Edu_RSS ~ August 12, 2003

Most recent update: August 12, 2003 at 11:00 p.m. Atlantic Time (GMT-4) Search Edu_RSS: Palms new name Palm gets a new name later this week. In case you hadn't heard, Palm is formally splitting up into two companies: PalmSource which develops the Palm operating system, and Palm Solutions Group, which will make handhelds and hardware. The spinoff of PalmSource won't be done for a few more months, but Palm Solutions Group, to avoid the inevitable confusion, is changing its name. The new moniker is expected to be announced sometime later this week. And while after the Handspring merger the obvious pick would be PalmSprings or somet From Handheld Instructional Technology on August 12, 2003 at 10:46 p.m.. (19698) Untitled Press Release: New Bejeweled for PDAs Introduces Aurora Sound System. Astraware Launches Bejeweled “Game of the Year Edition” for Palm OS 5.x and Pocket PC 2002/2003 with Dynamic New Aurora Sound System THE MIDLANDS, ENGLAND - August 8, 2003 - Astraware announces that its most successful PopCap licenced game,... [Feedster RSS Search Results for palm] From Handheld Instructional Technology on August 12, 2003 at 10:46 p.m.. (19697) The Diamond Age bigner writes "The new diamond age is here and will revolutionize the computer industry. Diamonds show amazing potential as a superior semiconductor." From Slashdot on August 12, 2003 at 10:46 p.m.. (19696) Issues paper for knowledge and innovation reforms DEST has released an issues paper on the Australian Government's policy framework for higher education research and research training. The paper will support the consultations now under way as part of the evaluation of the 1999 Knowledge and Innovation reforms of research and research training. The aim of the evaluation is to ensure that the policy and funding framework for Australia’s block research funding schemes is effective and efficiently managed. Issues Paper, details of the consultation workshops, submission details and other relevant information are online at the link a From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 10:45 p.m.. (19694) Earnings alert: Applied sees loss The company's new equipment orders fall 41 percent...Xbox deal lifts Nvidia...Cisco finds strength in new businesses. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 10:45 p.m.. (19693) GXS appoints new financial chief From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 10:45 p.m.. (19692) Learning Disabilities Jody Swarbrick, About Guide to Parenting Special Needs, has compiled learning disability resources from across the About.com network in a multi-guide special. From dyslexia to speech and language issues to ADD/ADHD, you'll find What You Need to Know About Learning... From Adult/Continuing Education on August 12, 2003 at 9:50 p.m.. (19691) Congratulations to Tim Tim Lauer is the new principal of Lewis Elementary School located in Portland, Oregon. He's already busy building a website for Lewis out of moveable type to use as a content management system. Lewis Elementary is sure to soon reap the benefits of having Tim on board. Congratulations, Tim! From Edublog News on August 12, 2003 at 9:49 p.m.. (19690) Untitled Geoff Heard has been marshalling MORE 3.1 docs. He has PDFs of the full manual. This is pretty incredible. Released in 1991, MORE works on today's Macs. You can download the software for free on outliners.com. From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 9:46 p.m.. (19689) Amazon stretches deal with Target The e-tail giant says it has extended its five-year contract to provide all back-end Web operations for retail giant Target. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 9:45 p.m.. (19688) Nominating Nota It looks like the NameFinalVote was, in fact, not final. Turns out that there were far too many votes for None of the Above to flat-out ignore. With that in mind, here's my new nomination: Nota. Nota means "note" in Portugeuse. Nota Bene (Latin) indicates that special attention should be paid to something. Both are appropriate in describing a feed,... From Don't Back Down on August 12, 2003 at 8:49 p.m.. (19687) Comics by RSS I've been receiving comics via email for months. Unfortunately, both comics.com and ucomics.com are moving to a subscription model, where I think you can get a single comic by email for free, or sign up (and pay!) to get more. I figured I'd have to head to the web regularly now, something that I don't generally do! Luckily, about three... From Don't Back Down on August 12, 2003 at 8:49 p.m.. (19686) Finneytown Uses Weblogs I came across another school district in Ohio using weblogs today. The Finneytown School District which is located in Cincinnati has some examples of weblog use among the staff web pages and in the Technology Department. Here's a middle school teacher, Mrs. Stoefel's, Adventures in Social Studies. I can't help but wonder how many more examples are From Edublog News on August 12, 2003 at 8:48 p.m.. (19685) Untitled Collaborative learning environments sourcebook. This is a sourcebook for academics and students who want to develop collaborative learning environments (or communities of practice) in which lecturers, students and others can work together to create new knowledge while learning new skills. [CriticalMethods.org] This is a project of a group of educ From Bill Brandon: eLearning on August 12, 2003 at 8:48 p.m.. (19684) Programming theory I've been reading A Tutorial on (Co)Algebras and (Co)Induction. What I'm wondering when reading it, is the use of tuples. Everything is converted to and from tuples. An example: data List = Nil | Cons Integer List head Cons x xs = x tail Cons x xs = xs The Cons constructor creates a tuple. … From Sjoerd Visscher's weblog on August 12, 2003 at 8:47 p.m.. (19683) PNG-support in Radio Now, this is great. But why didn't we know about that beforehand. Re: Enhancement request PNG . I wrote PNG support for my... