Book review: It Can’t Happen Here | Needlenose: The temptation in reviewing a book like Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here is to look for similarities between his fictional fascist takeover of the U.S. in the 1930s by demagogue Berzelius “Buzz” Windrip and his “The American State Corporate State and Patriotic Party,” aka the “Corpos,” […]

Nice hackers: Hacker Highschool – to create nice hackers (according to Dagbladet.no)… i wonder…. given that knowledge can be used for almost any purpose, good or evil, how they indoctrinate goodness?

Cooking HOWTO roundup: How to cut vegetables How to choose a cut of meat How to chill wine fast ——- this is worth noting….

Secret Service visits art show at Columbia : Secret Service spokesman Brandon Bridgeforth said he couldn’t go into specifics about last week’s visit. “We are doing some inquiries into the art exhibit. We’re just doing some looking into it,” Bridgeforth said. Columbia College spokeswoman Micki Leventhal said agents were responding to citizen complaints about the […]

Andrea Dworkin Has Died: I received word this morning— from Doug Henwood, Carol Queen, and Rachel Kramer Bussel— that Andrea Dworkin has died. She was 59. Her partner John Stoltenberg found her near death in the morning, and she passed away around eight in the morning. There is nothing about Dworkin’s death in the news […]

Economy of Scales: iControl for GarageBand: M-Audio’s new iControl (info in German at M-Audio; English analysis at createdigitalmusic) is hardware for controlling Apple’s GarageBand music software. It’s designed just for GarageBand, down to the fake wood-paneled sides of Apple’s interface. Buttons let you set up playback and recording, a big jog wheel and transport controls […]

Main Page – AoIR Wiki: I just launched the Association of Internet Researcher’s Wiki. This should be an interesting demonstration of how (or not) distributed academic groups can use wiki technology to their benefit. We’ll see.