who pays, who gets excluded because of that. in fact the most of the time it is just a new version of the same old systematic exclusion of people, in this case medical researchers, and the politics surrounding that can be extraordinarily problematic.

BOFH makes a hardware call. Episode 23 Bloody maintenance companies [The Register]

Rageboy on IRC.

After listening to me talk about the virtues of IRC, Rageboy sent me a link to something he wrote in 1996 about IRC and the future of discourse. As you can imagine, it's very funny.

[Joi Ito's Web]

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this is great stuff, hilarious and as true as any other possible reality.

Hot and Cool, Baby! ~ Post-Marshall McCluhan. Raumpatrouille meets Art. Art meets Raumpatrouille. This gallery of Shag Paintings comes inspired by an entry in the cleverly made Eye of the Goof weblog. Fab. Another Raumpatrouille Fan! [The Cartoonist] [The Mediaburn Radio Weblog]

these are some cool shags!

today i finished paying off my credit card debt from grad school, which i shouldn't have run up, but i was younger and less wise to the world of credit, but now it's all gone, no more done, yippee!

Research List of Lists. Research List of Lists
http://www.aoir.org/list.php

A very comprehensive list of lists related to research. Listservs® have been available on the Internet for years and still represent the number one way of staying current on the areas of your profession even though RSS feeds are breathing down their necks! [Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker]

we probably need to update the list of lists though:)