White House Officials: It’s Condi Rice: “White House officials are telling Fox News that Bush has decided on Condi Rice to replace Colin Powell as Secretary of State….”

(Via TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime.)

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talk about your major bad news………..

OA to “the DNA of literature”: ”

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(Via Open Access News.)

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this is great! we need more things like this….

Cream Stirring Up 2005 Reunion: “”

(Via .)

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in a world where few celebrations are worth performing…. this is something to celebrat.

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: “”

(Via .)

tell them to go screw.

The gender_cyber_archive: “

Anyone interested in feminist theory, particularly as it applies to technology, ought to peruse the gender_cyber_archive, unless you already have and I’m the last to find out about it. In the archive are written essays and audio lectures in .ram format. I’m especially interested in these:

• Joan W. Scott, Fictitious Unities: «Gender,» «East,» and «West»
• Donna J. Haraway, Alpha Bitches Online:the Dog Genome for the Next Genderation
• Anne Phillips, Feminist Politics: Facing the Future
• Susan Stanford Friedman, Locational Feminism: Gender, Cultural Geographies, and Geopolitical Literacy
• Angela Thomas and Valerie Walkerdine, Girls and Computer Games
• Maria Pini, Girls on Film: Video Diaries as ‘Auto-Ethnographies’

Cross-posted to CultureCat.

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(Via Kairosnews – A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy.)

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interesting… i should get this mirrored or something. it goes well with the feminist theory archive, which i’m moving to wiki this summer.

Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / How ‘Dungeons’ changed the world: “”

(Via .)

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imagination doesn’t solve all problems, but it does help.

The arbitrary and contingent cruelty of life: “Life is unfair. It is probably more unfair now than it has ever been, simply because some countries have been better at organizing their societies to produce more and better goods, and at stimulating their populations to act in more…”

(Via Paul Musgrave Dot Com.)

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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where very man is enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodious building; no instruments of moving, and removing, such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty brutish and short. Hobbes.

Two from the NYT:…: “Two from the NYT:

• Open Season on Others’ Ideas. Free riders have hit the jackpot in the digital revolution, and we’d better deal with it. By DANIEL AKST.

(Via A blog doesn’t need a clever name.)

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i only like this one.

Top scientist asks: is life all just a dream?: “Rees, Royal Society professor of astronomy at Cambridge University, will say that it is now possible to conceive of computers so powerful that they could build an entire virtual universe.”

(Via Gyre.org.)

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this is just fascinating isn’t it?

EA Faces Class-Action Overtime Suit News Story From 1UP.com: “”

(Via .)

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sometimes….. you have to sue for economic justic.