Category — General

This is a nice essay/article that explains to some extent what might be going on in the relationship between software patents and investing. I think overall it might be extended by other people, but as it stands it fits quite well into the Braudel-De Landa Anti-Market conceptionality of patents.

this looks like it will be an interesting course..

syllabus is here
http://stage.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~amt3/mt/archives/000007.html

On August 23 the Public Knowledge Project released …. On August 23 the Public Knowledge Project released version 1.1.5 of Open Journal Systems, its open-source software for journal management. This upgrade lets editors choose among different management models and gives them more control over the Research Support Tool, which accompanies each published article. For more details, see the web site or press release. [Open Access News]

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while i built one of these journal systems three years ago or so, i never had time to keep it up and develop it appropriately, so recently i switched to this tool. it works well, … well better than mine.

Steam Trek. Steam Trek – an enterprising individual has masterfully melded two classic SF genres, Star Trek and Steampunk. The result is a wonderful universe with a rich history where Her Majesty's Aether Ships explore the solar system and protect the United Kingdom of Planets. Long live Queen Victoria, and may her glorious reign continue as it has for the past 165 years! (preserved by Lunar Selenite technology captured from the evil Moon-dwellers). [MetaFilter]

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now if someone just made it into a mmorg…..

The Best Sandwich. The BBC Is Looking For The Best Sandwich In The World: Can you help? Sandwiches are supposedly easy but, come to think of it, perfect sandwiches are actually quite difficult to invent and produce. Bread gets wet; lettuce wilts; flavours and textures clash. Personally, I like English tea sandwiches best; though the Mediterranean versions are a meal in themselves. But if you had to stake your life and reputation on one fulfilling and tastebud-enticing sandwich, which one would it be? To go. [MetaFilter]

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everyone knows it is the classic pennsylvania hoagie, not the knock off hoagies either, but the ones that you scoop the bread out, layer deep with meat and cheese, lettuce and tomato, with a swab of mayo.

ESPN Reminder – Rush Starts Sunday. As he NFL season gets underway (yawn) just a reminder that ESPN is now an employer of Rush Limbaugh for their Sunday NFL Countdown show which premieres this Sunday. Make your own judgement about what to do. Me? I'm not… [Eat Your Vegetables]

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at least until they get rid of their right wing bias.

More on Structural Changes. Tim Oren, a VC, in California: Eating the Valley's seed corn, describes some of the structural changes in engineering staffing.

For the startups that I deal with, the idea of having a chunk of the engineering overseas is already routine. If we see a plan with engineering in India, China or … [Onto Something Good]

academic job hunting is like hunting season for turkeys, only you are given a blindfold, a slingshot, and a turkey call, you can guess the outcome.

The new cartography. Social borders have their own sort of cartographies.- David Harvey, Justice, Nature & the Geography of Distance, 1996, p. 282…. [Blog de Halavais]

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I think this is somewhat the same idea as Georg Simmel had in his book on metropolitan life. It is a classic insight and one that I've found very useful in many discussions.

Latest news on World Summit on the Information Society.

The latest E-Flash relating to the upcoming World Summit on the Information Society (organized by the ITU) is available with links to WSIS documents for the upcoming Third Meeting of the Preparatory Committee for WSIS (PrepCom3), Geneva 15 – 26 September 2003. This meeting will attempt to finalize the working documents for the Summit which includes the draft Declaration of Principles and the revised Action Plan. 

The inventor of the worldwide web, Tim Berners-Lee, will participate in The Role of Science in the Information Society conference which will be held in conjunction with WSIS on 8-9 December.

[ITU Strategy and Policy Unit Newslog]