Grounded: Millionaire John Gilmore stays close to home while making a point about privacy: “Are they just basically saying we just can’t travel without identity papers? If that’s true, then I’d rather see us go through a real debate that says we want to introduce required identity papers in our society rather than trying to […]

The Fox: shane’s the fox…. —————- i’m the pilot: You are the pilot. Saint Exupery’s ‘The Little Prince’ Quiz. brought to you by Quizilla

Inside Cheeky’s Office: I fill my office with a lot of silly and fun things. This is one of my absolute favorites (in fact, I’ve purchased a couple of these for colleagues as gifts). —————- I like IT. i want one.

FOSS and OASIS: Groklaw just published an open letter from representatives of the FOSS community directed against a new IPR policy at OASIS. However, I do wonder if there was any discussion behind the scenes at first before taking this step. The IETF just might be next… ——– i do hope someone will lay the […]

Bagpuss: Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss Old fat furry catpuss Wake up and look at this thing that I bring Wake up, be bright, be golden and light Bagpuss, oh hear what I sing ———— are they bringing bagpuss back?

Thomas L. Friedman: The sliding dollar: “Given the number of people who have refinanced their homes with floating-rate mortgages, the falling dollar is a kind of sword of Damocles, getting closer and closer to their heads,” Rothkopf said. “And with any kind of sudden market disruption – caused by anything from a terror attack to […]

Having winter fun like snowbody’s business.: The problem is that in my discipline students often expect the coursework to be easy, the content be ‘common sense,’ particularly in the lower level classes. I always get a lot of students who take this sort of class their senior year hoping it will be an easy filler […]

Library Journal – Revenge of the Blog People!: Who are the Blog People? It is obvious that the Blog People read what they want to read rather than what is in front of them and judge me to be wrong on the basis of what they think rather than what I actually wrote. Given the […]