They Think Its All Over. It looks like this flashmob thing is just about over. The penultimate one has been held in New York …. [iWire] yes, it probably is 'over' as in 'no longer cool' but it is somewhat interesting.

The Real Getaway Tour. The Getaway is a game for the PS2 set in a realistically modelled representation of London. You'd have to be really bored to go and find all the locations in the game and re-create the missions for real, wouldn't you? [MetaFilter] ok, granted, i don't like the getaway, it was a […]

May you rest in peace mazeone. Mike Lea aka mazeone on #joiito took his own life on Friday. He worked at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. He recently started hanging out on #joiito and was a pretty active participant in our community. I think he spent more time on #unixpunx. The #unixpunx site says that […]

Psst, wanna get a deal on software? Educational versions of software sell at greatly reduced prices. They are exactly the same as the commercial versions! You're supposed to be a student to qualify for buying them, however gray market educational versions of software are freely available at many computer shows, no questions asked. The savings can […]

A public service announcement. Attention data archivists… CD-R's go bad. A dutch study indicates that most CD-Recordable discs become virtually unreadable 20 months after being written. [MetaFilter] this is good to know

20, 000 Leagues Under. Iâm going to make a Jules Verne prediction for the future. In the next 10 to 15 years, many of the mid-level colleges are going close and reopen as cyber schools. The University of Phoenix has been very successful at… [Invisible Adjunct] I am not that optimistic, i don't see them […]

Ted Agres, The Costs of Commercializing Academic R …. Ted Agres, The Costs of Commercializing Academic Research, TheScientist, August 25, 2003. Excerpts: “The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, which allows US universities and research institutes to patent and commercialize discoveries financed with federal funds, may inadvertently hinder scientific research and impede innovation, scientists and legal experts […]

The Network is the Market. Tribe.net is a Craig's List meets Friendster style Social Networking Service that is just coming out of beta. What's different is the explicit transactional nature of the network, emphasis on tribal organization tools and how it relies on social capital… [Ross Mayfield's Weblog] so here is my thought on social […]

Yale Workers Plan Strike for the Opening of a New Semester. Thousands of Yale undergraduates will arrive on campus only to be greeted by an unwelcome but all-too-familiar sight: the ninth labor walkout at Yale in 35 years. By Steven Greenhouse. [New York Times: Education] [A blog doesn't need a clever name] I personally think […]

Wikitravel. Wikitravel.org is a new collaboratively developed world-wide-travel-guide.  A wonderful use of wiki technology, inspired by Wikipedia. Check out Itineraries such as One Month in Southeast Asia which is a great example of the strength of a wiki structure.  Will be interesting to see if pages that start as copies of the CIA World Factbooks, such […]