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Brokenated terribilityToday's sophisticated search technologies still can't "capture the implicit value that humans inherently place on information and relationships." Until they do, the idea of practical knowledge management is still a dream: you can't manage what you can't measure. With the popularity of blogging, and the ubiquitous expectation that even the smallest company--or individual artist, for that matter--should have a own web site, it seems Microsoft and other browser developers are missing an opportunity: why are browser-based authoring tools so awful? It's the brokenated terribility of writing in browsers. I'd heard and loved Radiohead's acoustic version of "Creep", but hadn't seen this fabulous animated video accompaniment. Requires Flash, sound and possibly a hanky if the song speaks to your once-broken heart. Flipsock friend Andrew recommends the Flash music vid of Cows With Guns and notes that "you have to see the original Honda ad before you can appreciate the parody." If you don't like the looks of the leading US presidential candidate, give Dubya a makeover. When you map the timing of public events in the USA, it becomes obvious that a dip in Bush's ratings is usually followed by a new terrorism alert--and a consequent rise in approval ratings. Hmm. (via BoingBoing) We celebrated Little Johnny's birthday with piece of cake: "Jannette made it in the shape of a Deputy Sheriff's badge!" 6 August 2004 | top of page Zen of train
via matt jones | 28 July 2004 | top of page In which we discover......that (a) there's an academic magazine called "International Journal of Osteoarchaeology" and (2) medieval monks were overweight. ...that an Eliza programmed for sex chat can pass the Turing test of artificial intelligence. ...the Internet was not designed to carry the load of so much parental pride. 28 July 2004 | top of page Watching you chew it overWatch a man make chewing-gum sculpture, without his hands (requires Quicktime), then enjoy chewy portraits. From the same site, World of Wonder, here's a new word to enjoy: diablogue. via BoingBoing | 28 July 2004 | top of page Watching you pitilesslyHome improvement, Baghdad-style. What's next, the Baghdad Block? 28 July 2004 | top of page Watching you tirelesslyInformation privacy laws are important. Before you hand over yet another bit of data about yourself to a company or government agency, think about where it could lead... Do you really want a health warning with your pizza? (requires Flash) 28 July 2004 | top of page Watching you wirelesslyBristol's new 3 km2 StreetNet wireless network "will provide ‘always-on’ access to the internet and email and allow for council and city workers to access private networks (VPNs) whilst doing their job on the city streets. Critically, it can also provide wireless connectivity for CCTV, allowing very low cost mobility of cameras for deployment around street events and general security surveillance." 27 July 2004 | top of page Exhibition: What Big Eyes You HaveArtist Vanessa Sowerwine wants to know: are you afraid of the dark? What Big Eyes You Have is an interactive and painting installation consisting of large graphic paintings from a little girl's nightmares, and a wooden box. Peer into the box and wind the crank to see the shadow monsters come to life in the little girl's bedroom.
27 July 2004 | top of page .edu"While at college I yearned to feel connected, to be a part of something larger, something that involved more than bricks and mortarboards... Those bright college years are so influential, so much a part of who we become, that revisiting them brings up a host of conflicting, tumultuous emotions... It's easier to return to the past when you are happy with the present." A colleague calls Kim Lanegran the "scourge of student plagiarists," a reputation of which she's proud. This year she had to defend her own academic work from a plagiarist, a man who stole her PhD research and claimed her thesis as his own. Despite the hurt, and the potential for professional damage, Lanegran hasn't lost faith in the notion of making academic papers and writing freely available. The Queensland auditor-general criticised two universities for spending too much on farewells for their vice-chancellors. Two more Queensland VCs are due to leave at the end of the year. The ratio of university students to academics has increased by at least 30 per cent in every state and territory, according to the AVCC. Edith Cowan University's Robyn Quin thinks the higher student-staff ratios could contribute to higher first-year dropout rates. The federal education minister has released a list of universities that enrolled too many students this year. The later an election is called, the more likely that 25 per cent HECS increases will become a reality for students entering university in 2005, regardless of whether Labor wins the plebiscite. Increasingly, individuals are bearing the financial cost of an education in our public universities. The government still argues that students contribute only a little more than one-quarter of their course costs, though consultants Phillips Curran say the amount students contributed to university coffers through HECS and fees rose from 23.6 per cent in 1995 to 37.2 per cent in 2001. The Phillips Curran report also says the minimum cost of entry to the public higher education system in Australia is high by international standards. 26 and 28 July 2004 | top of page Queen of the chessboardThe powerful queen of the chessboard may have acquired her freedom and authority in the Middle Ages, following the example of real-life women like Isabella I of Spain. "In the south, a woman could inherit land and titles, could become the countess and run the county. In the north, it was more likely that the court would find someone for a woman to marry, someone to be in charge," says Boston University historian Clifford R Backman. 26 July 2004 | top of page |
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