Category — General

FBI targets universities in new scheme to recruit informers:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation recently paid visits to a number of universities in New England as part of an effort to enlist faculty, students and staff in informing for the national police agency. The bureau’s rationale for its campus initiative is the danger posed by foreign spies and terrorists stealing sensitive research. It provides briefings on what it calls “espionage indicators” supposedly aimed at protecting the data in question.

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hmmm, very good, new england is certainly where the majority of terrorists would be. or or… canada!

Core ICT Indicators:
This report provides definitions, model questions and methodological notes relevant to the core indicators agreed at the February 2005 meeting. By making this information available to a wide audience, in particular in developing countries, it is hoped to be of use to countries developing their statistical data collection programmes on the information society.

http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/partnership/material/CoreICTIndicators.pdf

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this could be handy.

“Smells Like Teen Spirit”:

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best cover in ages

Teachers not staying in the profession, report finds:
To stem the flow, districts must first determine the annual turnover rate and then focus on hiring well-prepared teachers who have a clear understanding of content, curriculum and how to manage a classroom, Carroll said.

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and carroll would be wrong. to stem the flow, we must address the lack of respect and trust that we put in teaching professionals, we need to ensure that they have a solid middle class lifestyle, can be happy teaching, and aren’t working 14 hour days.

ICT Security Standards Roadmap (Version 2.0 May 2007):
ICT Security Standards Roadmap

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interesting to see this from itu.

53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without | Smashing Magazine:

some of these are handy

Encyclopaedia Introduction:
an encyclopaedia of semiotics

Education: Many Colleges Reject Women at Higher Rates Than for Men – US News and World Report:
Where girls face the biggest challenge is at small liberal arts colleges, like the University of Richmond and Kenyon College in Ohio. An op-ed entitled “To All the Girls I’ve Rejected,” published in the New York Times last year, set the college admissions world atwitter when it outlined the reality of what most officers had been seeing for years. “The fat acceptance envelope is simply more elusive for today’s accomplished young women,” wrote Jennifer Delahunty Britz, the dean of admissions at Kenyon, which, according to the U.S. News data, is not even among the schools that most heavily favor boys in their admissions process.

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this is what i would call demonstrably unfair. women should be treated as pure equals. the sole basis of this policy is the separation of men from women and generalized opinion that they aren’t equal. they should get past their puritanical single-sex dorms and build equal facilities and separate people not by floor or building, but by room.

Intellectual Property Watch » Negotiators Agree To Add Access To Knowledge To WIPO Mandate:
World Intellectual Property Organization members negotiating development-related proposals for WIPO’s future mandate reached preliminary agreement on several more key issues Thursday, including access to knowledge and exceptions and limitations.
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well that’s a plus. now they’ll gut the concept.

Kids Domain Crafts – Ice Cream in a Bag:
Ice Cream in a Bag

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it’s science!