Promoting the global information commons: A statement by IFLA to WSIS Tunis PrepCom2, 2005:
Finally, we invite you to our pre-Summit conference in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt, on 10 and 11 November 2005 at which we will show how libraries and information services around the world are realising the global information society for all.

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i wonder, i’d prolly never get funding for it…. but…. this is before ppf, which is before…. wsis… could i go to all three?

Anonymity and Privacy :

some interesting compsci type readings on the topic

Bunny suicides:

hehehehe

Crooked Timber: Time Out of Joint :
Academia is for losers. It’s like dungeons and dragons with doctoral degrees. “You know that shit’s not real, right?”

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heh…..

Our Godless Constitution:
It is hard to believe that George Bush has ever read the works of George Orwell, but he seems, somehow, to have grasped a few Orwellian precepts. The lesson the President has learned best–and certainly the one that has been the most useful to him–is the axiom that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. One of his Administration’s current favorites is the whopper about America having been founded on Christian principles. Our nation was founded not on Christian principles but on Enlightenment ones. God only entered the picture as a very minor player, and Jesus Christ was conspicuously absent.

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Among the appointees to the department’s 20 member “Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee” is D. Reed Freeman, the “chief privacy officer” of Claria Corporation.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/02/23/gator/index.html?source=RSS