BOFH cops a virus. Episode 10 Bring the tranquiliser gun [The Register] new bofh, woo hooo!

Gaming as a Solution for Computer Science Woes. The New York Times ran an article this past week that discussed the changing times for computer majors. The boom of the 90's ended in a bust, and further layoffs and dim forecasts by the technology industry have caused many students to reconsider the profitability of a […]

behind the razzle dazzle. That the debate over the higher education institutions in Australia is conducted in very utilitarian terms should come as no suprise, since Australia's public philosophy is utilitarian one. Currently, the key issue in the debate is the private/public funding of the university. The funding issue mostly ignores any consideration of the […]

Red vs. Blue: kickass short movies made with video-games. Sez Cory: The two most astonishing things about the Red vs. Blue shorts are: How convulsively funny they are How emotive, expressive and inherently comedic game-avatars can be Check 'em out yourself at Red Versus Blue. [A blog doesn't need a clever name] the appropriation of […]

The Revolution will be telestreamed. Here are the Adbusters Epiphany finalists. My fave: Human branding. These are great! more anti-commercials more of the time…. [The Doc Searls Weblog]

Fedora – Digitial object repository management system. Quote: “The Fedora project was established under the auspices of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to build a digital object repository management system based on the Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (Fedora). The new system, designed to be a foundation upon which interoperable web-based digital libraries, […]

LYNCH A.A.R.. Donald Sensing links a WaTi report that the Army's CID is investigating the circumstances of the ambush in which PFC Jessica Lynch was initially captured…. [OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY] watch that 'wag the dog' action, isn't it pretty.

EINSTEIN SYNDROME. Thomas Sowell has an interesting column on a syndrome with which I had been largely unfamiliar: geniuses who are labeled autistic or mentally retarded because… [OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY] This is an interesting phenomena, but i wonder how many of those who develop language later are geniuses….

Second Lowest Form of Wit. Jean Baudrillard (Apologetic): I’m sorry I’m so late for dinner, dear, I got stuck at the office. Have I missed everything? Mrs Baudrillard (Annoyed): Welcome to the dessert of the meal. I know there’s a genre of these jokes waiting to be born. [Kieran Healy's Weblog] but there is no […]

Bursty Community Formation in Blogspace. Absolutely fascinating paper on community formation in blogspace, by Ravi Kumar, Prabhakar Raghavan, Jasmine Novak, and Andrew Tomkins, called On the Bursty Evolution of Blogspace. (Free ACM account required — it's so worth it, just for this article.) [A Man with a Ph.D. – Richard Gayle's Weblog] This is an […]