Signing Off. Gentle Readers, A few months ago, I made a vow to myself that this would be my last semester as an invisible adjunct. Since Iâve failed to secure a full-time position in my final attempt at the academic job market,… [Invisible Adjunct]

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it was nice reading her work:)

Real losses.

Invisible Adjunct has announced that she will be leaving academia and giving up her blog. It’s a very considerable loss – her blog has been wry, balanced, and very very smart. It’s become the core of a real community. She’s going to be missed.

[Crooked Timber]

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yep, ia is moving on. it is likely the best available choice.

DHS.

Homeland Security Job: Director, Entertainment Liason Office

[Wizbang]

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from the 'scary, really scary implications dept.' they control what you watch, they control what you know, they control who says what, to whom and through what microphone…… or perhaps they just want to, or perhaps people believe they don't want to, yet they still want to have some say… who are they? is the american?

Second How to Research Blog. adaldlkka kla… [Vlog 2.1]

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interesting idea, teaching blogging to research students so they can blog their research….

MacEnvy. “Hey, where'd you get the FireFox MacOSX theme?”, I asked Graeme, leaning over to get a better look at his monitor. All of the tabs and forms looked exactly like he was ope… [Catspaw's Guide to the Inevitably Insane]

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new explorations into the gendered interface and the meanings of commercialization… perhaps.

Open Source, Voter Verifiable Voting.

The Open Voting Consortium (with which I am affiliated) is going to be demonstrating an open source, voter veriable, auditable, accessible to physically disabled voters, voting system that runs on commodity hardware and freely available operating systems:

http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/ad/ovc-mar22-pressrelease.pdf

[CaveBear Blog]

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nifty, this could save alot of money.