UK racks up record games sales. Far out [The Register] oh oh oh, again, we find sales up and no university thinking very hard about what to do about computer games….

SUV Owners and Terrorism. I've come to admire Arianna Huffington for her passionately progressive politics. Once a tunnel-visioned right-winger, she opened her eyes to… [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] this is fairly clear to me, suv's fund terrorism much more than drugs, etc.

Cult Barbeque Products - just had dinner with our friends Steve & Jamie, and learned that Jamie gave Steve a Big Green Egg for Christmas.  Anyone else out there hear of this thing? It's the ”original ancient Kamodo cooker” based on an idea that is 3000 years old (yeah, I think I remember reading the hieroglyphic account of this when […]

Trepia “Trepia? is a revolutionary networking application that lets you instantly meet other Wi-Fi users in your vicinity. Using patent-pending technology, Trepia? discovers other Wi-Fi users in your area by analyzing base-station access patterns. Other users will simply appear on your contact list, allowing you to communicate with them. Seek out new people and make […]

the wonderful wizard of mars. The System Administrator's Guild demonstrates true geek wisdom in governence. Like the scientist-intellectual class in Kim Stanley Robinson's epic Mars Trilogy, the members of this Guild elect volunteer leaders to fulfill the group's administrative functions. Robinson's democratic fantasy land–where there are no real politicians–is often overshadowed by the sheer scientific […]

Originality in Free Software. When we talk about user-supported software and business models, it's easy to forget that most use of Free Software is by or on behalf of businesses. Some businesses use it heavily enough to justify employing maintainers of Free Software. If you are employed by such a business, does that mean you […]

Helium Performance. Free and Open software development is frequently based around a suite of collaborative tools and processes. Last Fall students in a design patterns course mixed some agile methods with a little sauce of their own for some interesting results. [Advogato] this is the sort of thing that more universities should be doing… instead […]

Battle of Brooklyn, Part 2. Last month, Wall Street Journal columnist Dorothy Rabinowitz published a searing indictment of the tenure debacle at CUNY's Brooklyn College…. [Critical Mass] it seems to me, from what i have read so far that the individual made their voice heard, and then in a most inappropriate fashion tried to leverage […]

still waiting for the iPresident. So I wandered over to Senator Edwards' website, and was impressed to see an online donation tool. So I tried it out. It told me my card was declined. I tried another card. It too was declined. Both cards are fine, so I figured there must be a problem with […]

though perhaps not many bloggers teach, i was reading about some earlier and then my semi-weekly tomorrow's professor email arrived, so i thought maybe others will find it handy. there is also a fair amount on academic life too, and surprisingly it isn't as nifty as some imagine it, though i tend to enjoy it […]