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

Run away the ray-gun is coming : We test US army’s new secret weapon | the Daily Mail:
This machine has the ability to inflict limitless, unbearable pain.

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this is not OK, this is not OK at all. this is at best a device to dispurse crowds, and at worse a torture device. it is a device of unlimited potential as a torture device. unlimited, unbearable pain? that is just wrong.

Spikning – Wikipedia, den fria encyklopedin:
Spikning är en akademisk ritual i samband med framläggandet av en doktorsavhandling. Tre veckor före disputationen skall avhandlingen offentliggöras, från denna tidpunkt skall lärosätet tillhandahålla avhandlingen så att den som önskar kan läsa den för att kunna komma med kritik under disputationen.

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a brilliant way of making your doctoral work public from Torill

TED | Speakers | Andrew Mwenda:
Andrew Mwenda: Journalist

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Intentions are usually problematic… people act under good intentions at all times.

Even GWB thought he was doing the right thing, remember that, good intentions are not always the best thing. Mr. Mwenda speaks about the problem of foreign aid and the problem of structural motivation and economics. I think he nails the african situation on the head. I like his example of if you have 10 ph.d.’s they will never be as effective as an entrepreneur in the market. I’m not sure that’s true, but I think it is closer to true than not.

Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections — Koninklijke Bibliotheek:
This database contains descriptions of all medieval western manuscripts written in Latin script and produced up to c. 1550 now preserved in public and semi-public collections in the Netherlands. These include the collections of libraries, museums and archives, as well as the collections of monastic orders and some other private institutions that are open to researchers.

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this is really handy for a wide variety of scholars. it has quite a few things by erasmus, which is one of those people that i like to read.

Humtalks: Smart people on cool topics:

this site has humanities talk, there are also business, politics and science. free online videos…

Mission to Learn: OER – Open Educational Resources:
OER – Open Educational Resources

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oer introduction.

History of social media:

Devo Plays Satisfaction on Saturday Night Live (1978):
Here’s a great video of Devo performing “Satisfaction” on Saturday Night Live on October 14th, 1978, with host Fred Willard doing the introduction.
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saturday evening devo.

The argument against Creative Commons is apparently that the poster of the picture of the teenage girl was not adequately informed that he could be impinging on the rights of others based on the information provided by creative commons.

Larry and Joi both comment on the suit but neither can comment on its merits given their respective positions. What they both bring up is the question as to whether Creative Commons should address questions of privacy. This comes up in this current case because the poster to Flickr posted allowing commercial usage, much like I do (and I had my first commercial use last week).

I don’t think that CC needs to head down that road. What they do need to say is that their work only applies in the realm of property and copyrightable materials. I think any judge worth their salt will see that immediately. Rights of the subject of photography are not really dealt with under this license and other laws cover those rights.

So my argument is that the CC license only covers some of the rights involved in photography, that it is clear about that, and any other rights or responsibilities of the photographer and his or her subject are not implied under the license. I suspect this suit will be dismissed on that basis, but we’ll see. I expect that the suit against flickr will go a bit farther.

here is a picture of the commercial use of the image, note the ‘virgin’ trademark plays a significant part as almost a double entendre. Thanks to Jonl for this link.

following pa^2

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well i guess that’s pretty true.