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So now I'm in Toronto, at the hilton. wee. No bank wanted to give me money until finally walked through the rain to the canadian trust where i finally found a machine that took my card, but it said i had no money too, strange…. well we'll see if i'm in the poor house or not.

New Directions in Humanities Computing (Film at 11). Complete streaming video (and a very nice presentation too) of a round table on “New Directions in Humanities Computing” from the 2002 ALLC/ACH conference in TŸbingen, Germany. Speakers include David Robey, L‡szl— Hunyadi, Thomas Rommel, John Dawson, Susan Hockey, Jean… [Matthew G. Kirschenbaum]

After Holzer. Jenny Holzer has been much discussed in the Scandinavian hypertext weblog cluster. [Mark Bernstein]

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I've been a fan of Holzer for a while. I have one of her truisms posted on my office door.

off to Toronto tomorrow at 10:00am i arrive at 2:30pm.

list of things to do:

house sitter is set
Video Camera is set
workshop presentation in sort of weak state, but workable
returning library book shortly
called Hooptie for an airport shuttle


now all i have to do is go home, clean up some more and pack and i'm ready!

Cyber Behavior Research Center. Cyber Behavior Research Center – Human Web interaction
http://www.cio.com/research/behavior/

Human behavior is an unquestionable component of Internet development. Existing ways that we act upon the world infiltrate and shape the Web while at the same time new ones are created. This research center attempts to explore the impact behavior has on shaping the Web and to detect novel behaviors that emerge as a result of this newer communications technology. The general guideline for inclusion of resources on these pages is information that explores the reciprocal relationship between behavior and the Web, not one or the other as separate entities. [Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker]

Tuition fees gain allure in cash-hit European campuses. Education: In a special report we find university administrators warming to charging students as governments cut grants. [Guardian Unlimited]

Back at Humboldt University, meanwhile, where the ghost of Karl Marx still hovers, students yesterday pondered what had happened to his legacy. “It's good for society for people to be educated,” Thomas Sieron, a 27-year-old historian, said: “Soon though education will just be for the rich.”

here calpundit shows that many planks of a typical republican platform are downright scary.

I Am A: Chaotic Good Human Fighter Ranger

Alignment:
Chaotic Good characters are independent types with a strong belief in the value of goodness. They have little use for governments and other forces of order, and will generally do their own things, without heed to such groups.

Race:
Humans are the 'average' race. They have the shortest life spans, and because of this, they tend to avoid the racial prejudices that other races are known for. They are also very curious and tend to live 'for the moment'.

Primary Class:
Fighters are the warriors. They use weapons to accomplish their goals. This isn't to say that they aren't intelligent, but that they do, in fact, believe that violence is frequently the answer.

Secondary Class:
Rangers are the defenders of nature and the elements. They are in tune with the Earth, and work to keep it safe and healthy.

Deity:
Tymora is the Chaotic Good goddess of luck and good fortune. She is also known as Lady Luck, and also Tyche's fair-tressed daughter. Followers of Tymora believe in the tenent that, 'Fortune Favors the Bold,' and will throw caution to the wind and trust to luck to work things out for the best. Tymora's symbol is an unmarked silver disk.

Find out What D&D Character Are You?, courtesy ofNeppyMan (e-mail)

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unsurprisingly i usually play a ranger or a bard, but i've not played in a while. usually i don't play human though, half-elf is more my type. but inarguably i almost always play chaotic good.

Your Homeland Security Dollars in Action. Dan Hughes of TheyBlinked points us to a story about his brother and his fiance. Here's the intro to the article: The love story of Trevor Hughes and his fiancee began in an elementary school in the Himalayan foothills. They were “global nomads.” He was a diplomat's son. She the daughter of missionaries. They lived in Asia, attended school together, fell in love and want to get married in June. But when Hughes' fiancee, a German national, tried to visit him on a six-month tourist visa Monday, she was detained in Atlanta, handcuffed, jailed—even stripped of her diamond engagement… [Joho the Blog]

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Well all is not well as usual, fiance comes to visit fiance, has the wrong color skin gets bureaucratically abused, etc. I should note that I don't think they should feel that this was particularly different from other experiences, it probably happens hundreds of times each day. nonetheless, it is not the sort of thing that should happen. One of the problems is that we've put highly problematic, and probably underskilled people, in positions of power and while they think they are operating appropriately and optimally they can only perform at their own capacity, which lends itself to situations like this.

Apple powers college supercomputer. A US college has been able to build a supercomputer by hooking up hundreds of Apple G5 computers. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

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news travels slow in this case, no. this is probably the last major note on the g5 supercomputer here at tech.