'Ten Questions' Letter Sent to Dick Cheney. Tom Paine reports that Congresspersons Dennis Kucinich, Carolyn Maloney and Bernie Sanders sent this letter with Ten Questions to Vice… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

i'd love to hear the answers, but i doubt we ever will.

France offers grants for games. The French Government is offering millions of euros to fund the development of new video games. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

money money money, its not funny, it makes the world go round…. or whatever…. anyway, this is interesting for those interested in games.

R.I.P., Jude Milhon, St. Jude. Michelle Delio, writing for Wired News. [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

another that will be missed.

AnarchistU: Toronto free school [bOing bOing]

this is a good idea, i wonder if it could be taken to the online environment.

The AAU has made public its reservations about the …. The AAU has made public its reservations about the Sabo bill. Excerpt: “AAU strongly supports what we understand to be the objective of this legislation: to enhance public access to the results of federally funded scientific research. However, we believe that the denial of copyright protection for publications resulting from federally funded research, the primary tool contained in the bill, not only is unnecessary for the achievement of this objective but also may prove quite harmful to the nation's research enterprise….” [Open Access News]

it is quite harmful for profits based on federally funded research which is more and more what underwrites the cost of major state universities, since the states would rather spend the money elsewhere, and not raise taxes to cover the expenses. However, just because bill will slow the corporatization and profit structure of higher education in relation to federally funded research, does not mean that it isn't a good thing for the U.S. in general. It would certainly require new strategies, but maybe one of those is to start arguing that education and higher education with research is important to the national and state economy and generates significantly more economic output than is usually recognized.

A Man With A Memory.

John Cole has 5 good reasons why we went to war, and not a damn one of them involves whether Saddam tried purchasing uranium.

[Electric Venom]

While the Humanitarian aide is certainly and important aspect, lets not forget who is making money providing that aid, and no, it is not the red cross or any other independent international agency….

lets also consider oil, why? because breaking opec's price control is what has yet to occur, but it likely will. This war is foreign policy based on profiterring in energy policy, or at least it is partially. Someone's friends are making money and will continue to make money for some time.

Perl Culture. There's a section devoted to 'language', and another for 'science', in Games, Diversions & Perl Culture, the best of the Perl Journal. [via fieldmethods.net]… [HubLog]

casting perl before swine is not a bad thing, though not a good thing either. I've received a few perl journals before and they always are insightful in some way or another.

Enemies of learning.

Charles Feltman's Enemies of Learning (2-page .pdf) is a quick survey of personal factors that make it harder for us to approach the unknown. A few of the “enemies” that George picked out:

• Our inability to admit that we don't know
• The desire for clarity all the time
• Inability to unlearn
• Lack of trust

(via elearnspace blog via thought?horizon)

[Seb's Open Research]

This is a nifty, short analysis worth considering for anyone that attempts to inspire learning, it might be less appropriate for those that try to teach.

It's the User-Interface Guidelines stupid!. If you want to design a user-interface that is intuitive you need guidelines.  And then you have to encourage developers to follow them.  Oh, and if you Google “Windows User Interface Guidelines” here is where you wind up.  That seems about right. [Ernie the Attorney]

LOL, nothign new hear, there are no guidelines, just look at the mess of interfaces in windows, every new app has a new interface, horrid.