Girls and boys, today's concept is transduction. Adrian Mackenzie, Transductions: Bodies and Machines at Speed. London: Continuum, 2002. Or see [Purse Lip Square Jaw] I've been meaning to read this for a few months now

States Line Up to Woo Biotech. The Biotechnology Industry Organization's annual meeting is drawing state and local representatives hungry for a piece of the action, although some folks at home say they aren't getting enough information before labs are built next door. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News] everyone wants a peice, no one gets any… […]

Fawlty Towers of Video Game Stores?. The Gord is the Basil Fawlty-like proprietor of a video game store in Canada. He appears to be a real-life Comic Book Guy. More inside … [MetaFilter] I must say that i spent about 3 hours on sunday reading this, some of it is a bit problematic, but much […]

defence description. Torill has posted a beautiful description of Lisbeth's defence, and Lisbeth describes it herself, too. There's even a video to watch of the actual diploma being handed over!… [jill/txt] and Torills account and the movie —- sounds nifty overall, but the movie is avi….. icky

so they are showing this at the university, channel 6, so i'm watching it down the hall from my office. updates airport extreme 804.11g standard ratified compliance with spec —- ipod 3rd generation ipod (i have the first) shipping 1 millionth ipod —- itunes 4 music store 8 weeks ago today 5million songs sold —- […]

THE U.S. SUPREME COURT today upheld the use of affirmative action in college admissions in two cases involving the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, but rejected the way Michigan actually carried out affirmative action in its undergraduate admissions policy. In a case involving Michigan's law school, the court upheld the admissions policy in a […]

American Traveler International Apology Shirt. I want one…. [Jeremy Zawodny's blog] i should get a couple of these, seeing as we have a tendency to elect idiots.

AIfIA is doing a follow up IA salary survey. Go now: Salaries and Benefits for Information Architects. [Poorbuthappy Guide to Ease] interesting enough, i also found boxes and arrows on their site

The Network is My Archive. For the past couple of weeks I've been pretty intensively engaged with my book, doing research and writing related to one particular electronic text that promulgated rapidly across the Internet in the early 1990s. I hope to post some of… [Matthew G. Kirschenbaum] this was just said on fibreculture too, […]

AO: software development goes abroad for good.. An Always On discussion thread. Hold on to your IDEs, American programers: the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming. And the Chinese. And the Indians. And the Irish. I wrote: If you can move work to the next building because of IM, email, file sharing, SCM, etc., […]