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

Introduction to the Gumstix tiny linux computer. 10 Mar 2004: Rich Gibson reviews the Gumstix tiny linux computer.”The Gumstix computer (also see Gumstix.org) is a tiny 200 or 400 Mhz single board computer based on the Intel XScale processors. with Linux Kernel 2.6.0 in flash ram. They have 64 mb of RAM. You can get your Gumstix as a tiny little board, or a 'full fledged' computer.” [RootPrompt.org -- Nothing but Unix]

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oooo, i wants one, gimme gimme…. dunno what for though….

sometimes it is difficult not to assign subjectivity to nature….

The ignorance society. Today I submitted a column in which I discussed the so-called 'information society' or 'knowledge society'. Perhaps we are not building a knowledge society at all, and instead are moving from 'data society' towards 'ignorance society'. Those who decide what kind of society we live in the future are more interested in the behaviour of computers than the behaviour of people. At least this seems often to be the case in Finland. [Universal Rule]

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the information society isn't a knowledge society, it is a control society ala deleuze and others. the knowledge society can be an enlightened society if it isn't heavily capitalized, then too it turns to a control society. and in a control society you construct technologies of control that create and define the roles of haves and have nots for the informational and knowledge elites.

Questions Raised About Ashcroft's Fundraising. by TChris Did John Ashcoft tell a fib to the Federal Election Commission? By renting out a political mailing list,… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

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it seems he is fine with law breaking when it is him breaking the laws. the whole bush administration seems to have an 'above the law' vibe to it… but this is particularly ironic.

virii is not a 'proper' plural of virus, which is apparently viruses…. which sound icky to me, to use another improper word….

apparently the u.s. had a man prosecuted for throwing snowballs at our embassy in norway.

Susan Moller Okin.

edited personal report from ct

An obituary will appear in tomorrow’s edition of the Stanford Report. Here is the press release:

Susan Moller Okin died of unknown causes last week at the age of 57. Okin was Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society and professor of Political Science at Stanford University. At the time of her death she was on leave with a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

[Crooked Timber]

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oh, this is too bad, her book was interesting, we read it in my graduate class on the principles of justice…..

Pure Freedom. Like Josh Chafetz I scored a mere 21 out of a possible 160 on the Libertarian Purity Test. I might have gone a bit higher if some of the questions had been better specified. For instance one question asks, “Would… [Matthew Yglesias]

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i scored a 32…..

31-50 points: Your libertarian credentials are obvious. Doubtlessly you will become more extreme as time goes on.

Today is International Women's Day. “The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of this freedom was bought for them at a great price. It is for them to show their gratitude by helping onward the reforms of their own times, by spreading the light of freedom and of truth still wider. The debt that each generation owes to the past it must pay to the future.”

–Abigail Scott Duniway, suffrage organiser [Purse Lip Square Jaw]

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International Women's Day…. A day worth nothing.

and now they want the woman to pay them for the merchandise they illegally bought. why can't the police just go in and seize the merchandise and btw they should audit the company for past occurances of this. how much do you want to bet they've been selling stolen stuff before? i wouldn't bet much…

this calls for action, i suggest a general boycott of electronic boutique .