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

Today, on the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we are asking pro-choice bloggers to join us for Blog for Choice Day!

Blog for Choice Day provides us with an opportunity to raise the profile of reproductive rights in the blogosphere and the media, while celebrating Roe’s 35th anniversary. Plus, it’s a great way to let your readers and the mainstream media know that a woman’s right to choose is a core progressive value that must be protected.

[From Blog for Choice Day 2008]

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For me, women have a right to their bodies, have a right to make decisions about their own lives, what people should know, and what communities have involvement in. The Right to Choose, and it is a right, is a right to one’s own body, the right to religious freedom, the right to privacy. It is a fundamental and basic liberty, and a basic construction of equality of the sexes. Without the right to choose, we are basically making women into a different class of people, a class divided on gender and reproduction and a class that is subservient to the master that is the state/husband acting in the interests of the unborn which until born in my view, has no rights outside the rights the bearer gives it. The movement to take away and/or subvert the rights and equalities of women through the operationalization and politicization of the rights of the ‘not alive’ to me is clearly wrong for a liberal society.

5 Things You Didn’t Know Your Wireless Router Can Do

[From 5 Things You Didn’t Know Your Wireless Router Can Do at DygiScape]

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some handy info.

Simple Spark

is a website that lists over 7000 different web apps and web 2.0 apps.

Imagine you have 100 hands for holding publications and 50 heads to read and process all that information. You would be able to recall quite some bit. Unfortunately, one does not have so many heads..

[From Aigaion - A web-based bibliography system]

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another interesting bibliography management system

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This is the referencetool system that I made years ago and is still publicly usable. it is just an install of wikindx3 with some customizations.

Carmun – Social Networking for Writing School Papers:
The cheeky YouTube video that explains Carmun describes the service as “Wikipedia meets Facebook”. But essentially its a social network for people who have to write term papers. There’s lots of tools for asking peers questions, managing bibliographies, and some del.icio.us-esque tools for saving online sources.

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Looks like a tool that composition classes might be interested in developing.

Access : : Nature:
The use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by both ill and healthy individuals raises ethical questions that should not be ignored, argue Barbara Sahakian and Sharon Morein-Zamir.
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this makes me wonder…. if we buy into Ken Robinson’s argument about reproduction, which is loosely parallel to bourdieu…. what are we now reproducing in the minds of students?

I find the whole thing a bit disturbing.

Ever wonder what makes Lisp so powerful?
Now you can find out for yourself-

72 words

Touch Typing

Has E.T. Made A Call? – News Story – KTVU San Francisco:
Across the globe, researchers searching for signs of life in space were abuzz this week with word that a mystery signal has been picked up by a giant radio-telescope in Puerto Rico.
Now the dilemma is — how do you answer it?

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I say you answer it with a simple series… 11 1111 11111111, etc. simple messages are easy to detect.