Posts from — January 2005

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.

i4donline.net ~ News Archive:
The International Open Source Network, an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme, has produced a 48-page primer on ‘Free/Open Source Software and Education’, which is now available for free public download. The primer is intended to help policy-makers and decision-makers understand the potential use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in education.

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this is good news

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News Release – New partnership supports open source publishing software development – January 20, 2005:
The University of British Columbia’s Public Knowledge Project (PKP), the Simon Fraser University Library and SFU’s Canadian Center for Studies in Publishing (CCSP) have formed a partnership to support the maintenance and ongoing development of the internationally acclaimed open source software developed by PKP.

Under the direction of John Willinsky (PKP), Rowland Lorimer (CCSP) and Lynn Copeland (SFU Library), the software development will remain focused on improving the scholarly and public quality of published research, supporting the efforts of those with little experience with scholarly publishing and publishing technologies, reducing costs associated with publishing, and supporting a variety of publishing and economic models, including various forms of open access to the contents of journals.

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cool, this is good news….

QBlog:
I recently completed another novel (my third — the second one also didn’t get published on account of how there’s no such genre as Social Science Fiction).

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what about national social policy of the u.s. or great britain since the advent of thatcher and reagan eh? that is social science fiction.

Yahoo! News – Princeton Cracks Down on Grade Inflation
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At other Ivy League schools, the percentages of A’s in undergraduates courses ranges from 44 percent to 55 percent, according to Princeton’s Web site. At Harvard University, 91 percent of seniors graduated with some kind of honors in 2001.

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building on the fact that awards beget rewards, this is why i don’t like award culture….. it rewards people and usually the same elite, not necessarily those deserving.

otherwise the article is about princeton’s anti-grade inflation measures.

Phrack E-zine Comes To An End:
Flammable writes “Since 1985 Phrack has been releasing ezines to public about Hacking, Cracking, Radio, Social Engineering, etc. All things come to an end, and Phrack is no different: the last issue, #63, is accepting articles from the community now.”

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too bad really, it was a touchstone for quite a bit of info.

Michael Powell to Leave FCC:
Anonymous Slashdotter writes “Michael Powell, chairman of the FCC, will be stepping down from his post soon. ‘Powell, who maintained a light regulatory hand as the nation’s chief media watchdog but collected some of the largest indecency fines against U.S. broadcasters, planned to issue a statement Friday but was not expected to hold a formal news conference, these officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.’”

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hmmm, who is worse…. who is the worse person they can appoint.

Prospect – article_details:
To be concerned today with the Enlightenment ideals of freedom, democracy and reason, one needs to think about their entrenchment in an era in which political communities and states matter, but not solely and exclusively. States are hugely important vehicles for aiding the delivery of effective public regulation, equality and social justice, but they should not be thought of as occupying a privileged level of politics.

Satannnnn | CafePress:
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that the bush family loves satan shouldn’t surprise anyone….. time between hand signal and t-shirt product less than 8 hours.