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

The gender_cyber_archive: “

Anyone interested in feminist theory, particularly as it applies to technology, ought to peruse the gender_cyber_archive, unless you already have and I’m the last to find out about it. In the archive are written essays and audio lectures in .ram format. I’m especially interested in these:

• Joan W. Scott, Fictitious Unities: «Gender,» «East,» and «West»
• Donna J. Haraway, Alpha Bitches Online:the Dog Genome for the Next Genderation
• Anne Phillips, Feminist Politics: Facing the Future
• Susan Stanford Friedman, Locational Feminism: Gender, Cultural Geographies, and Geopolitical Literacy
• Angela Thomas and Valerie Walkerdine, Girls and Computer Games
• Maria Pini, Girls on Film: Video Diaries as ‘Auto-Ethnographies’

Cross-posted to CultureCat.

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(Via Kairosnews – A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy.)

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interesting… i should get this mirrored or something. it goes well with the feminist theory archive, which i’m moving to wiki this summer.

Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / How ‘Dungeons’ changed the world: “”

(Via .)

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imagination doesn’t solve all problems, but it does help.

The arbitrary and contingent cruelty of life: “Life is unfair. It is probably more unfair now than it has ever been, simply because some countries have been better at organizing their societies to produce more and better goods, and at stimulating their populations to act in more…”

(Via Paul Musgrave Dot Com.)

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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where very man is enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodious building; no instruments of moving, and removing, such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty brutish and short. Hobbes.

Two from the NYT:…: “Two from the NYT:

• Open Season on Others’ Ideas. Free riders have hit the jackpot in the digital revolution, and we’d better deal with it. By DANIEL AKST.

(Via A blog doesn’t need a clever name.)

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i only like this one.

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.

Pro-Life Group Applauds Peterson Conviction, Wants Abortion Outlawed: “We warned months ago that the “Laci and Connor Law” was a ploy by abortion foes. They are coming out of the shadows now. The American Life League has issued a press release on the Scott Peterson murder conviction: The…”

(Via TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime.)

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i hope everyone can see what the strategy is here. it is to establish precedent that gives an unborn child equal rights to a citizen. it is a greatly flawed, because the living have rights, the unborn do not.

Counterculture “Pirates” Who Fought Hitler?:
This came to me from Randy Tinkerman, who is currently hanging out in Germany:

Campaigning for Cologne’s Maligned Resistance

They wore their hair long, sang songs by banned Jewish composers and fought the Nazi regime. But history has so far remembered Cologne’s Edelweiss Pirates as criminals rather than resistance fighters…until now.

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the portrayal of the other… it carries through generations, not just at the point of initiation, not just as a matter of policy but as a matter of culture. this is one of the problems that i have with the way the media portrays the people we wage war against. these stereotypes will carry. this is obvious from the portrayal of the cologne resistance, these people may have been social problems for the regime, but it is not their actions that linger, but the portrayal of them as anti-regime pirates.

Moral Values I’d Like to Revive:

Clean Air and Water

Home Cooked Meals

Reading Out Loud

Minding Your Own Business

Humility

Spending Time Together With The Ones You Love

Growing Your Own

Taffy Pulls

Original Music

Family Doctors

Public Schooling

Rapid Transit

Poetry

Tree Climbing

Natural Breasts

Sex Without Advertising

Orgasms Without Explanations

Life Without Pharmaceuticals

Growing Old Gracefully

Modest Amounts

Giving Your Word

Lights at the End of Tunnels

What’s your list?…

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i would add anti-oppression, liberty, democracy, equality, shared social costs, care of the self, reading, writing, critical thought, patriotism over fascism/nationalism, the pursuit of knowledge, curiosity, experimentation, social justice, and likely some others that i can’t think of without coffee, which i’m going to get now.

oh and here is another…..

TOLERANCE

World Bank: Studies in E-Governemnt:
This website provides a large number of resources selected for those interested in promoting e-government in developing nations.

http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/egov/egovstudies.htm——

lots of interesting things here