Category — General

I met my partner in crime online about 4 years ago through a colleague and we’ve been dating for some time now, so i asked and she said yes.

TED | Talks | Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do (video):
5 dangerous things you should let your kids do
—

more than 5, but all worthwhile.

Noahpad to take on Eee market:

Even though the Asus Eee is making quite a splash into the laptop marketplace, I’m not certain whether to classify it as a laptop or UMPC. However, there is a new kid in laptop/UMPC market that could give some healthy competition to the Eee.

—

another cool minipc or umpc.

Donate old memory cards and batteries to a needy school:
At the budget-crunched Brooklyn public high school where I teach VJ-U (the art of live visual performance), batteries and memory cards for the school’s cameras are in very short supply. Recently I dug up my older, smaller memory cards and donated them to the school. If you have a spare SD or xD memory card or a pack of AA batteries you could donate, it would help these very talented, ambitious students to develop their skills and ability to express themselves through photos and video. You can send them directly to the school at:

Urban Assembly School of Music and Art
Attn: Diana Hernandez
49 Flatbush Avenue Extension Fl 8
Brooklyn, NY 11201

—-

this seems like a great idea. my stuff is in chicago.

this blog was born on the 28th of december…. that day is 3 days past. heh

News | 12/24/07 U.S.’s first Carnegie Library in jeopardy :
Despite efforts by a wide range of supporters — including two Coweta County organizations — the future of the nation’s first Carnegie library looks bleak.

—-

this is just a sad statement on the provision of public services through libraries. ‘we want better, but we will forgo what we have’. Downsizing the library is a bad move, it should instead be endowed by local businesses.

Does morality affect economic performance? Empirical evidence | vox – Research-based policy analysis and commentary from Europe’s leading economists:
But perhaps the most important question of all concerns the policy implications of these findings. What policy instruments are more appropriate to an environment with adverse cultural traits, and which policy interventions ought to be avoided? Does political decentralisation facilitate the acquisition of favourable values, and is self-government something that can be learnt through experience? And what can be done to facilitate this collective learning process? The promotion of economic development would become much easier if we could answer these questions.
—-

what actually is the implications of this research? is it anything different than political theory has said and empirically founded in tens of hundreds of examples, narratives, and other evidence?

Academic Commons special issue on Cyberinfrastructure and the Liberal Arts (December 02007):
Edited by David L. Green and dedicated to the memory of the remarkable digital and radical historian Roy Rosenzweig (1950-2007), the December 02007 issue of Academic Commons brings together a series of papers on Cyberinfrastructure and the Liberal Arts.
Source: DIGLIB mailing list, 02007 12 17
—

some good articles.

Open meaning:
This all started for me when Jeremy
—-

I think Pa^2 might be pointing more toward detraditionalization as a system of delegitimation or loss of our grounding narratives. People are generalizably cynical, in that they do not accept that the groundings of meaning and truth are unbound from their system of expectation of politics, ethics, and social norms.

www.tmttlt.com – Top 100 Prolific Bloggers:
—-

well i suppose.. i think i’m technically almost at 5000 or 6000 posts now, but who knows.