Historical Archives
Pennsylvania Voters Reject Tax Plan to Finance Schools – New York Times I worked the polls on Tuesday and heard many comments from people (especially older people) complain about the tax increase proposed to fund schools. The saddest thing is the income tax increase would have been offset much more significantly by a property tax…
Enjoy the weekend everyone and an early Happy Mother’s Day to all of you. I’m going to be away and occupied most of next week. When I get back, what do you all want to talk about? Leave me a note in the comments. Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen…
Where Harvard goes, others often follow. I wonder what this will mean for the ramping up of tenure requirements that has occurred at “teaching” schools. I’ll believe this when I see it, of course.Tags: education, harvard, teaching Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure
Although we’ve had many, many instances of people getting into trouble because of things they’ve posted online, we still haven’t figured out where, exactly, to draw the line. Three separate incidents in the last week have me thinking about the issue more closely. First, at my own institution, there was an incident involving a party…
Up until this academic year, I used to hold workshops every week. The topics ranged from the practical (burning dvds and cds) to the esoteric (the philosophy of open source software). At first, the sessions were well attended. At their peak, I had as many as 25 people attending. Most of the people coming to…
“Mr. Bush said his veto threat would apply to any measures that ‘allow taxpayer dollars to be used for the destruction of human life.’” And the war is funded how? And the soldiers who died? Are they aliens? Non-human? And the civilians who die every day in that war? Not human? Tags: iraq, abortion, bush…
I’ve posted an update on the hd-dvd code incident on my other blog and my thoughts about why educators (really, everyone) should be paying attention. Tags: dmca, hddvd, digg Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure
Remember what I said yesterday about content owners making it harder for people like me to circumvent copy protections and DRM in order to legally copy something for fair use purposes? Okay maybe you didn’t get that far. For those who don’t know, the new blu-ray and hd-dvd’s have stronger copy protection. The minute they…
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