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Gender Relations in Educational Applications of Technology. A not quite new, but interesting collection of material on gender, education and technology from a group of students: GREAT: Gender Relations in Educational Applications of Technology Welcome to our special issue of GREAT, a publication on Gender Relations in… [GENDER & COMPUTING]

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some people might find these resources useful….

How Bush Got Into the National Guard. Former Texas Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes, in a speech, says that as Speaker of the House, he got George Bush in the National Guard as a favor to a privileged kid He expresses remorse. Watch the video here. [link via... [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

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well now we know don't we. wealth and priviledge. sons die in war, as do daughters, but not the ones that can buy their way out.

Depraved Delinquents Launch Discussion Board [Interactivist Info Exchange]

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if you give up the streets, the police won't let you have them back.

my advice…. even if the school doesn't require the gre, the department does. we get so many calls from students saying, but the school doesn't require it, to which we respond, but the department does.

past that…. letters, get your letters underway now or asap, ask your writers to write them soon, send them a reminder after thanksgiving and a thank you note after the new year.

past that, most appllications are online, if you can do it online, do it online. it allows less bias into the system.

finally, don't get organized, just get it done, do one a week, get it done.

nice article with some succinct quotes about power and language. i made this argument in a women's rights forum recently….. they ignored it. but you can't let someone else frame or define the terms of debate.

Max Cleland Turned Away from Crawford Ranch. Former Senator and Vietnam War Veteran Max Cleland went to Crawford today to deliver a letter from 9 Senators to President Bush asking him to condemn the Swift Boat Vets ad. He was turned away and left, still holding the… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

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just what is the president scared of? apparently disabled veterans….

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DHS Secretary Ridge Gives the Go Ahead to Linux. 24 Aug 2004: “Like many government contractors, the provider of ERN (Emergency Response Network) Systems maintains a low profile. When you ask the CEO, Jo Balderas, for references she politely says, “the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Public Safety and the Department of Homeland Security”. That's quite an impressive list, and it represents only a few of the company's clients. When you ask for a technology snapshot Jo says, “currently we use an enterprise open-source software stack k [RootPrompt -- Nothing but Unix]

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well, it is better than nothing…..

fertile women are useless. Just a quick link to Torill Mortensen's sigh for today, about the lack of women even in “soft” areas like media, and the use of temporary contracts and freelancing to avoid the fearful fertility of women…. [misbehaving.net]

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well, if you read this, it goes onto show how in certain fields there is an explicity bias toward hiring women full time when there is still an expectation of motherhood…. society should account for motherhood (and fatherhood) but not like this. but then, i don't think it should account for them by implicitly requiring different things from people who aren't.