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HAW HAW. To quote Homer Simpson, “It's funny because it's true.” How to Write Like a Wanker Thanks to my husband for… [Inside Gretchen's Head]

ha ha ha ha ha

RIAA Comes to Its Senses. I.e., RIAA Is Hacked Again?. The RIAA site has been hacked at least twice recently. But is this page a hack? It announces a new policy for the RIAA that sounds like it was written by the EFF: Dropping copy protection, dropping lawsuits against file-sharing neworks. .. Way too good to be true. And the fact that we can't tell if it's truth or a parody indicates just how absurd the RIAA's position has been. (Thanks to Seth Johnson for the pointer.)… [Joho the Blog]

isn't there some beach boy lyrics 'wouldn't it be nice”

News.Com: A life in bits and bytes. Q&A with Gordon Bell. Jim and I wrote an article on the 50-year outlook for computing, and that's when we realized that the amount of storage was so vast that we in principle could capture everything–everything you read, every picture you've ever taken, everything you've said. [Tomalak's Realm]

anytime you can cite vannevar bush, you have a plus…

NEA at work.

Marc Center: Proposal for Open Media Management Servers.

[The Doc Searls Weblog]
another one of those things that i do

Where the Girls Aren't. Computer science has become the new math — boys only. Is it nature or conditioning? By Karen Stabiner. [New York Times: Technology]

hmmm, why? have you ever tought of the model they teach from…. who it appeals to?

Beyond the Blackboard. No more eraser clapping. Today's “slates” are chalk-free and interactive. By Michel Marriott. [New York Times: Technology]

these are handy, but i'm not sure whether they change much

sure they are for kids, in theory, but whwo doesn't really want a t-rex mouse.

Dear Philosopher. “Dear Heidegger: What came first, the chicken or the egg?” “Dear Hobbes: What causes women to wear white pumps?” Answers and advice from these and other great philosophers, from h2so4.
[MetaFilter]

this is great stuff, and h2so4 has an utne award, yeah utne

More on Media2Go.

There's more info and a photo available of that new Media2Go personal video player designed by Microsoft and Intel. The Media2Go can store up to 175 hours of VHS-quality video, and has a battery life of six hours, and runs on the Windows CE .NET operating system.
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[Gizmodo]

mmm hmmm, but will it run linux…

When You Collectively Bargain, You Bargain With Bin Laden. Plastic::Work::Travel: The Transportation Security Agency has announced that airport security workers cannot unionize. Does the TSA deserve this power, or is Bush just trying to break organized labor? [Plastic: Most Recent]

mmm, yup, but driving an suv and not participating in american activities is worse. isn't it? i mean come on… bureaucrats like this should not be involved in labor control, it is unamerican.