Tommy, you're permanently expelled!. “Want to get arrested? Walk home with me.” It's LawForKids, the site devoted to giving the kids the education they need about drinking and other kewl stuff through the aid of really, really, Flash games about being a good citizen. Not sure about discouraging kids from crime, but I sure as hell want to stay away from a life of web design now. [MetaFilter]

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interesting phenomena…..

i just made a new tribe for those interested in science and technology studies on tribe.net. so i'm encouraging people to join up. i decised to do it after seeing several other discipline oriented tribes pop up, like communications and sociology, so i thought a nice interdisciplinary tribe would be worth having.

The tiny T-Cube. Speaking of cubes, there's a tiny new full-functioning PC the size (and color) of an orange. The T-Cube, as it's called, runs on the… [Gizmodo]

At Bard College, a Plan to Teach Teachers More of What They're Teaching. The president of Bard College is starting a master's program for prospective high school teachers that will address a common complaint: that teachers do not know enough. By Karen W. Arenson. [New York Times: Education] [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

Scientists pinpoint ingredients for 'feelgood Christmas' [Ananova: Quirkies]

DASER presentations. The presentations from the DASER Summit (Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 21-23, 2003) are being put online. DASER = Digital Archives for Science and Engineering Resources. (Thanks to Garrett Eastman.) [Open Access News]

Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Kenan Sahin (Tech Review, via WSJ) writes about the “innovation backlog” in the US and makes suggestions which we in India could do well to learn and adopt:
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Loosen university intellectual-property rules: University-based research thrived in the 1980s and '90s because of extensive company sponsorships that spawned new innovations, as well as start-ups. That coupling is much weaker now, partly for reasons already mentioned, but also because the intellectual-property policies of universities have become so complex and money-oriented that companies find it increasingly difficult to structure deals. These restrictive policies may also cause academics to lose their entrepreneurial spirit. I suggest that universities allow faculty members to keep a much bigger share of the intellectual property they create, and also change their rules to encourage the transfer of intellectual property, focusing more on their fundamental mission than on revenue generation.

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Captured And Probably Not Invited For Christmas Dinner At The Ranch In Crawford Texas.

Captured And Probably Not Invited For Christmas Dinner At The Ranch In Crawford Texas

Seems they've captured Saddam Hussein. [Halley's Comment]

Happy little pop songs about going to hell. My assistant, The Fabulous Lorraine told me that her band were being interviewed by Euan Kerr for Minneapolis Radio. Here's an article you can read on it, with links. You can also listen to the radio piece on them at the MPR site.

(The article doesn't mention that “City of the Damned” is a Gothic Archies song by Stephin Merritt, though, but it is.) [Neil Gaiman's Journal]

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i meant to post this when it first popped up, seems like we need more songs like this

3.ÊDean, Gov. Howard, VT – Democrat ÊÊ(79%)
4.ÊClark, Retired General Wesley K., AR – Democrat ÊÊ(76%)
5.ÊKucinich, Rep. Dennis, OH – Democrat ÊÊ(73%)Ê
6.ÊEdwards, Senator John, NC – Democrat ÊÊ(71%)Ê
7.ÊGreen Party Candidate ÊÊ(68%)Ê
8.ÊGephardt, Rep. Dick, MO – Democrat ÊÊ(64%)Ê

9.ÊSharpton, Reverend Al – Democrat ÊÊ(57%)ÊÊ
10.ÊKerry, Senator John, MA – Democrat ÊÊ(56%)ÊÊ

11.ÊLieberman, Senator Joe, CT – Democrat ÊÊ(41%)Ê

12.ÊMoseley-Braun, Former Senator Carol, IL – Democrat ÊÊ(37%)

the first two were moot, as they were my ideal candidate and the socialist candidate, now dean is on my list… before i had kucinich at the lead… hmmmm.