Category — General

Blog for Choice:
Today is Blog for Choice day, and the good folks sponsoring the event have asked us bloggers to write about why we’re pro-choice. It’s a terrific idea, and I expect the intertubes will be flooded today with excellent posts listing all the reasons to support women’s reproductive freedom.
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The ability to determine what goes on in ones own body, with ones own body… the control of ones own body is a basic and fundamental human right. that means fundamentally that the woman’s right to her body, will always supersede the rights of the fetus that exists within her. end of story.

LiveScience.com: The Most Popular Myths in Science Results:
1. Chickens can live without a head

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how about….. that their opinion matters?

With Everybody Protecting The Kids, Who Protects The Adults?:
There are a lot of fingers being pointed at the likes of MySpace as politicians look to score points by “protecting the children” from their evils. But who’s protecting the adults? A story out of Buffalo, New York, paints a rather bizarre tale of an online love triangle gone bad. Apparently a 47-year-old man in the area was posing online as an 18-year-old Marine, and had some sort of relationship stretching over a year or two with what he thought was an 18-year-old woman. She turned out to be a 40-something lady from West Virginia.
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why should anyone save anyone?

think:lab: “The Future of Learning” Manifesto:
“The Future of Learning” Manifesto

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Well the first issue of learning inquiry is entitled Futures of Learning… it should be out in april… so this seems interesting to me…

How the Body Shapes the Way We Think:
“How the Body Shapes the Way We Think – A New View of Intelligence”
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ummm did someone miss the whole of phenomenology? it looks that way….

AlterNet: The Radical Christian Right Is Built on Suburban Despair:
Millions of Americans live trapped in soulless exurbs which lack any kind of community, leaving them feeling isolated and vulnerable. Without alternatives for their social despair, they flock to demagogues promising revenge and a mythical utopia.

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the problem is…. that this is probably true…

Blinded by Science: The Real Reason We Can’t Find bin Laden – – science news articles online technology magazine articles Blinded by Science: The Real Reason We Can’t Find bin Laden:
uncap my pen this morning in defense of a fellow American, one who finds himself rather up against it at the moment. I speak of our president, George W. Bush. The midterm elections give evidence that he has paid a dear political price for what one might term the nation’s stiffening conviction that the man couldn’t president his way out of the kind of frail, blood-caked paper bag that they are fond of submitting to infrared analysis on A&E’s Cold Case Files. But among the various fiascos laid legitimately at the brocaded cowboy boots of our nuance-eschewing commander in chief, there is one for which he is unfairly blamed: the failure to find Osama bin Laden.

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where is waldo? in the mountains… we think… or perhaps not.

Learning Librarians Network:
Learning Librarians Network
An Educational Social Networking Service for
Library and Information School Students

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part of what i’m using to teach courses this semester. it is an elgg install.

Adultery could mean life | Battle Creek Enquirer – www.battlecreekenquirer.com – Battle Creek, Mich.:
In a ruling sure to make philandering spouses squirm, Michigan’s second-highest court says that anyone involved in an extramarital fling can be prosecuted for first-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony punishable by up to life in prison.

“We cannot help but question whether the Legislature actually intended the result we reach here today,” Judge William Murphy wrote in November for a unanimous Court of Appeals panel, “but we are curtailed by the language of the statute from reaching any other conclusion.”

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so… while adultery is wrong… is it worth life in prison?

Tinderbox ☙ Yojimbo: Wow!:
It’s nice to surprise a reporter.

Merlin Mann was interviewing Patrick Woolsey, COO of BareBones, on the floor at MacWorld Expo (video here) for MacBreak. They’re talking about Yojimbo, which Patrick calls “a digital junk drawer — a place to store all that stuff that, otherwise, is going to accumulate on your desktop.”

About half way through, Woolsey mentioned that Yojimbo now comes with each copy of Tinderbox.
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I like tinderbox… i’ve crashed yohimbo…. went back to devonthink pro….