Posts from — April 2004

Margaret Meade. A Good Thought. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever has!

— Margaret Meade [Ted's Radio Weblog] [The Mediaburn Radio Weblog]

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this is a great quote.

B.D.‰¥ús Leg. I‰¥úm surprised there hasn‰¥út been more buzz about Garry Trudeau having blown off B.D.‰¥ús leg today (but, mercifully, apparently he‰¥ús going to live). It hit me kind of hard; this is the first time that the Iraq war has injured a ‰¥þperson I know‰¥? and I‰¥úve known B.D. for going on thirty years now. I don‰¥út suppose it‰¥úll change the political landscape any, but you have to admire Trudeau for taking this on head-on. Plus, on the upside, he also took B.D.‰¥ús dorky helmet off, and it was getting kind of tired after all these years. [ongoing]

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between Doonsberry and Get Fuzzy, two of my favorite cartoons, I'm thinking that more cartoonists need to promote awareness in this arena. Get Fuzzy is especially good, because they ask the question…. Why aren't we Honoring the injured and dead of our country? They deserve it. not just locally, but nationally, they deserve it, but the current administration is against it apparently, as the two people responsible for the flagged coffin's picture yesterday demonstrate. they were fired.

Crash Course into Object Oriented Programming. 22 Apr 2004: The purpose of this article is to give a novice programmer the basic idea of what OOP is, as implemented using PHP. Readers should have a basic knowledge of programming ie what variables are, variable types, basic methods of writing comments, and how to enter code into a text editor. [RootPrompt -- Nothing but Unix]

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this is a very basic introduction, but it might help some people who are interested. today i spent programming in a functional manner instead of a object manner, but the applications is small enough to get away with that right now.

The University Press of Lapland (Finland) will publish a book entitled Lost
and Found in Virtual Reality: Women and Information Technology.

As many researchers struggle to give an account of our immersion in
information and communication technology, which resonates with lived
experience, there is an increasing turn to phenomenology as a way to get
back to the actuality of these experiences. As Merleau-Ponty claims in his
famous preface in Phenomenology of Perception: "Phenomenology is a study of
essences ... But phenomenology is also a philosophy which puts essences back
into existence, and does not except to arrive at an understanding of man and
the world from any starting point other than of their 'facticity.'" It is
with this challenge in mind that Lost and Found in Virtual reality: Women
and Information Technology sees its task.

Contributors are sought for the above book (due for publication in spring
2005) which aims to analyse how women construct their identities and
expertise when using information and communication technology. The monograph
will aim to develop and explore not only phenomenological analysis and
accounts but also a wide range of other approaches to the making of
identity, such as cognition, constructivism, and consciousness studies, of
phenomena such as (but not limited
to):
    - Women, media, mediating and mediation
    - Women, collaboration and cooperation
    - Women, communicating and working
    - Women, information and communication
      technology use
    - Women and virtualisation of everyday life
    - Women, connecting and being connected
    - Women, ethics and mediation
    - Women, technology, learning and improvisation
    - Women, knowledge, knowing and action

Due date: September 30th, 2004

Format: 20 pages, double spaced, MLA style citations.

Additional information: 1) 200-word bio, 2) full name, and 3) contact
information, including e-mail, address, and phone number.

Please, send electronic submissions (MSWord or RTF) to both editors:

Hannakaisa IsomŠki, PhD
Professor
Department of Reseach methodology
University of Lapland
P.O. BOX 122
96101 Rovaniemi, Finland
hannakaisa.isomaki@ulapland.fi

and

Heidi Strengell, PhD, EdD
Director
Language Center
University of Lapland
P. O. BOX 122
96101 Rovaniemi, Finland
heidi.strengell@ulapland.fi or
heidi.strengell@pp.inet.fi

Requests for further information (including topics) should be directed to the
editors: Hannakaisa IsomŠki and Heidi Strengell.

according to kuro5hin, the plane of the author of the little prince has been found…

The Invisible Woman: An Intel Simulation. Via Boing Boing, I found this IT management simulation game on the Intel site. It's an interesting idea; you're a manager who has to hire a team and complete a project using available resources. The problem (as Cory points out)… [misbehaving.net]

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the world is a scary place when things like this occur.

for a mammals this is a first….

Summer and Fall are possibly full of international trips for me…. which is good and bad.

currently, i'm scheduled for:

OII doctoral seminar in Oxford July 14-31

4S in Paris 24-28 of august

Future of the Book 29-31 aug. in beijing

IR 5.0 19-22 of sept. in brighton

I know i will likely make the first one. I know that I'll likely make one of the following two, and then definitely the third. but those two in the middle are awful close.

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Decreasing your Erdos number for fun and profit. For the record, Paul Erdos's Fisher number is 4. Paul Erdos -> Ernst Specker -> Karl Lieberherr -> Paul Dourish -> Danyel Fisher (according to Paul's chart). And the number isn't likely to drop too fast from here. If you… [Made out of people]

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i'm pretty sure that if i put the work into it, that i'd have a erdos number. it is probably a 5 or a 6, but maybe it is lower. i have a fairly short tree to lenin and marx going through kautsky, but overall i'm pretty sure it doesn't matter much. though academic lineage does have some import i suppose in some respects.