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Monthly Archives: July 2003
Eureka! Blogs do Educational Technology
An excellent posting by Paul Stacey about his discovery of blogs, RSS and more information than he ever dreamed of concerning his field, e-learning. Includes background on all of the above with lots of links to live sites and seminal … Continue reading
Q: What do you do with an Elephant with Three Balls
A: Walk him and pitch to the Rhino Q: What do you get when you combine Vermont wool from recycled sweaters, a Holstien cow from upstate New York, ground cork from Mississippi, various secret potions, silt from a secret … Continue reading
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DARPA Creates Opinion Aggregator to Predict Attacks
The Defense Department’s research wing, DARPA, usually involved in more mundane projects like inventing the Internet and Robot Races, may soon be selling shares in Usama Bin Laden. The idea is an extension of the proven power of free markets to … Continue reading
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Open-source Mail and News Reader
The Mozilla Thunderbird (stand-alone Mozilla based mail/news reader) developers have just released version 0.1 , available for Mac Linux ,Mac OSX and Windows. Thunderbird is a cross platform stand alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. The intended … Continue reading
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Christopher Lydon: The Nature of Sound
Can sound be usefully incorporated into the blogging format? That is the question being explored by Christopher Lydon, eminent radio personality, in his blog, appropriately called Christopher Lydon. The blog consists largely of annotated streaming oral interviews with such blogging … Continue reading
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Million Dollar Robot Race
Teams are preparing for the DARPA Desert Challenge, a robot race with a milliondollar prize. Put simply, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) will give $1 million to the team whose robotic car drives itself the fastest from Los … Continue reading
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Flasher’s Rig Recognized in Sharon
WALPOLE — A North Carolina trucker charged with exposing himself to three Walpole 9-year-old girls in a local Stop & Shop Saturday was arrested at a Sharon motel yesterday after a police officer recognized his rig. The store’s surveillance video … Continue reading
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Experts Urge Strong Education Not Trade Barriers
The New York Times technology section has an article which argues that we should not try to stop the exodus of manufacturing jobs overseas. It makes the argument that this movement makes US businesses more profitable at home. Rather, we … Continue reading
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US Firm to Buy Soyuz for Tourism
MOSCOW (AFP) – US firm Space Adventures is interested in buying a Russian Soyuz space craft to make tourist flights to the International Space Station, ITAR-TASS said Saturday. The Arlington, Virgina-based firm brokered the first two tourist space flights in … Continue reading
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8 Questions that Freak Men Out
See how many of the eight you can guess before reading the article. Hint: "Was that your thing?" is not on the list. from Netscape
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Webstation: Full-functioned PC for $167
The Lindos Corporation today introduced the world’s least expensive internet capable computer, at an incredible $167 (as pictured, no monitor). Currently, the lowest priced store brand computers start at $399. Microsoft X-Boxes, which include a hard drive, sell for, coincidently, … Continue reading
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Manila Standoff Ends
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — More than 300 mutinous Philippine troops who seized a downtown residential shopping complex surrendered late Sunday, ending a 19-hour standoff with government forces without a shot fired. “The crisis … is over,” a visibly relieved and … Continue reading
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