Where the Girls Aren't. Computer science has become the new math — boys only. Is it nature or conditioning? By Karen Stabiner. [New York Times: Technology] hmmm, why? have you ever tought of the model they teach from…. who it appeals to?

Beyond the Blackboard. No more eraser clapping. Today's “slates” are chalk-free and interactive. By Michel Marriott. [New York Times: Technology] these are handy, but i'm not sure whether they change much

sure they are for kids, in theory, but whwo doesn't really want a t-rex mouse.

Dear Philosopher. “Dear Heidegger: What came first, the chicken or the egg?” “Dear Hobbes: What causes women to wear white pumps?” Answers and advice from these and other great philosophers, from h2so4. [MetaFilter] this is great stuff, and h2so4 has an utne award, yeah utne

More on Media2Go. There's more info and a photo available of that new Media2Go personal video player designed by Microsoft and Intel. The Media2Go can store up to 175 hours of VHS-quality video, and has a battery life of six hours, and runs on the Windows CE .NET operating system. Read [Gizmodo] mmm hmmm, but […]

When You Collectively Bargain, You Bargain With Bin Laden. Plastic::Work::Travel: The Transportation Security Agency has announced that airport security workers cannot unionize. Does the TSA deserve this power, or is Bush just trying to break organized labor? [Plastic: Most Recent] mmm, yup, but driving an suv and not participating in american activities is worse. isn't […]

Meanwhile, the British govt. is planning to introduce an identity card for everyone in Britain. Danny, who always knows lots about this kind of stuff, explains more about it (with lots of links) at Oblomovka: So the UK government has been proposing what they call an Entitlement Card – a universal ID card for every […]

When You Wish Upon A Blog. I Wish, You Wish Nifty site that scours wishlists (Amazon and others) of bloggers and puts them all in one convenient place, sorted by either birthday or alphabetically. [MetaFilter] i put my wishlist up the other day.

McLuhan Course of Course Blogs. I heard from Mark Federman of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology. He teaches a graduate course in “Mind, Media and Society” at the University of Toronto, my alma mater. He writes: “Essentially the course teaches people to think like Marshall McLuhan did… you know… come up with cute […]

Personal knowledge publishing and its uses in research (1/2) – 10 Jan 2003. Quote: “In this two-part document, I analyze an emerging form of knowledge sharing that I call personal knowledge publishing. Personal knowledge publishing has its roots in a practice known as “weblogging” that has been rapidly spreading on the World Wide Web over […]