Category — other research

How programming languages have warped my writing: “How programming languages have warped my writing: “Because of HyperTalk, I am never sure how to spell highlight. I always want to spell it ‘hilite’.Because of AppleScript, I always want to write ‘thru’ instead of ‘through’.Because of Java, I’m inclined to write ‘Cristina+Liberty’ instead of ‘Cristina and Liberty’.Because of perl,…”

(Via Inspirational Technology.)

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this is a perfect example of so many affects of programming skills. just the social governance implicit in this little bit more or less shows, if it is true, that my dissertations thesis is correct….. of course, i have other evidence.

White House Officials: It’s Condi Rice: “White House officials are telling Fox News that Bush has decided on Condi Rice to replace Colin Powell as Secretary of State….”

(Via TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime.)

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talk about your major bad news………..

OA to “the DNA of literature”: ”

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(Via Open Access News.)

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this is great! we need more things like this….

Top scientist asks: is life all just a dream?: “Rees, Royal Society professor of astronomy at Cambridge University, will say that it is now possible to conceive of computers so powerful that they could build an entire virtual universe.”

(Via Gyre.org.)

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this is just fascinating isn’t it?

EA Faces Class-Action Overtime Suit News Story From 1UP.com: “”

(Via .)

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sometimes….. you have to sue for economic justic.

How It Works…The Computer:
http://davidguy.brinkster.net/computer/003.html

some people need to know what computers are….

Ten Theses on the Multitude and Post-Fordist…:

Ten Theses on the Multitude and Post-Fordist Capitalism [Virno]

Paul Virno gives us 10 theses…. not quite 99 theses…. but it is a start.

Theo Van Gogh’s “Submission” on IFILM:Xeni Jardin:
David Benjamin from ifilm.com says, “We have a copy of Theo Van Gogh’s short film, Submission on our site. This is the film that inspired a Muslim man to kill him.”Link
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hmmm, interesting composition, too bad he was killed….

eLearning Reviews: research on elearning – reviewed for you:
http://www.elearning-reviews.org/

interesting and handy.

Read the NSA’s OS X Security Guide:
This flew across slashdot a couple days ago, but I don’t see it here. NSA (the USA’s National Security Agency) has posted the ‘Apple Mac OS X v10.3.x “Panther” Security Configuration Guide’ [3.1MB PDF] on their site. Here’s t…

interesting bit of work to resecure a fairly secure os.