Posts from — May 2005

Free High School Science Texts – free science textbooks for South Africa, Grades 10 – 12:

this sounds like a great project.

How To Find MP3’s With Google:

The Mobile Information Society
:

there are some papers too, but mostly there are only abstracts.

Blogthings – The American Cities That Best Fit You:

What is Your World View?
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http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=1397&date=20050509

China “suspected of spying at Swedish universities”

(AFP/The Local) China is suspected of hiring scientists to spy and steal unpatented research from Swedish universities, Swedish public radio reported on Monday.

Quoting an unnamed detective within Sweden’s security service, Säpo, radio news program Ekot reported that guest scientists from China were suspected of stealing unpublished and unpatented research from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

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wow! just wow. this is the sort of thing i just don’t expect to come from Sweden. Oh, I can see it happening… that is not an issue, knowledge is ’stolen’ or more precisely ’shared’ all the time. That is the nature of science, it is communal and shared. It is not personal/private and owned. However, when states stop underwriting knowledge generation and knowledge producers have to turn to profit and guarantee mechanisms to ensure their future livelihood and the continued existence of their institutions, traditional understandings start to fade awy.

Putfile – Upload Video and Upload Images:

Custom Action Figures & Personalized Action Figures that look like
you.:

oh this is great fun.

TASTELESS WTC SAND SCULPTURE DONE IN INDIA 11-16:

it doesn’t seem so bad to me. I like the cartoonish quality of the plane.

Chronicle – Leaving Academe:

On my first day in the English dept, an aged colleague, grizzled and smelling slightly of gin, sidled over and said – ‘Some people hold that reading great books makes one a better and more moral person. Well, I’ve read a great many books and look at me….

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classic.