JURN directory Links to selected arts & humanities ejournals. Journals listed are either free, or offer significant free content. [From JURN : directory of scholarly ejournals in the arts & humanities] —— this looks like a good resource, though the javascript is a bit irritating.

EMI has told Danger Mouse that his latest CD won’t see the light of day due to “legal issues,” so he’s responding by releasing the disc as a blank CD-R in a jewel case with art and liner notes. Fans can just download the music off a P2P site and burn it to the CD-R. […]

Cult author JG Ballard dies at 78 [From BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Cult author JG Ballard dies at 78] ——- he was one of my favorite authors. he always had interesting critiques. i used to have his books in my office and home and generally spread about. I’ve read most of his fiction, though […]

Tragedy Remembered – and Forgotten: The Politics of Memory and Technology —- brent’s keynote, its related to a few paper’s we’ve been working on.

balloons alight Originally uploaded by buridan this was shot just after the race started

Qimo is a desktop operating system designed for kids. Based on the open source Ubuntu Linux desktop, Qimo comes pre-installed with educational games for children aged 3 and up. Qimo’s interface has been designed to be intuitive and easy to use, providing large icons for all installed games, so that even the youngest users have […]

Ontario judge orders website to reveal identity data on anonymous posters [From Ontario judge orders website to reveal identity data on anonymous posters] —— someone probably needs to explain to the judge that there is a huge difference between the state having a compelling interest to protect children thus over-riding privacy rights and the compelling […]

I think for Ada Lovelace day I’ll have to mention my mom. She might not be a high tech wizard like my sister and my wife, but my mom is on facebook and twitter. She knows how to do what she wants to do; she even has a programmable sewing machine for doing things that […]

I don’t think that I can say that I ever studied from Marjorie Grene, but I did study with her. She sat in on an Ancient Philosophy graduate class I took and came to the weekly Ancient Greek translation and reading group we had for a while in the philosophy department. She was a real […]