Category — General

Genius for hire:
So you’ve been looking and looking for a job and not getting hired. You’ve started to wonder if it’s the way you look or–horrors!–smell.

Take heart.

Clearly the problem is that you are just too darned intelligent for your own good.

World’s cleverest woman can’t find a job
….Bulgarian Daniela Simidchieva, a mother of three, has five Masters Degrees and an IQ of almost 200. She’s listed by the country’s Mensa office as the world’s cleverest but despite sending off hundreds of applications she still hasn’t found a job. Her IQ is the same as that of chemist Marie Curie who was the first person to win the Noble Prize twice but cannot even get a cleaning job….

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i spectulate that there might be other issues involved than intelligence in this case…..

More Reasons to Shop With Cash:
Shopping with credit cards is more likely to land you in a database. Sounds to us like it’s time to revert to cash. [link via Kevin Drum}…

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more and more, i’m thinking this is my direction, cash and carry.

Italian university rectors sign Berlin Declaration:

VDARE.com: 11/05/04 – An Election That Will Live In Infamy:
http://www.vdare.com/roberts/041105_infamy.htm

sure they are conservative…. but at least they know right from wrong…..

Academia resources:

Paul W. Schleck has collected a fine list of resources about academia generally and grad school in particular, including quite a few things I hadn’t seen before. Worth checking out.

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dorothea points to some interesting notes on academia… i like the argument on how and why universities and others create the idea of the labor shortage in science and engineering.

Protech Extreme Bag:
Ultra-lightweigth waterproof sleeping bag

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yes…. this could be handy.

Cmte. on Gov’t Info Recommends Use of Uniform Resource Name:

“Making Web data permanent – Uniform Resource Names can help users find government data no matter where it’s moved online,

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isnt’ this what digital object identifiers are supposed to do? /be?

ameeting:

Self?

Yes.

Self?

Yes.

Self?

Yes.

Then we are all in attendance.

Today’s agenda, to determine the future of Miz Elouise Oyzon. The goal is to have specific action items by the end of the meeting. Each you of you will participate.

One of the weezes is looking out the window at the moving clouds, thinking about baking bread and drinking chocolate.

Another is fondly remembering touch.

Yet another is hoping the vanilla girl will come back, regretting how she had dismissed her so summarily.

I close the book.
There will be no decisions today.

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i’m just happy she knows it.

Technology in the Academy…:
[This is from Liz Lawley] Many-to-Many: fear and loathing in the academy Last month, I moderated a workshop on “social software in the academy” at USC’s Annenberg Center for Communication. The attendees were primarily Annenberg faculty and graduate students, along…

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but… i think we really have to think about the broader scope of this. sure there are universities that are tightly controlled and they may seek to stop certain technological uses, and they may in fact be obligated to stop some things in some interpretations, but overall, i don’t think one finds this occurring often, or outside of the normal traditions of a university. because of that, i think j’s response on this on liz’s blog is insightful.

FTC, NIST to Host Email Authentication Summit:
The Federal Trade Commission and the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will co-host a two-day “summit” November 9-10, 200

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i wonder…. is anyone going to be there beyond the powers that be?

will there be community representation or?