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

Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: I CAN HATH CHEEZBURGER?:
Until next tyme, gentils alle, may you hath ur cheezburgers, and ich praye God and Seynt Anthonie the Abbot that ye maye alle fynde ur buckets.

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hilarious.

Please join us in a workshop on learning and research in Second Life on October 17, 2007 in Vancouver at Internet Research 8.0 (http:// wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=About_IR8.0)

Paper Deadline August 15th.

Second Life(R) is a 3d virtual environment created by Linden Lab which has captured the attentions of researchers and teachers from around the world from a variety of disciplines.

This workshop aims to improve the understanding of Second Life as a Learning and Research environment. It will bring 35 researchers together to collaborate, discuss and workshop diverse topics related to research and learning in Second Life. We will pursue a full-day schedule in which participants will discuss their work and interests on four different topics: learning in Second Life, integrated learning, the contributions of research to the community and ethical research methods. How can we better enable learning in this sphere? How can we better enable research?

As a highlight, Robin Linden will give a talk to the group, and members of Linden Lab will participate throughout the day.

We encourage researchers to submit papers and short biography to slworkshop@tmttlt.com which will be selected and distributed amongst participants before the workshop. First invitations will be offered to those who provide full papers for consideration.

These papers have two purposes: first is to provide a common platform for understanding our research and teaching and second submitted papers may be considered for publication in an edited volume being produced in relation to the workshop, or possibly in peer reviewed publication derived from the workshop (these are currently under discussion).

Subsequent invitation will be made based upon research/teaching statement and biography. If you are interested in participating, please send an email containing your information to slworkshop@tmttlt.com.

Decisions will be made by September 1st, barring incident. There is a limit of 35 participants at the physical meeting; the event will be simulcast into Second Life.

We welcome professionals, faculty and graduate students to participate.

This workshop is sponsored by Linden Lab creators of Second Life and is organized by Jeremy Hunsinger and Aleks Krotoski. Free lunch, coffee breaks and the room is included in participation.

Man Arrested After Telling Women They Were ‘Extremely Beautiful’ – News Story – KMGH Denver:
He told each woman in two separate incidents that they were extremely beautiful and that they should consider modeling.

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america is the land of the free….

MilkandCookies -

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Panda Prison Break

Eurozine – Citizenship as a learning process – Gerard Delanty Disciplinary citizenship versus cultural citizenship:
In the dominant liberal discourse on citizenship, learning processes have tended to be reduced to citizenship classes and formal membership of the polity

In Your ‘puter, Stealin’ Your P0rn::
Consumerist rigs up auto screencast-recording on their PC to catch the Geek Squad copying files from it when they sent it in for service.

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hmmm very problematic. people trust geeksquad i bet…

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At Freedocumentaries.org, you can stream interesting and provacative documentary films for free!

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cool free documentaries via streaming.

I went to the bronx zoo yesterday, took a few pics.

Marcus taking a picture of a sign

red panda or firefox

red panda or firefox again

tiger (keep in mind there are more pictures of all of these)

parrot hiding and watching people

monkey playing with toy

and about 200 more.

oh and i shot some movie stuff, short, very short…

snow leopard

polar bear

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States

BBC NEWS | Technology | Net growth prompts privacy update:
A consensus has emerged on the need to promote closer co-operation among privacy law enforcement authorities to help them exchange information and carry out investigations with their foreign counterparts,” read the recommendations.

recommendations here:

OECD Recommendation on Cross-border Co-operation in the Enforcement of Laws Protecting Privacy
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any bets on whether the U.S. complies with any of these recommendations

Vernaculars for Knowledge:
I have a whole epistemological vernacular. It is my own argot, but many of the key terms I use are highly loaded and have became a sort of theoretical shorthand. Even as I write this, which was to be an explanation for a new category in my blog “epistemological vernaculars”, I’ve realised that each of my key terms could easily become a brief essay in their own right! Anyway, one facet (that’s one of my shorthand theoretical terms, so stay tuned) of the writing and thinking I’ve been doing around material thought is that in material thinking we each develop our own vernaculars.

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Adrian points to an idea that i always run into… my own theoretical shorthand. it is not a private language, but it is not as explained as it should be.