This is part of my weekly Irish Times column today on the excellent, now-annual 'E-Cities Report' from a team headed by Iona chairman Chris Horn: Dublin has now slumped to second-last position in a list of potential “e-cities” when benchmarked against 13 cities of similar ambition, the Dublin Chamber of Commerce's e-city working group revealed this […]

White teachers flee black schools. Some see exodus in South as a new form of segregation. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories] i saw this story last week, but it is just as shocking today as it was last week. the article where it originates from demonstrates such prejudice on all sides that i just […]

Public School Teach-Ins: Education Or Indoctrination?. Plastic::Etcetera::School: “Anti-war activists and pacifists spoke to between 5,000 and 10,000 students in sessions that replaced the normal class schedule for 30 schools in Oakland, California. ” [Plastic: Most Recent] all education is some form of indoctrination, i wish people would just get off their high horse on this […]

New Desktop/Tablet PC Combo. Live From Gadget Central “Let the record show that CES 2003 finally put the CRT monitor in the grave. Flat panels practically wallpapered the place. Samsung and Philips continue to dominate in LCD industrial design. What stood out for me were Philips's DesXcape wireless touchscreen monitor and keyboard that turn any […]

Stones Self-Organize into Circles [Scientific American] wow so do people…. same process too, metaphorically.

Civil liberties in gamespace [bOing bOing] well i'm happy someone is doing this work, though i don't know why…

How to convert a Unitarian [bOing bOing] this just irritates me to no end, why does everyone proselytize. I mean the new conservatism of the u.s. is just fascist in its orientation , it seems. but if you look through history, there is always a strong conservative movement before world change, so maybe this will […]

Congestion charging 'could boost bike sales' [Ananova: News] this would be great.. just shut down every 2 lanes of a 3 lane highway and make it bikes only…

Privacy: Going, Going…. Privacy invaders are like termites. They undermine, eating away at the structure of your personal life, until you wake up… [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] i wish someone would do a nice geneology of the concept of privacy, so that everyone would know that it never really existed.

Chancellor Clinton. And the alternative… [Kieran Healy's Weblog] i told some friends about this a while ago, they laughed.