Googlitical. Go to Google, type in “Weapons of Mass Destruction,” click I'm Feeling Lucky and see The Result. [MetaFilter] heh heard about it this morning, its nifty.

The nation's largest intelligence agency by budget and in control of all U.S. spy satellites, NRO is talking openly with the U.S. Air Force Space Command about actively denying the use of space for intelligence purposes to any other nation at any time÷not just adversaries, but even longtime allies, according to NRO director Peter Teets. […]

Secret Santa terrorism. Ottawa Citizen: One of the CIA's secrets — a classified report about a plot by the “Ebenezer Scrooge” terrorist group to attack Santa Claus and his reindeer — has finally been revealed after almost 30 years. Researchers who recently uncovered the report say the joke memo warning about a potential terror attack […]

BOFH and The Engineer. Episode 13 Call out beyond sense of duty [The Register] new bofh, mmmm, bofh, goooood

TexTales: designed to support mobile public discourse. Over at the MIT Media Lab is an interesting paper (pdf) entitled Constructing Public Discourse with Ethnographic/SMS ãTextsä. [Smart Mobs] this is an interesting text.

McCloud's Micropayments are Here. … and where am I? Yes, Scott McCloud has completed a “mature” new comic called The Right Number, and placed a smidgen of it online for free. The rest can be bought for $0.25 (after you buy a $3 debit… [grandtextauto] well someone has to experiment with this, i think scholarly […]

Prerequisites. As she promised, Naomi has written a list of prerequisites for graduate school in the humanities. Though couched in positive terms, her list is far closer to my Straight Talk in content than Naomi would probably want to admit. That’s fine. The more people saying these things, and the more… [Caveat Lector] for those […]

Teaching Philosophy Statement. I really need to do a good teaching philosophy statement that I can stand by, publish on the Web, and be proud of. I was poking around my hard drive trying to find a statement that I wrote years ago while at the University of Tennessee, but I could only find this […]

autounfocus: Stanford CourseWork Released. Quote: “Charles Kerns wrote to say that Stanford has officially released their open source course management system, CourseWork. The system looks to do everything most people would want out of the box, and “ Comment: A little struggle to find the actual code, but here it is. [Serious Instructional Technology] hmm, […]