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This week:
FridayThe Imperial War Museum in London is hosting a D-Day reunion. Given the age of most WWII veterans, this year is likely to be the last of the 'big' 10-year commemmoration-reunions of this group. Amnesty International's 2004 report is available online. The scariest password in the world: type in a few zeroes and start World War 3. (thanks, Fraser) What *really* happened in the Taiwanese presidential election? A candidate was shot, and the party that started with a thumping lead was narrowly defeated in the final vote. Many say it was the bookies whodunit. Universities regularly enrol too many first-year students, partly in response to community and government pressure to provide mass education and partly in anticipation that some students will drop out at the end of the year. Every frew months another academic complains that a full-fee-paying student was given special treatment, usually in the form of more lenient assessment. The federal Minister for Education grossly underestimated the amount of HECS students will have to repay under his funding reforms. In America, where fee-paying students are the norm, the real winners appear to be the banks that make a great deal of money from student loans. The University of Southern Queensland is restructuring, looking for management and other efficiencies. 4 June 2004 | top of page AmbitionThe graduation speech we all needed to hear:
via Jeffrey Veen | 1 June 2004 | top of page Design eye for the usability guyFive fab fellows give Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox a lifestyle makeover. Have a look at the other entries in the Reuseit competition to see how many different styles can suit a single web site to varying degrees--and they're pretty much all clear improvements on the original Useit.com Alertbox. Bonus: learn from Real Audio--don't rebuff your customers. 1 June 2004 | top of page Misc MondayLooking forward to two forthcoming events at the NGV:
(thanks, Jonathan) Great job titles (continued): NASA historian. Why cities need science and jazz. The Cluetrain Manifesto, five years later. JK Rowling likes the idea of Harry Potter fanfic, as long as it's suitable for kids to read. The British government plans strict guidelines to define "safe haggis". Blessed are the place-makers. Let the children first be killed. The murderer shall surely be put together. Printers have persecuted me without a cause. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jeffrey Eugenides, Academy Award-nominated director Todd Haynes, independent film producer Christine Vachon, "Ice Storm" author Rick Moody and pop-science writer Steven Johnson all graduated from Brown University's course in semiotics. What does it all mean? Flash animations of Ukiyoe prints. Select from the menu on the right. (via BoingBoing.net and Geisha Asobi) 31 May 2004 | top of page New Zealand, home of the pink dinosaurThe White Island volcano crater has but one visible inhabitant, a pink dinosaur. According to the NZ GeoNet Project, the volcano is currently at alert level 1. thanks, Warren | 28 May 2004 | top of page |
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