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

Creative Technology programs and transparency in academia. Geoffrey Rockwell made up a very cool “Creative Technology Curriculum”. I'd have loved to get a degree in that if it had been available when I got into college!

Geoffrey also points to a fascinating (if you're interested in the dynamics of academia) document in which the Faculty of Information Studies of the University of Toronto attempts to redefine itself. As Geoffrey writes,

In the paper the dean, Briank Cantwell Smith raises questions about
what is the subject of information studies (we all study information.)
He argues for an issues oriented, interdisciplinary centre that looks
at documentary practices and performances.

What is exciting about the process is that it is open (I can look at
it) and openness is also one of the issues (as in Open Source as an
issue.)

Perhaps what we need is a clear philosophy of open source research as a practice.

[Seb's Open Research]

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two interesting documents from seb today, well worth thinking about. the first is somewhat like the software arts degree, the latter is somewhat interestingly about the reformation of a major information school.

the roanoke times is reporting that units from the 1/116th infantry will be activated and added to the the 3rd battalian in its activation. This is the storied stonewall Brigade, the spearhead of the d-day assault, some parts of which haven't been activated since WWII. Back in the day, I served in one of those units, though it looks like my old unit isn't being activated. They are all good soldiers, I'm sure they'll do fine.

The Ivy-Covered Console. Following on the heels of last week's AP news article about game studies is a new NYTimes article that interviews several researchers, including Grand Text Auto's own Nick Montfort. New to grandtextauto? Our URL managed to make it into the… [grandtextauto.org]

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and to think that all i had was a lousy one line quote in circuits last year:( anyway, this is a great introductory piece for a growing field.

More proof satire is becoming impossible to do

In case you missed this:

Education Secretary Rod Paige called the National Education Association a “terrorist organization”

[Politics in the Zeros]

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yes, this is pretty much how the bush administration sees everything that doesn't go their way…. it is like electing a bunch of three year olds. mine mine mine mine , my way, my way, my way, etc. etc.

Top 10 Rules of Debugging. In the comments to a Very Serious discussion of debugging at Slashdot, appear the Top 10 Rules of Debugging: 10. Code is always Beta. It’s never done until it’s no longer in use or support no longer exists. 9. The better the SDK, the more sophisticated the bugs. 8. There’s always more bugs in the other guy’s (girl’s) code. 7. Declaring code bug-free is asking for it to fail at the worst possible time with the greatest visibility. 6. A good design is as likely to have bugs as a bad one. Bugs are equal opportunity. 5. Debugging time is inversely proportional to coding time. 4. If it works the first time, there’s a bug, but you won’t find it until you roll it out. 3. Debugging is fun. Really! It’s when you run out of bugs that you should wonder if you got them all, that’s not fun. 2. The most difficult bugs to find are in the most straightforward looking code. 1. That’s not a bug, that’s a feature…. [Discourse.net]

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everything is beta, unless it is alpha, nothing is really gold except gold and then you shouldn't drop it on your foot.

Paul Bevan is blogging. He's written some great papers and has interesting ideas on cybergeographies in relation to humans in time and space.

YOU ARE RULE 8(a)!

You are Rule 8, the most laid back of all the
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. While your
forefather in the Federal Rules may have been a
stickler for details and particularity, you
have clearly rebelled by being pleasant and
easy-going. Rule 8 only requires that a
plaintiff provide a short and plain statement
of a claim on which a court can grant relief.
While there is much to be lauded in your
approach, your good nature sometimes gets you
in trouble, and you often have to rely on your
good friend, Rule 56, to bail you out.

Which Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Are You?
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Who Says People Suck?. A couple of guys in Minneapolis may have had one of the finest ideas of all time: Today a coworker of mine had a thought to send flowers to a random couple waiting in line at SF city hall. He called a florist and they agreed to do it. He… [Planned Obsolescence]

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doing the right thing, that's what the net is for….

this blog will have much less going on until i finish some writing that i need to finish and this will take a few months, so we should consider this some sort of intermittent hiatus. which along with all kinds of conceptual apparatus that we deal with every day, makes no sense, but then again it makes quite a bit of sense……

i'm away:) will be back