Posts from — May 2005

Announcing the 60 Second Story Competition:

We need more stories in our lives, yet we don’t have much time for them. Most digital cameras and webcams allow you to take one minute of video and audio at resolutions suitable for the web. The solution: 60 second stories, of course.

We are pleased to announce the 60 second …

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this could be fun…

More on the PhilSci OA repository:

James Lennox is retiring as director of the University of Pittsburth’s Center for Philosophy of Science (CPS). For the OA connection, think about this paragraph from a news story on Lennox and CPS: ‘The center’s world-class reputation is enhanced by the Archives for Scientific Philosophy in the Hillman Library, widely recognized as the most important archival collection of unpublished material related to the history of logical empiricism in the world, as well as by PhilSci Archives, an Internet-based preprint server that is now the default prepublication site for philosophy of science scholarship.’

(PS: I like this. An eminent academic research center believes its reputation is enhanced by its association with an OA repository. The typical pattern today is the reverse. Let’s hope to see more of this in the future.)

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this seems like it might be a good thing….

NBC5.com – Education – District Apologizes To Student Identified As ‘Black Girl’ In Yearbook:

A North Texas school district has apologized to a student identified only as “Black Girl” in a high school yearbook photo of the school’s National Honor Society.

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it never ends…

Torino Pictures

BBC NEWS | Europe | French thinker Paul Ricoeur dies:

French philosopher and teacher Paul Ricoeur, whose interests ranged from phenomenology to biblical exegesis, has died, aged 92.
As well as teaching at the Sorbonne in Paris, he spent 15 years at the University of Chicago.

Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com:

“I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us,” said one old woman, as she sat on the ground outside her house.

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from phantomcity

http://pictures.tmttlt.com/italy-1/italy-1.html

i’m in Torino, Italy today, and I’ve been sitting in the lobby wasting some time as i get ready to head to the triple helix conference. And i noted that the way we structure the light in a room affects us significantly. it realigns spaces and defines relationships. What keyed me on this is the difference between looking at my laptop screen vs looking at the people and darkness in the Lobby. It is basically an l shaped room with dark spots where the most activity is. They’ve targetted lights so you can see in certain ways and not see in others. this is heightened by the perpetual light of my screen, which is the brightest white light in the room. all the others lights are yellow.

riding a bike at light speed:

SI.com – NCAA Football – Va. Tech shuffles seats to reward generous boosters – Sunday May 15, 2005 2:04PM:

The name of the game is money.