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on August 12, 2003 at 8:46 p.m.. (19682) Netzwerkanalyse again! Informativer roundup von Georg Bauer zum aktuellen Thema ; Terminologisch würde ich nochmals Elwyn Jenkins und Tom Coates ... From thomas n. burg | randgänge on August 12, 2003 at 8:46 p.m.. (19681) Identity Theft Countermeasures? gbell asks: "Stories about reconstructing shredded documents and horrific tales of rampant identity theft (at least 750K victims/year) have me scared and ... From Slashdot on August 12, 2003 at 8:46 p.m.. (19680) Untitled Great piece by Tim Bray that explains how designers should use XML. He describes the Worse Is Better school of XML format design. The names we use for elements are the worst-possible names, but they allow our software to interoperate. Namespaces create elements with names with colons in them. I bet Tim agrees that funky feeds, even if they're valid RSS, hurt interop. So much of this is obvious, yet we s From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (19678) Untitled Ted Leung writes about jury duty. It's like watching a courtroom drama on TV, but the camera is in a weird place. I wrote about my experience with jury duty in 1996. From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (19677) Untitled Godin: "What is it about ubiquity that breeds contempt?" From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (19676) Untitled Seth Finkelstein solved the puzzle on 20 Questions. A person who is both animal and vegetable. Read the comments to find out who it is. From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (19675) Untitled BBC: "The earliest bloggers have been at it for two years now." Yet another idiotic piece about how much better the pros are than amateurs. A basic fact like this, so easy to check. The earliest bloggers have been "at it" since 1994, for almost nine years. No sign From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (19674) Untitled Google names eight enterprise customers of their search appliance: Pfizer, the US Army, the city of San Diego, Xerox, Hitachi Data Systems, Nextel Communications, Procter & Gamble and Discovery Communications. From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (19673) Untitled The XML-RPC site is getting a lot more traffic lately. Nothing's changing, just lots more hits. And the referers don't reveal anything. Not sure what's happening there. From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (19672) Untitled Google now has a built-in calculator. Coool. How about a built-in dishwasher? From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (19671) Untitled Sadly, this year I will not write about the Bees. From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (19670) Untitled News.Com: Is ZIP coming undone? From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (19669) Untitled Greg Hanek explains why the XML-RPC site is getting so much traffic. "Do a Google search on 'RPC' and see what is at the top of the list. The latest nasty worm (aka LoveSan, MSBlast) that affects Windows users takes advantage of the RPC hole that exists be From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (19668) Untitled EFF: "You could spend up to five years in prison, pay a $250,000 fine and lose your right to vote for trading a single copyrighted song if the Author, Consumer and Computer Owner Protection and Security Act is passed by Congress." From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (19667) Untitled Speaking of Ole, here's one of my favorite Ole and Lena jokes. From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (19666) Untitled Thanks to Ole Eichorn for finding a bug in my RSS feed. The guid needed to be adjusted by three hours in order to be a permalink. It was a good guid (say that five times fast) but it was not pointing to anything on Scripting News. The bug was introduced when I moved from California to Boston in March. At first I thought Ole was being anal retentive, and told him so (not in those wor From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (19665) Untitled DeanSpace: Why Use DeanSpace? From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (19664) Untitled News.Com: "McDonald's said it plans to sell Internet access inside 100 locations in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas." From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (19663) Untitled Charles Cooper: Here we go again. From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (19662) NEC Solutions unveils security software The company's data security product, designed to keep sensitive information confidential, is aimed at health care organizations that face patient privacy rules. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (19661) Pitch Update D’Arcy reminded me that we haven’t had a Pitch update in a while, so here’s a breif bit. We’ve settled on a logo, attitude, and general look and feel for the journal (see http://pitchjournal.org/). We spent this afternoon going over... From autounfocus on August 12, 2003 at 8:45 p.m.. (19660) Open Source Portfolio code released I'm sure this is not news to anyone actively working on portfolio projects, but it just came across my desk. Apparently the OSPI project released their source code on July 30th. "Formed in January 2003, the Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSPI) is a collaborative, open-source, software development project based on the University of Minnesota Enterprise System's electronic portfolio software. The initial OSPI core group, consisting of the University of Minnesota (U of MN), University of Delawa From EdTechPost on August 