Bagpuss: Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss Old fat furry catpuss Wake up and look at this thing that I bring Wake up, be bright, be golden and light Bagpuss, oh hear what I sing ———— are they bringing bagpuss back?

Thomas L. Friedman: The sliding dollar: “Given the number of people who have refinanced their homes with floating-rate mortgages, the falling dollar is a kind of sword of Damocles, getting closer and closer to their heads,” Rothkopf said. “And with any kind of sudden market disruption – caused by anything from a terror attack to […]

Having winter fun like snowbody’s business.: The problem is that in my discipline students often expect the coursework to be easy, the content be ‘common sense,’ particularly in the lower level classes. I always get a lot of students who take this sort of class their senior year hoping it will be an easy filler […]

Library Journal – Revenge of the Blog People!: Who are the Blog People? It is obvious that the Blog People read what they want to read rather than what is in front of them and judge me to be wrong on the basis of what they think rather than what I actually wrote. Given the […]

Bunny suicides: hehehehe

Crooked Timber: Time Out of Joint : Academia is for losers. It’s like dungeons and dragons with doctoral degrees. “You know that shit’s not real, right?” ———– heh…..

Our Godless Constitution: It is hard to believe that George Bush has ever read the works of George Orwell, but he seems, somehow, to have grasped a few Orwellian precepts. The lesson the President has learned best–and certainly the one that has been the most useful to him–is the axiom that if you repeat a […]

: Among the appointees to the department’s 20 member “Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee” is D. Reed Freeman, the “chief privacy officer” of Claria Corporation. http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/02/23/gator/index.html?source=RSS

Weblogg-ed – The Read/Write Web in the Classroom : : i’m just glad i don’t have a weblog.

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