Helping Graduates Outwit Hard Times. Trudy Steinfeld tells thousands of N.Y.U. graduates each year that it is not hard to land a job so long as they take a shrewd approach to their search. By Steven Greenhouse. [New York Times: Education] second paragraph from the bottom, it's all about money.

TURN OFF YOUR TV week

The KeyPaso – a computer in a keyboard. New computer called the KeyPaso that's contained entirely within a keyboard, so all that's needed is a monitor. Read [Translated from Japanese using Babelfish] [Gizmodo] It's a commodore 64, i've seen it before…. honest.

Sub-$1000 universal disc player. From Denon, the first so-called single disc universal player to drop below a thousand bucks. These universal players can handle just about anything that's shiny and five inches in diameter, including Super Audio CDs, DVD-Audio discs, CDs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs, DVD-R, DVD-RW, and DVD-video discs. Read [Gizmodo] nifty, now if we could […]

Not Exactly Darwin's Radio: Philosophy Radio and Philosophy Lectures. Philosophy Radio and Philosophy Lectures Among many selections are Relativism and Scepticism, Ethics and Morality ,The Origins of Value, Heidegger's Being and Time, Memes, Zombies and Human Consciousness, The Soul In Our Time and a football match between Grecian and German philosophers. We call it soccer. […]

one humanism or another is fine by me.

New Global Vision. New Global Vision is an interesting video project out of Italy. They are aiming to archive videos from around the world to ease the burden of bandwidth on any single download source. They've assembled a database of 130 videos so far — all under the Attribution, Noncommerical, Share Alike Creative Commons licenses. […]

Semantic Studios: Trust by Design. Peter Morville. In recent months, I've become a big fan of the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab and the Web Credibility Project. Their studies regarding how people evaluate a web site's credibility show the critical importance of information design and structure. [Tomalak's Realm] some interesting work here….

Philip Greenspun on the death of the MIT Media Lab. [Scripting News] yes, it will be viewed with disdain hopefully as a marker of the downfall of public oriented research…

Digital Storytelling Festival returns Eight years ago I attended the first Digital Storytelling Festival in Crested Butte, Colo., at which a group of three dozen or so invited guests assembled to talk about the collision of narrative art and digital technology. It remains one of the high moments of my conference-going career — and not […]