Institut Pasteur signs the Berlin Declaration. The Institut Pasteur has signed the Berlin Declaration Open Access to Knowledge. [Open Access News]

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more on the berlin declaration on open access

Ladies, Your Uterus Belongs To The State.

This is scary…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – As Melissa Ann Rowland's unborn twins got closer to birth, doctors repeatedly told her they would likely die if she did not have a Caesarean section. She refused, and one later was stillborn.

Authorities charged 28-year-old Rowland with murder on Thursday, saying she exhibited “depraved indifference to human life,” according to court documents. One nurse told police that Rowland said she would rather “lose one of the babies than be cut like that.”

The case could affect abortion rights and open the door to the prosecution of mothers who smoke or don't follow their obstetrician's diet, said Marguerite Driessen, a law professor at Brigham Young University.

“It's very troubling to have somebody come in and say we're going to charge this mother for murder because we don't like the choices she made,” she said.

I'll have much more to say about this in a few minutes…

[Wizbang]

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Oh My, i can't believe that they would compromise the sanctity of a persons rights over his or her body. That is not right. The living person has complete right over his or her body, the unborn have no necessary rights to anything. This better be thrown out.

Better Than The Real Thing?. The provisional Iraqi constitution is worth reading in full, both for the SimCity fascination (what would you put in a brand-new constitution?) and as a comparison to whatever you're living under right now. For example, even though certain sections are… [101-280]

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i kind of like the provisional iraqi constitution. I like specifically the clarity of rights it expresses.

Australia censors net censorship data. In AustraliaIT, Kate Mackenzie reports that “The Federal Government has stopped issuing reports on the number of websites it has censored… Despite a Senate motion passed in September 1999 calling on the Communications Minister to issue six-monthly reports on any… [InternetPolicy.net]

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why is it that governments of late, particularly democracies, at least in spirit, are covering up so much information that is pertinent to the publics understanding of their operation?

Regular readers know that I'm a sucker for big ste …. Regular readers know that I'm a sucker for big steps back from the usual myopic view of what the purpose of education could be. Education – What Should Be Taught? is one of those thought-provoking pieces that basically points out how much important stuff we don't know when we get out of high school. It's pretty funny, too. [Jeremy Hiebert's headspaceJ -- Instructional Design and Technology]

Theories informing my research [infosophy: socio-technological rendering of information]

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Mentor has a great explanation of actor-network theory here. it is well worth reading.

Ok. We're here now….

I've finally gotten Drupal under control. The problem was trying to run it at the domain root. Doing drupal at jasonnolan.net didn't cut it. So I moved it to stuff.jasonnolan.net aka jasonnolan.net/stuff. And that's so much better. Now I can spend less time on formatting, and more on content. I hope.

[Team Polysynchronous - Just Differently Intelligent - - Just Differently Intelligent -]

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jason has drupal working…. or so he thinks, mwahahahahah <—evil laughter.

Blogging Spaces and PlacesKaye blogs anywhere – s …. Blogging Spaces and Places
Kaye blogs anywhere – sometimes in bed.

Jeff Jarvis noticed some German and Finnish blogs talking about the places they blog.

I think this is very interesting, seeing where it all comes from.
This is fascinating stuff.
[Netwoman]

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Like kaye, i've blogged from bed. a typical day starts with picking up the computer and ends with putting it to sleep, in between that time, i blog nearly everywhere that i go. this is because my blog is on the laptop, and the aggregator and editor more or less can be used any time and will then upload and download when i go online.