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

35 today. still mostly feel like i’m 19 more or less, so that’s something, but alas, i have much more work to do than i have time to accomplish, such is life.

News from hatebook’s aspirations of world domination — hatebook:
Hatebook is an anti-social utility that connects you with the people YOU HATE.

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Luckily… i don’t hate anyone. some people i prefer not to be around, but other than that. My greatest foes are really those people who promote overdetermination and underdetermination.

Well the Learning and research in Second Life workshop was by all current reports a resounding success. We had a full room in real life and a significant group of people in second life at Kula. We have some photos on flickr that are tagged, and some others that are note are in the Internet Research 8.0
tags. Linden Lab and Joi Ito sponsored the event that Aleks and I put together. John Lester/Pathfinder Linden gave our keynote and participated in the workshop. The goal of the workshop was to develop community and to increase the quality of scholarship. I think we have easily accomplished the former, and the latter will develop over time.

Isto Huvila’s blog

Making the Grade

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How do you grow a bumper crop of math and science teachers?

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you don’t… you inspire children to learn the science.

Caravan Books Home:
The Caravan Project, funded by the MacArthur Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, is an innovative partnership of non-profit publishers, booksellers and libraries

Together, we help bring serious non-fiction, in traditional as well as a variety of digital
formats, to the eyes and ears of discerning readers.

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This looks like a great project. It provides non-fiction books to the digital world.

Report: The future of scholarly communication: building the infastructure for cyberscholarship:
The future of scholarly communication: building the infastructure for cyberscholarship link

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From craigbellamy.net

Top 10 Bizarre Mental Disorders – The List Universe:
Top 10 Bizarre Mental Disorders

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this has two that inform my work which are jerusalem and steyndahl syndrome. the others are worth considering, such as paris syndrom.

Omeka :

The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) is partnering with the Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) to develop Omeka as a next-generation web publishing platform for museums, historical societies, scholars, collectors, and educators.
Omeka is currently in private beta. If you are interested in getting on the invitation list to download and test Omeka, please email us and we will notify you when there are additional spaces for this testing period.

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Omeka is what we use for april16archive.org at the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture

How to pay for a free press, by André Schiffrin:
How to pay for a free press

In a media world with one eye on the bottom line and the other on the official line, it’s getting harder to publish or broadcast anything that doesn’t promise huge sales and attendant profits, and that doesn’t say or show what is approved. But it’s still possible

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perhaps it is time to start a universal trust to support the free press?

Brain-computer interface for Second Life ::: Pink Tentacle:
Brain-computer interface for Second Life

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this is novel, i wonder what else they can control.