now i know money disappears, but i also know that money doesn't disappear in this amount without someone getting fired in a major way. think of it as losing twice the annual budget of the United Kingdon. this is worse by far than reagan era scandal, much much worse.

Dyke to open up BBC archive. BBC boss Greg Dyke plans to give the public full free online access to the corporation's archives. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

this is a good thing, first the ibm archives as noted by Matt a while back and now the bbc.

Utopian Architecture. Ever wonder what Utopia might look like? So have 300 years of Russian architects. [MetaFilter]

I remember that a few years ago there was some movement about documenting the 'crisis' architecture movement in the former u.s.s.r. (i don't know if it was called crisis, but it was building things to look like they would collapse, be broken, etc. symbolizing a real break) there wer some nifty designs linked about from a wide variety of places.

New blog: netwoman. It's not often that I come across blogs about gender and technology, but here is a new one: Netwoman by… [GENDER & COMPUTING]

Campus Cutbacks Hit the Classroom. Many public universities have reluctantly begun chopping away at academics, making it harder for students to graduate on time. By Greg Winter. [New York Times: Education]

i will say that i think that there may be much more politics involved in some of these occurances than perhaps should be.

nonetheless my position is: raise taxes and guarantee the success of the future by investing in education. the booms of the 80's-90's are probably much more an effect of the huge investment in education int the 60's-70's than anything else. of course, comparative funding levels now point toward a much less optimistic future, but you see this is a choice voters can make, they can tell their state governments to pay for education.

Former Dot-Commers Are Adjusting, Painfully. Chapter 2 of the Great Dot-Com Bust has begun, the part in which former employees of start-ups try to re-acclimate to the corporate world. By Claudia H. Deutsch. [New York Times: Technology]

this article has several levels to consider, but most dishearteningly the core seems to be “don't encourage a culture of taking big chances”.

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i like quizzes that seem to have good characters….