Yes, It’s Torture: Kevin Drum asks (rhetorically), Torture?: President Bush announced yesterday that 14 “high value detainees” would be transferred from secret CIA prisons to Guantanamo Bay. ABC News describes the interrogation techniques that have been used on on them: The first — the attention grab, involving the rough shaking of a prisoner. Second — […]

Computer,September 2006 (Vol. 39, No. 9): September 2006 (Vol. 39, No. 9) ISSN: 0018-9162 ——– there are some interesting articles in this month’s issue of ieee computer.

Your daily Rorschach test: Can you caption this? ——– ….. its icy.

Euroscience Open Forum 2006, 15 – 19 July, Munich, Germany: Prof. Stevan Harnad Moderator, American Scientist Open Access Forum Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Sciences, Université du Québec à Montréal and Professor, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk Publish or Perish As Science is mere structured common sense, her means but trial-and-error made […]

Joining Second Life: Second Life is also not immune to the same social predjudices and inequities that exist in the real world. My friend Andy Carvin found this out when he created an African avatar – modeled specifically after a Somali child soldier. In an excellent article about Second Life, the Boston Phoenix quoted Andy […]

National Security Experiment – BREAK.com : 7/3/2006 – An Australian TV performs a simple and hilarious experiment on bridge security. How long can an average looking white tourist take pictures of security cameras before being bothered? —— nothing new here….

Media @ LSE Group Weblog » Blog Archive » A university lecturer’s life in ’40s Britain?: He has a leisurely breakfast at half-past-eight, followed by pipe and paper; reaches the University between ten and half-past; reads his letters and perhaps writes one; saunters into the Common Room for a cup of coffee; calls on a […]

Wiki Textbook Proposal: To bing down the cost of expensive text books, and make them more universally accessible, a new project is proposing creating “wikitexts“, collaborative text books. ——– isn’t this just wikibooks and wikiversity….