Call for Papers Semantic Web Technologies for Searching and Retrieving Scientific Data Monday, October 20, 2003 Sundial Resort, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/projects/scisw2003/cfp.htm A workshop in conjunction with The Second International Semantic Web Conference Submission of papers: July 18, 2003 Notification of acceptance: August 22, 2003 Submission of camera-ready version: September 19, 2003 Workshop: October […]

An Unintended Lesson?. Let's hope these statistics don't translate into attitudes toward marriage. One in three employees start looking for a new job on their first day at work, according to research. Half of 1,000 people surveyed said they were loyal to their career rather than their employer and almost as many did not expect […]

Special Issue of Post Identity: Submissions Due ASAP. This call for papers comes by way of Purse Lip Square Jaw: The theme for our Winter 2003 special issue is “Identifying New Media.” We are looking for submissions that theorize how new media forms (DVDs; e-books; Internet blogs, digital archives, interactive gaming; etc.) are changing cultural […]

Willie Nelson Supports Dennis Kucinich. Dennis Kucinich has picked up some welcome support from country music singer Willie Nelson: “I am endorsing Dennis Kucinich for… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime] well, you see, this is a better reason than most to support a candidate. when the red headed stranger says someone is worth the time, […]

in general i consider myself a progressive, so it is not too surprising that my top 10 turned out like this : Your Results: 1.Ê Green Party Candidate ÊÊ(100%)Ê 2.Ê Gephardt, Cong. Dick, MO – Democrat ÊÊ(90%)Ê 3.Ê Edwards, Senator John, NC – Democrat ÊÊ(90%)Ê 4.Ê Kucinich, Cong. Dennis, OH – Democrat ÊÊ(87%)ÊÊ 5.Ê Dean, […]

The Cost of War “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” President Dwight D. EisenhowerApril 16, 1953 The Cost Of War.com precisely details those thefts.   [Politics in the […]

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Happy Belated Birthday to Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg's 32nd Birthday “July 4th marks the 32nd anniversary of that day in 1971 when Michael Hart first sped an all-caps version of the Declaration of Independence to anyone and everyone then on what later became the web, thus founding Project Gutenberg. Thanks to an army of volunteers […]

Call for Webtexts: Kairos CoverWeb 9.1. Call for Webtexts: Kairos CoverWeb 9.1 The Rhetoric and Pedagogy of Portable Technologies Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy, an online, peer-reviewed journal, is seeking submissions for the Spring 2004 CoverWeb issue on Rhetoric and Pedagogy of Portable Technologies. Including technology in our lives and our classrooms used to mean being […]

GIA. Watch the watchers. Government Information Awareness:A single, comprehensive, easy-to-use repository of information on individuals, organizations, and corporations related to the government of the United States of America. [MetaFilter] interesting project.