Posts from — January 2005

the Backseat Kiss – Snow Globes:
Backseat Kiss Snow Globes
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watch the kittie?

Edublog Revisited:
In Edublog Revisited, Rochelle the wise muses on Educational Blogging: Long ago a small group of educators got together and formed a group called Edublog. The point, as I recall, was to create blogs for educational use; to promote the…

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contrary to popular belief, there is no edublog initiative.

Weapon inspectors fly out of Iraq:
It seems the US has finally accepted what everybody already knew: Sadam didn’t have any weapons of massive destruction or was trying to make them when the country was invaded. The US inspectors sent to the country to verify…
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imagine that… no wmd….. is this surprising?

A humanist future: Now that God is dead: printer friendly version:
God is dead.

Even the confident religions know this. When their god was overwhelmingly alive he did not permit them to mingle with the followers of other gods: Now they come together to increase the volume of their protests against the noisy indifference of the scoffers in the market place. But the god of the marketplace is also dead. Secular confidence in the ability of atheistic rationality to deliver the good society has been undermined by an invasion of the angry ghosts of dead religion and by the ugly excesses of materialist consumerism.

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mmmm nihlism, tasty….

OA library of indigenous knowledge:
T. V. Padma, Digital library to protect indigenous knowledge, SciDev.Net, January 10, 2005. Excerpt: ‘South Asian countries will create a digital library of the region’s traditional knowledge and develop laws to prevent such knowledge being misappropriated through commercial patents. The plan was announced at a two-day workshop held in Delhi, India, last week by the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).

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this is very important. if ip does exist, and this is debatable, then much of it has been stolen.

Salary Clock | Check your real time earnings:
http://salaryclock.com/

somewhat depressing.

MilkandCookies – Monkey Taunts Tiger:
http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/12072/

this is pretty funny….

Growing Up Global – written road blog:
“The writers represented here are the “privileged homeless,” according to Pico Iyer, whose brilliant, witty essay opens this collection by those who remember growing up as foreigners with families always on the move. Army brats, missionaries’ children, diplomats’ children, or those whose parents just couldn’t stay put, these adult writers still feel like strangers everywhere, longing to belong even as they fear attachment. There is sometimes a whining note of self-pity– you can hear the therapy session–and, except as metaphor, these restless essayists don’t even see the “streetbums” around them, the millions of child refugees and migrant workers who are truly homeless today. But many of the best writers, including Isabel Allende, Ariel Dorfman, and Tara Bahrampour, speak eloquently about the pain and also the riches of the search for home. Pat Conroy didn’t like the military life: “Each year I began my life all over again . . . and I think it damaged me.” In contrast, Carlos Fuentes found identity in contact, in contrast, in breakthrough. The editors provide excellent commentary and author bios.” —Hazel Rochman

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A Letter to “Dear Abby”:
This bit of hilarity came in from the inbox. Enjoy! DEAR ABBY,My husband has a long record of money problems. He runs up huge credit card bills. At the end of the month, if I try to pay them off,…

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heh heh heh, were it not a good description, this would be funnier. now the humor is tainted with tragedy.

Folks;

In June 2004 a workshop on Mentoring in Engineering was held at Stanford with the joint support of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM, administered by the NSF and funded by the White House) and the Stanford School of

Engineering. The two day workshop brought together graduate students and all levels of faculty for presentations and discussions on the needs, goals, methods, and best practices for mentoring students, junior faculty, and mid level faculty for academic careers. The emphasis was on mentoring members of underrepresented groups in academic engineering, especially women, but most of the topics are common to all interested in academic engineering careers. An excerpt on Women Professors With Children appears below followed by a copy of the table of contents of the proceedings. The full Workshop Proceedings are available at the workshop website http://paesmem.stanford.edu/ in both pdf format for printing and html

format for Web viewing.