Posts from — September 2004

sometimes you just wish america would stop acting like a scared child…

minimally, remember…. life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

more coverage:
http://www.altmuslim.com/news_comments.php?id=1296_0_26_0_C

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/09/17/Tampabay/USF_controversy_goes_.shtml

the history of the transformers…..

it should be an interesting issue.

Despair. The seat of my bike was stolen last night.

I just stood and stared when I noticed its absence this morning. There stood my bike, less than a month old, locked up ti… [Catspaw's Guide to the Inevitably Insane]

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i think cat is a statistical anomoly, she seems to bring these things to her.

The mind of the 14 year old boy. baffles me. Exhibit A: The persuasive essay of a boy in my 4th period class. This was his rough draft. Abortion should be legal. It is not right to take someones life that has not started yet. If the mother… [hipteacher]

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reality strikes…..

Cory omigod. Cory's presentation to Microsoft on why DRM is bad for us and bad for them is other-worldly in its brilliance. Damn funny, too. in It is a must-read. In fact, it's a must-be-chiseled-into-lintels. (It's in pdf and it's presented by ChangeThis.)… [Joho the Blog]

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this is a great bit of conceptualization…..

More propaganda remix posters

  New additions to a previously-Boinged online gallery featuring brilliantly modernized versions of old propaganda posters. You can buy the retweaked graphics on sporty messenger bags, t-shirts, coffee cups, and — well by golly, even a thong or two. Link (Thanks, Squiddo)

[bOing bOing]

[A blog doesn't need a clever name]

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these are great!

5,000,000,000 per Year. I had a talk today with Make Technologies, I‰¥úve known them a long time and I have some shares. They‰¥úre doing a lot of work on legacy conversion, both methodology and technology; helping people who have mission-critical applications that they want to move to modern infrastructure, specifically J2EE. I knew that this was an interesting space (even post-Y2K) but I was flabbergasted when Mike Hagerman (Make‰¥ús CEO) told me two numbers: There are five billion new lines of COBOL getting created every year, and there (wait for it) 220 billion lines of COBOL in production. (Holy cow, now that I think about it, I bet I wrote ten or twenty thousand of them). Mike got the numbers from Gartner. That‰¥ús… scary. [ongoing]

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the numbers are huge, and if true, imagine how much is being written in terms of scripting languages adn such…. it must be an immense, unimaginary number…… that is what i call production.

CFP: Rhetorically Rethinking Usability. Via TechRhet comes this call for papers:

The editors of Rhetorically Rethinking Usability: Theories, Practices, and
Methodologies are seeking 15-25 page articles for a collection discussing
how usability studies have impacted theory and practice in writing and
English studies.

The editors invite submissions from a wide range of topic areas and
perspectives. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, usability
and its relationship to:

• Rhetorical situatedness
• Writing practices
• Pedagogical/Teaching practices
• Distance learning
• Hybrid/blended classes
• Learning objects
• Writing software
• Access issues, including language, format, and/or media
• Adoption/adaptation of technologies
• Critical literacies
• Assessment methodologies
• Research practices, theories, and methods
• Redefining usability and its relationship to rhetoric/writing
• Course Design

[Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy]

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this is an interesting publishing opportunity for some people out there.

Milton Mueller, Vint Cerf and others are addressing the questions surrounding the net's future…..