Campus Cutbacks Hit the Classroom. Many public universities have reluctantly begun chopping away at academics, making it harder for students to graduate on time. By Greg Winter. [New York Times: Education] i will say that i think that there may be much more politics involved in some of these occurances than perhaps should be. nonetheless […]

Former Dot-Commers Are Adjusting, Painfully. Chapter 2 of the Great Dot-Com Bust has begun, the part in which former employees of start-ups try to re-acclimate to the corporate world. By Claudia H. Deutsch. [New York Times: Technology] this article has several levels to consider, but most dishearteningly the core seems to be “don't encourage a […]

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College Rankings!. College Rankings! Seems like everyone's talking about 'em. There's the good ole controversial US News & World Report rankings, but thanks to the the librarians at UIUC, this wonderful site has links to many, many, many different rankings, including ones that let you make your own rankings. There's also rankings of some of […]

Study: Open source produces best results. I found the following link/article buried in my e-mail. It is a bit old, nevertheless the argument still stands. Study: Open source produces best results “A consulting group that scrutinizes the source code underlying several operating systems has found that a key networking component of Linux is of higher […]

Globalisation and Falling Inequality. The Economist discusses a lecture by Stanley Fischer (ex-MIT,IMF and now with Citigroup) and summarises that “if you consider people, not countries, global inequality is falling rapidly.” One of the reasons: “Two of the poorest countries in the world÷China and India÷have both (a) enormous populations and (b) rapid growth in incomes […]

Nachi, the 'benevolent' worm has so far been responsible for shutting down a railroad and a hospital among other institutions. Please tell me no one is running a nuclear power plant on Windows… What? They are? [www.gulker.com – words and pictures from Silicon Valley] yes, well, a few nuclear plants, an aircraft carrier or two; […]

August 22, 2003. Raymond Chen has been running a series of interesting articles about the history of Windows and its API. Ever wonder why the time zone map no longer highlights the zone you're in? Or what the BEAR35, BUNNY73, and PIGLET12 functions are named after? Or why you turn off your computer by clicking […]

Random Proposals for Communications Courses. Theory.org.uk has an interesting course description generator. Keep clicking “Next” for more. This might come in handy now that it's syllabus time! 😉 [CultureCat: Rhetoric and Feminism –] this is funny, but somehow seemingly almost and surely on occasion true, take any set of things jam them together and voila.

On 13.-15. Octobre 2004 the project C2 Between Online-Religion and Religion-Online: constellations of the transfer of rituals in the medium internet of the collaborative research centre Dynamics of Rituals at the University of Heidelberg (http://www.ritualdynamik.uni-hd.de/) arranges the international research meeting Online-Religions and Rituals-Online? The research meeting will deal with the topic of religion on the […]