Rising college fees will cost us in time – Yahoo! News: • Many students work, sometimes multiple jobs, thereby losing much of the texture of the college experience. Despite these well-documented struggles, tuition and fees keep rising. ——- i worked up to 4 jobs, working is good, it adds texture to the college experience. and […]

Monopoly Debit Card.: Still playing with Monopoly money? That’s so, 2005. Now, you can play Monopoly with debit cards: Game makers Parker have phased out the standard multi-coloured cash in a new version. ——- this is just so wrong…..

The CIA Cruelty Authorization Act of 2006: There have been several reports in recent days about drafts of the Bush Administration’s proposed amendments to the War Crimes Act. Now, Slate has published a version of those amendments that reportedly was “sent to Congress” last week. I’m informed that this proposal was, at most, shared with […]

Information Law Institute: Increasingly, who we are is represented by key bits of information scattered throughout the data-intensive, networked world. Online and off, these core identifiers mediate our sense of self, social interactions, movements through space, and access to goods and services. There is much at stake in designing systems of identification and identity management, […]

Nuclear war starting in 10 days? – Pravda.Ru: Political Scientist’s Opinion Alexander Prohanov, the main editor of ‘Zavtra’ Newspaper:’Apocalypse Tomorrow’ – The pulling of the trigger leading to the tragic chain of events has been done. Syria and Iran will be pulled into the war right after Lebanon. Israeli and American attacks on Iran will […]

Times of Oman: Maybe it was those explosive “liquid chemicals” they were planning to smuggle aboard the planes. After all, it’s only 160 years since nitroglycerin was invented. It’s a mere eleven years since Al Qaeda associate Ramzi Yousef plotted to blow up 12 airliners flying across the Pacific at the same time with nitro […]

Crooked Timber » » Flights of fancy: On reflection, maybe the ban on carry on luggage won’t be so bad: without a pc, let alone a phone, there need be no guilt about watching some movies on the seat-back video instead of working. ——- I wonder if it might be worthwhile to think of these […]