Category — General

Jenny Holzer’s Project:
please change beliefs…

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gotta love jenny holzer’s art.

From ivory tower to academic sweatshop ….:
From ivory tower to academic sweatshop. After a few dot-com-era bumps, online education is back and bigger than ever. But so is corporate influence and bottom-line pressure. [Salon.com]

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this is worth a read……

Burns supper – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burns_supper

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well today is the day

Yahoo! News – Top Stories Photos – AP:
Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Due, right, a U.S. Army recruiter, is surrounded by protesters at Seattle Central Community College, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005, in Seattle. After about a 10-minute standoff during which protesters tore up U.S Army literature, the protesters were successful in getting Due and another recruiter to leave their table under escort by campus security officers. Several hundred students walked out of classes at several Seattle colleges and universities to protest the inauguration of President Bush (news – web sites). (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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interesting….. but it isn’t about what the recruiters are…. it is about who they represent. the professional military are fine, but there are real issues with the civilian leadership.

Yahoo! News – Top Stories Photos – AP:
Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Due, right, a U.S. Army recruiter, is surrounded by protesters at Seattle Central Community College, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005, in Seattle. After about a 10-minute standoff during which protesters tore up U.S Army literature, the protesters were successful in getting Due and another recruiter to leave their table under escort by campus security officers. Several hundred students walked out of classes at several Seattle colleges and universities to protest the inauguration of President Bush (news – web sites). (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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interesting….. but it isn’t about what the recruiters are…. it is about who they represent. the professional military are fine, but there are real issues with the civilian leadership.

i4donline.net ~ News Archive:
The International Open Source Network, an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme, has produced a 48-page primer on ‘Free/Open Source Software and Education’, which is now available for free public download. The primer is intended to help policy-makers and decision-makers understand the potential use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in education.

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this is good news

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QBlog:
I recently completed another novel (my third — the second one also didn’t get published on account of how there’s no such genre as Social Science Fiction).

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what about national social policy of the u.s. or great britain since the advent of thatcher and reagan eh? that is social science fiction.

Yahoo! News – Princeton Cracks Down on Grade Inflation
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At other Ivy League schools, the percentages of A’s in undergraduates courses ranges from 44 percent to 55 percent, according to Princeton’s Web site. At Harvard University, 91 percent of seniors graduated with some kind of honors in 2001.

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building on the fact that awards beget rewards, this is why i don’t like award culture….. it rewards people and usually the same elite, not necessarily those deserving.

otherwise the article is about princeton’s anti-grade inflation measures.

Phrack E-zine Comes To An End:
Flammable writes “Since 1985 Phrack has been releasing ezines to public about Hacking, Cracking, Radio, Social Engineering, etc. All things come to an end, and Phrack is no different: the last issue, #63, is accepting articles from the community now.”

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too bad really, it was a touchstone for quite a bit of info.