this article is a clear condemnation of the Republican anti-science anti-education agenda, why is anti-science implied anti-education, because you can't teach science if you don't know and support science, because what you end up teaching is decidedly not knowledge, but closer to ideology in disguised as science. This is not just a scientific problem, but also if you don't know the humanities and the arts, you can't really teach them, just as if you don't believe in rights, you can't recognize them.

ICSTM 2004: Transforming Organizations to Achieve Sustainable Success
Venue: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Date: Wednesday 19th May 2004 to Friday 21st May 2004
Paper Deadline:Wednesday 1st October 2003
Topics of Interest:Electronic Learning,Social Issues
Further Information:See conference web site at
http://www.icstm.org/

kindly don't think you are poor:

here faculty generally make over $30000, some make much much more, some a bit less, depending on a variety of things, but still that makes them richer than 96% of the world minimally.

graduate students on stipend, figure tuition and a few hundred a month comes to $20k, well that put you in the top 8% of the world in salary…..

i know it seems like people are poor in respect to the students driving around in corvettes and other $50k autos or the like, but remember it is all a matter of population and wealth in the end, perhaps it is time to reconsider that inheritance tax…

that talk like a pirate day is next friday, yes next friday, this rare opportunity to talk like a pirate all day long only comes through once each year and thus should be savored for its pure formal ritualized delite.

I'd like to read all of the papers/presentations at this conference

Risks of Knowledge and its Application
Conflicts Between Designing Power and Value Fixation of Applied Science
General Knowledge and Specific Forms of Application

all topics that are highly relevant

The Man, The Donkey, The Toolbox. Divine architecture or crafty workmanship? Mysterious guy shows up on a donkey to make a spiral staircase for the Loretto Chapel that defies structural possibility. Made mainly of wood, it contains no support beams and uses only wood pegs to hold it together. [MetaFilter]

well there are these little iron bits that sort of hold it up, but it is a great work of an unknown master carpenter. Too many people fail to recognize the value of skilled carpenters and most people will never meet a master carpenter their whole life, so when they see something completely amazing like this, they imagine it to be the work of God, humans have a way of assuming things.

This is a list, growing throughout today probably, of books and other material that are central to my dissertation. I'll put them in some sort of categorical separation and i'll keep adding to it throughout today.

Science and Technology Studies:

• Latour and Woolgar: Laboratory Life
• Latour: Science in Action
• Tuomi: Networks of Innovation
• Winner: The Whale and The Reactor
• Barry, Political Machines

Open Source Literature:

• Raymond, Cathedral and the Bazaar
• Torvalds, Just for Fun
• Stallman, Gnu Manifesto
• Stallman, Free as in Freedom
• Proceedings of the 1st,2nd, 3rd Congress on Open Source Software Production

Software Studies:

• Behind the blip
• Interface Culture
• Code and other laws of cyberspace
• The Future of Ideas
• From Airline to Sonic the Hedgehog

Political Economy:

1. Class Warfare in the Information Society
2. Network Society
3. Theories of Political Economy
4. The Accursed Share
5. Virtuality Check

International Perspectives:

1. Modernity at Large
2. Software Production in India
3. The International Software

I'll add more shortly

7th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers.

The 7th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers is coming up next month. White Plains, New York.

(Thanks, Jay!)

[Smart Mobs]

i would think that this would be a larger conference…

Reread One Of Dave Barry's Best. With the anniversary, now is a good time to remember just how amazing Americans can be when they take up the fight. The passengers on Flight 93 did not need a centralized authority to tell them what to do, did not need to be reminded what the consequences would be. they did what they had to do. Just as the Alamo is remembered for similar reasons, so should the passengers of Flight 93. Yet they seem to have been forgotten so soon. [A Man with a Ph.D. - Richard Gayle's Weblog]

too many people forget too many things, rushing about not thinking, but sometimes a bit of rememberance is called for.