All those topics that i wish i had time to pursue more earnestly.

Ananova – Beerbelly is a big success :
Beerbelly is a big success
The Beerbelly – a secret strap-on beer holder that disguises itself as a bulging beer belly – is being marketed in the US.
It was the brainchild of three middle-aged men who wanted a way of sneaking beer into movies and baseball games.

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you never know…..

TheStar.com – Jane Jacobs, 89: Urban legend:
Jane Jacobs was a writer, intellectual, analyst, ethicist and moral thinker, activist, self-made economist, and a fearless critic of inflexible authority.
Mrs. Jacobs died this morning in Toronto. She was 89.
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She wrote one of the classics of all social science, the life and death of great american cities.

Show Details for Billy Bragg: 2006-03-26:
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World Book and Copyright Day – April 23, 2006:
World Book and Copyright Day – April 23, 2006 – By celebrating this Day throughout the world, UNESCO seeks to promote reading, publishing and the protection of intellectual property through copyright
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celebrate….

crooked timber / crooked timbers project: i’m confused:
via CRTNET, i learned about the crooked timbers project, “a group of communication educators, researchers and practitioners committed to fostering a ’social constructionist’ understanding of communication as the primary process for creating and sustaining better social worlds.”

great. i’m all for projects! and i’m all for scholars and practitioners coming together to share knowledge! and i’m
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over on his blog i responded with Isaiah Berlin… people will reject that. Berlin is of course citing “Out of the Crooked Timber of Humanity, no straight thing can ever be made”….. which is from Kant

Kant also gives us some other nice insights here and there….

like:

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

and

To be is to do.

and

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Field & Stream – You Call This a Wetland?:
The Bush Administration announced last week that the nation is no longer losing wetlands–as long as you consider golf course water hazards to be wetlands.

Really.
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the environment is just a resource to this administration, it has no status beyond that.

Small children rated most malicious creatures in the world, study says – Pravda.Ru:

You got it wrong if you thought we were going to talk about tigers, lions, wolves, alligators, or sharks. It is really hard to guess who is the most malicious and cruelest of all species.

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no news here….

Nuclear Bunker Buster (RNEP) Animation:

The Nuclear Bunker Buster
Robust Nuclear Earth Pentrator

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you have to wonder where our government gets its ideas. this seems right out of the 60’s, any non-moron can see what the UCS says is a likely and even highly probably prediction of events. So…. Why?

Main Page – WikiNotes:

Wealth of Networks WikiNotes
Welcome to the Wealth of Networks WikiNotes.
This Wiki is an invitation to collaborate on building a learning and research environment based on Yochai Benkler’s book, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom.

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I like the purpose of this wiki of the book. it is a great collaborative reconstruction project.