Doublethink on GOP hypocrisy Check Doublethink. They're running a series of articles, meticulously detailing Republican hypocrisy in matters of sex, morality, and race. Good stuff, and massively documented! [Politics in the Zeros]

sometimes you just have to revisit your youth, and i've been considering buying the cd's of the tv show 'tales of the golden monkey' which some say is a rip-off of indiana jones, but really is a rip off of something else for some time. well they came in the mail today.

Not that i don't expect a whole slew of rejections for academic jobs, primarily because I tend not to fit expectations and i tend not to sell myself, but i figure this season i'll share a bit of the reasons, this one says: although you have a well-rounded resume and had many of the qualifications […]

No More Pencils, No More Books. Even as there are reports of the increased importance of libraries, especially with the rise of information overload and new technology to combat it, schools are finding it harder and harder to find and finance qualified librarians. During times of… [TechnoBiblio]

Gender Inequality in Domestic Labor. The current topic in my Gender and Social Institutions class is gender inequality in domestic labor. The basic story is that women do way more work in the home than their male partners, even when they work full time outside… [Eat Your Vegetables] ——- interesting…. what if there is no […]

Beating Around the Bush. Via Steve Gilliard's News Blog. What has to be stressed over and over is the fragility of Bush's support. Wrong on the issues, the war in Iraq, Bush only has an aura of personal charm which keeps his presidency afloat. People mistake his obstinancy for plain spokenness. It isn't. Bush is […]

yup, that's about it, a paper, a fairly interesting one that i'm writing with tim, well so far he wrote probably 160% of it, and i've cut it down to 85% but now it is back to around 96% his work, but all in all i think i have around 1000 words in it, i […]

WSIS Round Table on ICTs as a tool to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The WSIS Round Table on “ICTs as a tool to achieve the Millennium Development Goals” has just ended. The main ideas debated were: Countries need to develop a national plan if they are going to achieve the goals. Without the plan, […]

Grassroots WSIS coverage [bOing bOing]

Brainpower is Getting Cheaper. Edward Hugh and Marcelo Rinesi write in The Straits Times: The 'new new economy' way – one that recognises that well-educated human minds are as much of a commodity as any standards-compatible central processing unit – involves software written by bright maverick programmers (maybe tucked away in an East European 'transitional […]