Interest in CS as a Major Drops: According to an analysis of results from a survey conducted by HERI/UCLA, the percentage of incoming undergraduates indicating that they would major in CS declined by over 60 percent between the Fall of 2000 and 2004, and is now 70 percent lower than its peak in the early […]

Early History of Wikipedia: Slashdot | The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir Slashdot | The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia, Part II jason thinks this is important…. unsurprisingly i played a minor part in some of this history and likely no one will remember. i made my arguments though, and know […]

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neocon quiz: it says that i’m a liberal… really, i’m a progressive, but this was as close as they’ve come. Liberal Liberals… Are wary of American arrogance and hypocrisy Trace much of today’s anti-American hatred to previous US foreign policies. Believe political solutions are inherently superior to military solutions Believe the US is morally bound […]

Out loud: nice bit of prose on reading out loud. I read all of my writing out loud at least once before it hits other people’s ears. It sounds different and otherwise when i read it out loud. I can tell where the differences between my thoughts and my ears are. What sounds like a […]

Deathbed Dollars: During the weeks preceding Terri Schiavo’s death, a number of radical right wing Christian fundamentalist groups stepped up to take full advantage of what the Traditional Values Coalition’s (TVC) Rev. Lou Sheldon characterized as a “blessing…to the conservative Christian movement in America.” Established organizations like the TVC, relative newcomers like RightMarch.com, and newly […]

Mesa police want to add monkey to SWAT team: The monkey weighs only three to eight pounds, has tiny humanlike hands and puzzle-solving skills. Police say it would be able to get into places no officer or robot could go and could unlock doors, search buildings and find suicide victims on command. ————- cool.

Bill Frist’s religious war: Frist has an even bigger game in mind than the current nominees: the next appointments to the Supreme Court, which the Republican conservatives view as their best chance to outlaw abortion and impose their moral code on the country. yep, i warned you.

BAY AREA / Computer crashes booming business / Geeks find steady supply of vexed users who need house calls: What grabs him, Bennett said, is the interaction between these devices and people. The technology, to him, is a riddle. If others can’t figure it out — and the big computer companies aren’t making it easier, […]