A Mac-Style Spercomputer: “Virginia Tech is tying 1,100 G5s together to achieve top-dollar performance for a relative bargain, a ringing endorsement for Apple's latest machine.” (BusinessWeek via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu] [Universal Rule] just goes to show you that people all around the world are noticing this move….

Symposium Gender & ICT: Strategies of Inclusion Research on the inter-relations between Gender and Information & Communication Technologies is dynamic, multidisciplinary, engaging and creative. In January 2003 the symposium 'Gender and ICT: Where are we at' was held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We aim to pursue the discussions begun there and therefore we are pleased […]

it is worth it, i picked it up on my way home tonight. it rocks in the way good things tend to rock, lovely. may his dreams and wishes be fulfilled.

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Computers & Writing 2004: Now taking submissions. Computers & Writing 2004 in Hawai'i, “Writing in Globalization: Currents, Waves, Tides” is now taking submissions. On a side note, I just downloaded Mozilla and am loving it! [Kairosnews – A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy] this looks like a cool conference

Opus to return. Opus to return as the Washington Post will announce a new Berke Breathed cartoon this Sunday. [vanderwal.net Off the Top] this is the best news in quite a while. support your local cartoonist, or at least your favorite ones!

Academic Hiring: An Ethical Dilemma. Joseph Duemer posts about an ethical dilemma in hiring: Your division hasn't hired a tenure-track line for four years & those hires were to replace someone who resigned & someone who was denied tenure; you have been making up the… [Invisible Adjunct] to me it seems that you have one […]

The Microsoft mental framework, i.e. The Microsoft 'box'. Study: Windows Can Be Cheaper to Use Than Linux: “SEATTLE (Reuters) – Developing Windows-based applications is easier and cheaper than making Linux (news – web sites)-based applications, according to a study paid for by Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT – news) and released on Monday.” “The study compared applications […]

The Chilean “socialist Internet” – circa 1972! When Pinochet's military overthrew the Chilean government 30 years ago, they discovered a revolutionary communication system, a 'socialist internet' connecting the whole country. Its creator? An eccentric scientist from Surrey, UK named Stafford Beer. This is a fascinating story. And yes, he really did link up Chile in […]

AAUP Issues Policy Statement on Contingent Appintments and the Academic Profession. Ten years ago, the Association reported that non-tenure-track appointments accounted for about 58 percent of all faculty positions in American higher education. As of 1998, such appointments still accounted for nearly three out of five faculty positions, in all types… [Invisible Adjunct] I'm not […]