US plans hypersonic bomber. American scientists plan to build a hypersonic aircraft which could strike anywhere in the world within two hours. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] so this is what they are doing, hmm, scary….. its our world or no world, boom, your dead

50 centuries of history mapped out. [Poorbuthappy Guide to Ease] i want one of these. this would make be perfect for explaining things to students.

1602. “[T]he whole Marvel Universe is starting to occur 500 years early … Sir Nicholas Fury is head of the Queen's Intelligence, Dr Stephen Strange is her court physician (and magician), the Inquisition is torturing “witchbreed” … and now a mysterious treasure — which may be a weapon of some kind — is being sent […]

here is a super rough draft of what i was going to write for the blogosphere call, but realized, thankfully before I submitted it that I would never have time to write this, given that I'm supposed to be working on other things, but is worth thinking about nonetheless, so I'll share it. !–this is […]

If you can't tell, I'm avoiding grading, though I am slowly getting finished. grading is the worst part of teaching, if i didn't have to grade i'd love it much more. so our grades for summer session 1 have to be in tomorrow, while second summer session in which I'm teaching my political economy of […]

The presentations from the conference, Death of th …. The presentations from the conference, Death of the Book? Challenges and Opportunities for Scholarly Publishing (Sydney, March 7-8, 2003), are now online. [FOS News] I was supposed to go to this with Leveraging the E-everyday life of Academia, but in the end, the budget crisis prevented […]

Nice one.. Impressed by the Bush administration's much-ballyhooed establishment of a national do-not-call registry for telemarketers? Longtime software developer Jeffrey Kay points… [Electrolite] so there is no protection or security built into the system, who says that the government is supposed to protect and serve its citizens?

All GOP, All the Time. Interesting words via the “Skeptical Notion” blog about the US moving to a one-party system. I would say, judging by the last 4-5 years, we already have become a one-party system. It's been the story of our lives recently – monopoly, homoginization, assault on plurality and elimination of free competition. […]

Digital “Shoplifting”?. Young Japanese women might spot a new hairstyle or a new dress in a glossy fashion magazine and want to know what their friends think,so they take a quick snap with their mobile phone camera and send everybody a picture.But the Japanese Magazine Publishers Association says the practice is “information theft” and it […]