i'm using drupaled to teach my online course entitled The Internet: Power, Politics, and Policy. my students are already signing up, and it looks like this could work out.

i was suppoed to go there, but i never made it.

Kerry's science and technology plan [bOing bOing]

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worth looking at if you like to think that you occassionally when you have time not doing other things research these things for future writing.

Bizzare Spider-Man comic strip remixes [bOing bOing]

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some of these are really great

Study of porn distribution outside US. “Secure Computing Corporation…today announced the release of the first study of the global distribution of pornographic web pages… The study examined pornographic web pages in the Secure Computing SmartFilter(R) v4 Control List by non-U.S. country suffixes, such as .DE for… [InternetPolicy.net]

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interesting research….

Gore blurts out the truth. Fantastic speech by Gore today about the administration's dangerous consolidation of executive power: The seductive exercise of unilateral power has led this president to interpret his powers under the constitution in a way that would have been the worst nightmare of our framers… …In the end, for this administration, it is all about power. This lie about the invented connection between al Qaeda and Iraq was and is the key to justifying the current ongoing Constitutional power grab by the President. So long as their big flamboyant lie remains an established fact in the publicâs mind, President Bush will be… [Joho the Blog]

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my opinion is that… it isn't just about power, it is the will to use that power to oppress, to disempower, and as such to consolidate that power and build their vision of the new xtian 'merica which looks to me to be much more like the nostalgia of the 50's found in the movie harrison bergeron…….

If Only Gore Had Campaigned Like This. Joho at Hyperorg has the full text of Al Gore’s latest speech. It’s a wow…. [Discourse.net]

College Chief's Comments Air Unexpectedly. When the new president of the University of Texas-Pan American told the university system's regents that she wanted to sack her campus's provost, she didn't know her remarks were being heard online. (Associated Press) [Chronicle.com - The Wired Campus]

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not that suprising, or that humorous, but it is interesting and i'd guess more of this will happen over time.