well i was thinking that a university should establish with the NSF or otherwise a center for Innovative Applications of Computation and Networks in the Social Sciences. This would possibly even include humanities, etc. The goal would be to explore and develop new ways of using computers and networks in the Social Sciences, try modeling […]

there are many people who seem to think Virginia and with it Virginia Tech are out of the woods, well i have to tell you, i agree with this editorial, and think that it is going to get worse before it gets better. i want a responsible forward looking government that isn't afraid of doing […]

well this news strikes me hard, even though i knew it was coming. he was just one of those people that tried to do right by telling the stories of other people, and thus he let you know in a deep manner that not all was right with the world. The world will miss him. […]

this article is a clear condemnation of the Republican anti-science anti-education agenda, why is anti-science implied anti-education, because you can't teach science if you don't know and support science, because what you end up teaching is decidedly not knowledge, but closer to ideology in disguised as science. This is not just a scientific problem, but […]

ICSTM 2004: Transforming Organizations to Achieve Sustainable Success Venue: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Date: Wednesday 19th May 2004 to Friday 21st May 2004 Paper Deadline:Wednesday 1st October 2003 Topics of Interest:Electronic Learning,Social Issues Further Information:See conference web site at http://www.icstm.org/

kindly don't think you are poor: here faculty generally make over $30000, some make much much more, some a bit less, depending on a variety of things, but still that makes them richer than 96% of the world minimally. graduate students on stipend, figure tuition and a few hundred a month comes to $20k, well […]

that talk like a pirate day is next friday, yes next friday, this rare opportunity to talk like a pirate all day long only comes through once each year and thus should be savored for its pure formal ritualized delite.

I'd like to read all of the papers/presentations at this conference Risks of Knowledge and its Application Conflicts Between Designing Power and Value Fixation of Applied Science General Knowledge and Specific Forms of Application all topics that are highly relevant

The Man, The Donkey, The Toolbox. Divine architecture or crafty workmanship? Mysterious guy shows up on a donkey to make a spiral staircase for the Loretto Chapel that defies structural possibility. Made mainly of wood, it contains no support beams and uses only wood pegs to hold it together. [MetaFilter] well there are these little […]

This is a list, growing throughout today probably, of books and other material that are central to my dissertation. I'll put them in some sort of categorical separation and i'll keep adding to it throughout today. Science and Technology Studies: Latour and Woolgar: Laboratory Life Latour: Science in Action Tuomi: Networks of Innovation Winner: The […]