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part of what i’m using to teach courses this semester. it is an elgg install.

Adultery could mean life | Battle Creek Enquirer – www.battlecreekenquirer.com – Battle Creek, Mich.:
In a ruling sure to make philandering spouses squirm, Michigan’s second-highest court says that anyone involved in an extramarital fling can be prosecuted for first-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony punishable by up to life in prison.

“We cannot help but question whether the Legislature actually intended the result we reach here today,” Judge William Murphy wrote in November for a unanimous Court of Appeals panel, “but we are curtailed by the language of the statute from reaching any other conclusion.”

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so… while adultery is wrong… is it worth life in prison?

OpinionJournal – Extra:
While concepts such as “emotional intelligence” and “multiple intelligences” have their uses, a century of psychometric evidence has been augmented over the last decade by a growing body of neuroscientific evidence. Like it or not, g exists, is grounded in the architecture and neural functioning of the brain, and is the raw material for academic performance. If you do not have a lot of g when you enter kindergarten, you are never going to have a lot of it. No change in the educational system will change that hard fact.
That says nothing about the quality of the lives that should be open to everyone across the range of ability. I am among the most emphatic of those who think that the importance of IQ in living a good life is vastly overrated. My point is just this: It is true that many social and economic problems are disproportionately found among people with little education, but the culprit for their educational deficit is often low intelligence. Refusing to come to grips with that reality has produced policies that have been ineffectual at best and damaging at worst.

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I think we can see this pretty clearly in reading ability. However, I’m not sure that things are as determinist as this author seems to think.

Tinderbox ☙ Yojimbo: Wow!:
It’s nice to surprise a reporter.

Merlin Mann was interviewing Patrick Woolsey, COO of BareBones, on the floor at MacWorld Expo (video here) for MacBreak. They’re talking about Yojimbo, which Patrick calls “a digital junk drawer — a place to store all that stuff that, otherwise, is going to accumulate on your desktop.”

About half way through, Woolsey mentioned that Yojimbo now comes with each copy of Tinderbox.
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I like tinderbox… i’ve crashed yohimbo…. went back to devonthink pro….

http://www.coffeebeanrecords.com/featured.htm

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Phil and Naomi, friends of mine from Australia, have created some great music. Some of it is freely available on their label, coffeebean records. Creative Commons licensed and everything:)