Posts from — January 2005

Technology and time poverty:

Jenny Holzer’s Project:
please change beliefs…

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gotta love jenny holzer’s art.

Animal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy

Scientists have begun blurring the line between human and animal by producing chimeras—a hybrid creature that’s part human, part animal.

Chinese scientists at the Shanghai Second Medical University in 2003 successfully fused human cells with rabbit eggs. The embryos were reportedly the first human-animal chimeras successfully created. They were allowed to develop for several days in a laboratory dish before the scientists destroyed the embryos to harvest their stem cells.

Things You’d Like To Say At Work, But Can’t

Things You’d Love to Say at Work, but Can’t

1. I can see your point, but I still think you’re full of shit.

2. I don’t know what your problem is, but I’ll bet it’s hard to pronounce.

3. How about never? Is never good for you?

4. I see you’ve set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public.

5. I’m really easy to get along with once you people learn to see it my way.

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and there’s more!

From ivory tower to academic sweatshop ….:
From ivory tower to academic sweatshop. After a few dot-com-era bumps, online education is back and bigger than ever. But so is corporate influence and bottom-line pressure. [Salon.com]

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this is worth a read……

Philip Johnson, the innovative architect who promoted the “glass box” skyscraper and then smashed the mold with daringly nostalgic post-modernist designs, has died. He was 98.

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he was one of my favorite architects.

BleachSoft:
http://www.bleacheatingfreaks.com/science/OB2/

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if you have spare time….

Burns supper – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burns_supper

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well today is the day

BleachSoft:
http://www.bleacheatingfreaks.com/science/OB2/

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if you have spare time….

Yahoo! News – Top Stories Photos – AP:
Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Due, right, a U.S. Army recruiter, is surrounded by protesters at Seattle Central Community College, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005, in Seattle. After about a 10-minute standoff during which protesters tore up U.S Army literature, the protesters were successful in getting Due and another recruiter to leave their table under escort by campus security officers. Several hundred students walked out of classes at several Seattle colleges and universities to protest the inauguration of President Bush (news – web sites). (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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interesting….. but it isn’t about what the recruiters are…. it is about who they represent. the professional military are fine, but there are real issues with the civilian leadership.