the forgotten executioners Gštz Aly and Susanne Heim reveal the crucial role of academics and civil servants in their meticulous history of the men behind the Holocaust, Architects of Annihilation Peter Preston Sunday January 12, 2003 The Observer Architects of Annihilation by Gštz Aly and Susanne Heim Weidenfeld & Nicholson £25, pp514 How, 60 years […]

Dazzled by the science Biologists who dress up hi-tech eugenics as a new art form are dangerously deluded Jeremy Rifkin Tuesday January 14, 2003 The Guardian Recently, J Craig Venter, the gene scientist whose company, Celera Genomics, led the race to map the human genome, announced a plan to create the first artificial life form […]

John Palfrey Is A Blogger. John Palfrey Is A Blogger Don't you just love all the new bloggers coming online? John's part of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard and is up and running on his blog. He's a great guy, so stop by and say hello. Watch his blogroll grow …. […]

free to be freaky.. attention georgia citizens. you will be pleased to know that you are now free to fornicate at will. that's right! for the first time in 120 years, it is no longer illegal in the great peach state to get to know your neighbor in that special way. [MetaFilter] liberalism 120 years […]

The art of gaming My old friend (old as in long term: we were high school classmates, and attended many a science-fiction convention together) Greg Costikyan, the veteran game designer who has written some fine pieces for Salon about gaming, has started a blog of his own. “I want to talk about games, and game […]

BlogFodder launches. pb's launched his newest creation, BlogFodder, “A daily micro-mail that contains a word, phrase, link, or image that could spark an idea that could lead to a train of thought that might someday become the seed of a weblog post.” It will be interesting to see how many people actually post on the […]

from nettime.org by way of Heiko Recktenwald ITU To Propose Intl Cyberspace Treaty At Information Summit 279 words 14 November 2002 Nikkei Report English (c) 2002 Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. All Rights Reserved. TOKYO (Nikkei)–The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) will propose at the World Summit on the Information Society in December 2003 the creation of […]

Cue the balloons – I just found out that The Shifted Librarian is one year old today!  I want to wish Jenny Levine a very heartfelt congratulations.  Even more, I want to thank her for encouraging me when I started this blog.  I started this blog as a half-assed experiment, mostly to see what weblogs […]

CONTROLLING SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION: This guy isn't happy about it. I tend to agree. I don't mind classifying particular bits of… [Instapundit.com] in my opinion, unless the government is sponsoring science in its own labs, outside of other considerations, the science should be open and without infringement. giving money does not give ownership of information, it […]

'Mickey Mouse' degree courses targeted [Ananova: News] it seems clear to me that this is a new form of academic fascism brought about by the interest of capital.