Posts from — June 2005

UNESCO Employment/Fellowships:

NESCO is looking for applicants with education/expertise in the following subject areas:
Education: basic education and literacy, HIV/AIDS prevention education, teacher training in Sub-Saharan Africa
Natural Sciences: water and associated eco-systems
Social and Human Sciences: ethics of science and technology with emphasis on bioethics
Culture: protection of tangible and intangible heritage
Communication: access to information and knowledge (ICT)
Program Support : finance and general administration
If you do not meet the following criteria your application will not be considered.
U.S. Citizen
Under age 30 as of 01/01/2006
Fluency in English or French, knowledge of both is an asset

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this could be good. I hope they keep it up, though I’m too old

Ian Buchanan, “The Axiomatic, or, The Seven…:

Ian Buchanan, “The Axiomatic, or, The Seven Givens of the Contemporary World”

another of buchanan’s interpretation of deleuze. could be useful.

Optware Holographic 30GB Card:

Optware, the leaders in everything holographic (except my limited edition holographic Picachu), have a new type of media. This is roughly the size of a credit card and hold 30GB worth of data. It is called the Holographic Versatile Card (HVC) and is going to join the lines of Blu ray and HD DVD for the throne of the next big media. Right now the HVC seems less practical in home uses because the HVC reader costs $1800 dollars while each 30GB card is going to be under $1. For large server purposes this seems more practical.

I’m wondering if these might not be a good console gaming storage device. Hmmm? Hmmm?

Optware to Release 30 GB Holographic Card for Less than $1 at the End of 2006 [NikkeiBP]

cool….

nice little video demonstration:

The Illuminated Middle Ages
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The Illuminated Middle Ages database presents several hundred recently digitized illuminated texts from French national library collections. While the full collection, in even higher resolution, is available for purchase on DVD-ROM, this web site gives access to the entire database. Only a portion of the full collection has been translated into English for the web site, but visitors may also view the French-language galleries in the site, where a dozen texts from each of the ten themes are presented daily. To see every text in high resolution, you will have have to either visit the site daily or order the DVD. In the meantime, the search interface allows you to perform full-text searches across the complete database. You are sure to enjoy this collection of breathtaking texts dating from the year 500 through the 1400s.

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this is pretty good

How to Perform the Balducci Levitation – wikiHow:

How to Perform the Balducci LevitationAmaze someone by gently rising about 4 inches off the ground.

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how to do some stuff.

Drinking Liberally – Start Your Own Drinking Liberally:

Drinking LiberallySM
Promoting democracy one pint at a time.

i think this is a good idea

BBC – Radio 3 – Beethoven Experience – downloads:

Download all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies here the day after they are broadcast. All the symphonies are performed by BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.

Click on the link to download the file, and save it to your computer. Depending on your set-up, you might need to right click or hold down your mouse button and select “Save As…” or “Save Target As…” in the menu that pops up.
Once you’ve downloaded the file you can listen to it at your own convenience.

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this is good.

The Washington Monthly:

BARBARISM IN TEXAS….This story is almost too horrible for words. The details are a little thin, but here’s the outline.

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there are jobs at the information school at ut austin. jobs that i would apply for… but i could not live with texas state politics. i won’t be a part of there sort of insanity.

::Civiblog.org – home:::

Welcome to Civiblog, a one-stop-site for global civil society. Canadian to the core — ever-devoted to peacekeeping and “globalist” foreign policies — it is our aim to showcase all communiqué in the sector, at home and abroad, onsite and by way of links and RSS syndication to partner sites. We are tapping into two explosive movements at once: 1) the growth of the citizen sector and 2) blogging, which is an increasingly popular tool with the potential to empower citizens the world over, one post at a time.

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interesting project