Posts from — June 2004

The Flip Side of IT. After asking their chief information officer to resign, administrators at Louisiana State University are looking for a computing manager — and a strategy for affording new technology. (Greater Baton Rouge Business Report) [Chronicle.com - The Wired Campus]

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someone was telling me a long time ago that lsu was a sun/solaris house and that their technical gurus generally did not mesh well with faculty. the clash of the elites happens on occasion.

it is about time!

Draft EU constitution supports free circulation of scientific knowledge. Here's the draft text of Article III-146(1), released June 16, 2004:

The Union's action shall aim to strengthen its scientific and technological bases, by achieving a European research area in which researchers, scientific knowledge and technology circulate freely, and encourage it to become more competitive, including in its industry, while promoting all the research activities deemed necessary by virtue of other Chapters of the Constitution.

(Thanks to Research Research.) (PS: This is very likely “free as in speech” rather than “free as in beer”. But so far, so good.) [Open Access News]

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this is good.

Ashcroft: Soft On (Right-Wing) Terrorists?. by TChris As he often does, Paul Krugman is asking the right question: “is Mr. Ashcroft neglecting real threats to the public because of his ideological biases?” Krugman wonders why Attorney General Ashcroft, who loves to make headlines when the… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

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yes, you can see this is something he would do. and something that bush would support. i mean the texas republican party is actually more or less arguing for the overthrow of the federal government and they are allowed to persist, it is the same with many rightist religious groups…. no word from ashcroft, but ecology and animal rights activists… they are labeled terrorists by this regime.

this is great news. the beats have always been one of my things and now it looks like the naropa institute has added their recordings to archive.org.

SCOTUS: Failure to Reveal Identity Can Be a Crime. by TChris Privacy — freedom from unwarranted governmental intrusion into our lives — is one of the most important values underlying the U.S. Constitution. That value took a big hit today as the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that an individual… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

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well… in the context of a criminal investigation is one thing, but this is a real slippery slope toward fascism.

Happy Solstice!. Why does the midsummer solstice always creep up on me every year? You'd think I'd have got used to it by now, but no, every 21st June I think 'Oh my! That came around quick!' And every year I think 'Oh, so now we start the long descent into winter. Damn. I'd only just got used to it being summer.'

Course, it would help if summer was actually summery, but this is England and that may be just too much to ask. [Chocolate and Vodka]

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of course, here it is cloudy and raining lightly.

Distraction.

I spent an hour or so playing with fish yesterday afternoon. Other OS X users who don’t mind a certain degree of instability (especially with full-screen mode) might lose some time with it, too.

[AKMA’s Random Thoughts]

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looks like fun.

FCC: The History of the Internet. [Scripting News] [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

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haven't looked to see what stories people told yet…..

by weebl