Military Discounts. Veterans and military members: check out the new Discount Center Index! [Electric Venom] there are some great discounts here….

douglas adams in mp3. douglas adams mp3 audio archive … “The Douglas Adams media archive is presented here by the wi2600.org groups for your enjoyment. This allso is to serve as a tribute to Mr. Adams's great, but suddely shortened career. Those who have not heard his voice and those who know it well will […]

FOAF-a-matic — Describe yourself in RDF. I'll admit to not having paid a lot of attention to the 'Friend of a Friend' format to date, but a couple of things I've read recently made me pay a little more attention to this XML-based personal profile that can help connect you to others through the people you know. […]

Girls Gone Wild!. Like many of us, I enjoy the bad women, from your garden variety betrayed women to the problem girls, the untamed youth running wild. An all too brief gallery of documentary films about this fascinating subculture is up over at retrocrush. [MetaFilter] subcultures upon subcultures upon subcultures upon subcultures, are any of […]

Doc Saves the Net. Doc's Linx Journal article on saving the Net is setting new records for page views and comments. Jeez, all it does is tell the truth. I don't see what the fuss is about :)… [Joho the Blog] this is an important article

Knowledge game. Something I missed earlier [via Joy London] Knowledge game  by Dave Pollard This post contains The Knowledge Game, a tool you can use to educate yourself, or a group of business colleagues, about intellectual capital, innovation and knowledge management, and their importance for modern organizations. It's played as a game, with two to […]

Schools stay mum on file traders' names. Boston College and MIT are the first to contest subpoenas from the recording industry demanding information on alleged file swappers, but others may follow. [CNET News.com] [A blog doesn't need a clever name] this is the way it whould be.

Open-Source Development. HBS Working Knowledge has an interview with Siobh‡n O'Mahony who discusses her research on foundations formed around three projects: Debian, GNOME and Apache. Some excerpts: The hacker culture prizes autonomy and self-determination. Eric Raymond defines hackers as those who love programming for the sake of doing it, for the sake of obsessively solving […]

Grading Standards for Writing Assignments in an Online Course. In theory, living in the web world would lead to improved writing skills.  After all, most of the communication is done through e-mail, discussion boards, instant messaging, and chat. Most instructors of online courses point out that in many cases, just the opposite has occurred.  Instead […]

Good Experience: Top Sites' User Experience Teams and Their Challenge. Across all of those companies, the issues were strikingly similar. Despite the different business models – e-commerce, content, software development, search, etc. – team after team recited the same few issues that they are now trying to address. [Tomalak's Realm] this is an interesting site, […]