Posts from — June 2003

marble columns. Over 2000 wealthy tax payers paid no tax in 2000. Meanwhile, states are plunging into budget deficits. Perhaps the tax cuts are meant not to spur the economy, but to defund social programs? [MetaFilter]

ya think? nah, can't be{sarcasm} social programs don't work if they don't have money. motivation falls if people are underpaid. i recently heard that a master of social work costs around 90000, but pay is 25 to 30000, and usually in a city…. good luck digging out of that hole. but guess whose creating a larger one? you elected them, didn't ya.

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What is a Labor Market?. My post on Marc Bousquet's* job market argument (ie, there is no academic job market) generated some interesting comments on what constitutes a labor market. While Chun the Unavoidable is “sympathetic to Bousquet's argument,” he does “not see the evidence”… [Invisible Adjunct]

well, hmm, i did not expect to get cited here, but i did rant a bit:) if you want to get further into anti-markets start with the link above which talks about something entirely different than academic jobs. the cite for braudel is in there too. i used it in a presentation entitled markets and anti-markets in the software industry.

Oddmusic. Oddmusic is for anyone interested in unique, unusual, ethnic, or experimental music and instruments, according to the site. The gallery is full of strange instruments – some are beautiful, some are whimsical, and some are just silly. Many have samples to listen to, including the noisy-but-impressive Lego Harpsichord. [MetaFilter]

where does he find such wonderful toys? there are some interesting things here for the musically and trivially inclined.

Groove U.

“Groove introduces Groove U, a software and service license program designed to meet the unique needs of higher education institutions. Groove U enables professors and administrators to harness the power of Groove Workspace on a course-by-course basis.“

Groove is definitely worth checking out if you haven't seen it before. What I like about it, like it's predecessor Louts Notes is that it is a development platform for new collaborative applications as much as it is a pre-bundled set of collaborative functions. cf http://www.groove.net/downloads/tools/index.html for a list of additional 3rd party tools available. – SWL

- via [Bruce Landon's Weblog for Students]

[EdTechPost]

if it doesn't work on unix, it should be ignored. i'm posting this in protest.

Enough with humans. Let the flowers talk.. Katinka Matson's scanned flower art : technology lets the flowers speak. “…imagine a painter who could, like Vermeer, capture the quality of light that a camera can, but with the color of paints. That is what a scanner gives you…. In her flowers one can see every microscopic dew drop, leaf vein, and particle of pollen‰¥äin satisfying rich pigmented color…..” (scroll down for images) [MetaFilter]

there is some beautiful images by this artist, she should be proud of her work, i think its nifty.

Gerry McKiernan's presentation for the ALCTS Schol …. Gerry McKiernan's presentation for the ALCTS Scholarly Communications Discussion Group meeting at the ALA annual meeting (Toronto, June 23) is now online. [FOS News]

Gerry and i talked a bit last year inregard to digital archives, he does interesting work.

Candidate Kucinich gets a blog.. Candidate Kucinich gets a blog. Dennis Kucinich has jumped into the weblog arena, making his own posts and accepting comments. He even has an RSS feed. Kucinich's campaign is drawing the largest crowds of any candidate and is expected to perform well in the MoveOn Primary. Kucinich faces tough opposition from Dean, but his support for military budget cuts and tougher accounting practices set him apart from the other candidates. Studs Terkel says “Kucinich Is the One”, and Ralph Nader not only encouraged Kucinich to run, but invited him to speak on the Democracy Rising tour. Will Nader endorse the Kucinich campaign? Can Dennis move the Democratic Party to the left and bring the Greens back into the fold? [MetaFilter]

he is the only respectable left oriented candidate, the rest are all oriented toward the middle. the best part is that he is a progressive, which should make it interesting.

Dave Snowden: Cynicism and Serendipity.

I've never heard Dave Snowden speak before so I was excited to finally get a chance and he did not disappoint.  His good reputation is certainly well earned; Normally the idea of listening to someone speak for 90 minutes at a conference would fill me with icy dread but Dave held us spellbound as he wove ideas around us faster and faster.

[Curiouser and curiouser!]

there is alot of good stuff in this presentation, some is obvious, some others will disagree with, but i found it useful

FLOSS Gives India a Boost in Many Markets and Endeavors. A recent conference in India offered examples of how FLOSS affects everything from education and health services to internal software markets. [Linux Journal]

this is a good conference review, lots of interesting work going on in india.