Category — General

Governor digs fixing potholes / San Jose crews destroy part of road for staged event:

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger traveled to a quiet San Jose neighborhood Thursday, and — dogged by protesters — filled a pothole dug by city crews just a few hours before, as part of an attempt to dramatize his efforts to increase money for transportation projects.
The choreographed press opportunity — at least the governor’s fourth recent event involving transportation issues — seemed aimed as much at thwarting the demonstrators who have followed Schwarzenegger for weeks as grabbing new attention for his proposal.

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wow, he has it down! if he were born here, he would be president.

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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for Scientific Philosophy in the Hillman Library, widely recognized as the most important archival collection of unpublished material related to the history of logical empiricism in the world, as well as by PhilSci Archives, an Internet-based preprint server that is now the default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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