hughes of TheyBlinked points us to a story about his brother and his fiance. Here's the intro to the article: The love story of Trevor Hughes and his fiancee began in an elementary school in the Himalayan foothills. They were “global nomads.” He was a diplomat's son. She […]

Apple powers college supercomputer. A US college has been able to build a supercomputer by hooking up hundreds of Apple G5 computers. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] ——- news travels slow in this case, no. this is probably the last major note on the g5 supercomputer here at tech.

Amaizing waistlines. You are fat because there is too much corn. [NYT, forfeit of first-born son required] I love good old-fashioned materialism, and Michael Pollan (author of The Botany of Desire) scores one for the team with this article on the economics of corn production. Are we fat because New Deal agricultural policy was overturned […]

Connexions project. The Connexions Project produces open-access content for online education and facilitates its collaborative development. Browse the extensive Content Commons to see what is already developed and available, and check out the open-source tools. (Thanks to Darius Cuplinskas.) [Open Access News]

A Matrix of Weblog Uses in Education. Scott Leslie, an educational technology researcher and emerging technology analyst, is working with Dr. Bruce Landon and the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications (WCET) on the Edutools.info project. The  project participants are researching course management systems. Scott has developed an interesting matrix of  possible uses of weblogs in […]