is it even possible… decide for yourself. the running concensus is that CAPITAINE KƒBEC is exemplary of the country. of course, who could forget the famous canadian super-hero 'black beaver'

interesting bit of flash work here.

Intel IT manager simulation simulates sexist workplace assumptions, too [bOing bOing]

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it isn't tha amazing in the end. it just goes to show how surreal a world information technology is that people didn't even imagine there were at least two genders to hire.

Invention as social process. Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process – Sociology Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London

If I weren't going to be in Dublin, I would be attending this event:

Wednesday May 5th 2004
4:00pm – 6:00pm, Seminar Room, 12th Floor Warmington Tower
WORKSHOP ON SOCIOLOGY AND DESIGN
With Martin Wooley, John Wood, Celia Lury, Andrew Barry and Alex Wilkie

Thanks Alex!
[Purse Lip Square Jaw]

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this sounds like it will be an interesting workshop, i like andrew barry's work

Graduate Students and Technology.

. . . . How much technical knowledge/ability should we require our graduate students to have[?]

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. . . . Many philosophy departments dropped their language requirements over the last decade or so – maybe it's time to reinstate something similar.

[Thoughts Arguments and Rants] [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

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these are skills that people should have graduating college… not just graduate students.