12, 2003 at 7:46 p.m.. (19659) Higher Education Committee Releases Report on P2P djeaux writes "The Joint Committee of the Higher Education and Entertainment Communities has released a "Background Discussion of Copyright Law and Potential ... From Slashdot on August 12, 2003 at 7:46 p.m.. (19658) Untitled DeanSpace: Why Use DeanSpace? From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 7:45 p.m.. (19657) Using RSS in JSP Pages Handy page on integrating RSS feeds into JSP pages...... From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on August 12, 2003 at 7:45 p.m.. (19656) Politics (TM) So fair, so balanced, you'll be sued into agreement. From Creative Commons: weblog on August 12, 2003 at 7:45 p.m.. (19655) T-Online drops Overture for Google The Web access provider signs a multiyear deal with Google for search services, abruptly severing its contract with rival Overture Services. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 7:45 p.m.. (19654) McDonald's adds more Wi-Fi to its menu The fast food chain says it plans to sell Internet access inside 100 locations in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 7:45 p.m.. (19653) Work First, Study Second If you're an adult undergrad, do you identify as an employee who studies, or a student who works? Does it matter? ...Yes it does, according to a study by the National Center for Education Statistics. How you identify can affect... From Adult/Continuing Education on August 12, 2003 at 6:50 p.m.. (19652) Iceman Otzi was a Fighter Theatetus writes "Yahoo! News is running a story from USA Today that Otzi the iceman's murder is more complicated than we thought. It seems Otzi had blood on ... From Slashdot on August 12, 2003 at 6:46 p.m.. (19651) Here we go again CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says thatafter two decades' worth of Swiss cheese softwaresecurity, the world's biggest supplier of operatingsystem software has run out of excuses. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. (19650) Opt-out, 'ADV' not spam solutions "Solutions" discussed in the U.S. Congress and elsewhere always address spam after it has gotten onto the wire. We will never be able to fully block spam sources. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. (19649) MSBlast echoes across the Net The new worm exploits what may be the most widespread Windows vulnerability ever and underscores the limitations of getting patches in place. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. (19648) Virus spreading, but impact moderate The MSBlast worm continues to spread, but the damage seems to be somewhat contained, at least in the working world. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 6:45 p.m.. (19647) Feed Your Brain dead mouse, by the house "What if in the future, librarians are to design chips for 'people' so that they can better distinguish and use the information that is beaming all around. I'd like to make RSS feeds for the brain." [Lazyitis] You'll have to read Aaron's whole post on his photoblog to get the connection.... From The Shifted Librarian on August 12, 2003 at 5:48 p.m.. (19646) Reading blogs on your Palm As I noted in an earlier post, I bought myself a Palm M130 as a present to myself in starting my new life as an independant consultant. It's my first PDA and I went for the cheapest model I could afford that was still expandable and offered a decent colour screen. I had resisted getting one for a long time, but finally broke down and got one, not least of which was because I've been involved with discussions about website accessibility for too long not to actually try and access websites through an alterrnate device. I've used Jaws and other screen readers, but never From EdTechPost on August 12, 2003 at 5:47 p.m.. (19645) SCO Execs Dumping Stock luigi6699 writes "According to the Salt Lake Tribune, 'SCO Group executives have sold about 119,000 shares of their company since it filed a lawsuit against ... From Slashdot on August 12, 2003 at 5:46 p.m.. (19644) Updated Blogroll I've updated my blogroll using the Blogroll plugin for Movabletype. It now renders directly from the .opml output from NetNewsWire... It includes a link to the .opml source. Enjoy!... From D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog on August 12, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. (19643) New cell phones aim to connect standards Kyocera introduces cell phones using Qualcomm's GSM1x technology, which bridges two cell phone standards that are not interoperable. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. (19642) Worm's spread shows holes in patch system The MSBlast worm's quick spread supports the view that patches, while necessary to increase the security of specific computers, can't be relied upon to protect large networks. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. (19641) Tenure Track Opening at USU Although the position is open until filled, we will officially begin reviewing applications for our Assistant/Associate professor position on Friday the 15th. Personally I’m still hoping to see some applicants whose name I recongize from the blogosphere. =) With three... From autounfocus on August 12, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. (19640) Those Who Can't I passed on this article when it came out last week, but it has since attracted a raft of commentary on the WWWEDU mailing list, so perhaps I have misjudged the mood (hey, it happens sometimes). The gist of the article is that "Teacher training is lagging the adoption of technology." The majority of posters on WWWEDU agree, citing examples where students take over the operation of projectors and other equipment. Still, as one writer comments, "Let's critically judge teachers in terms of their technology integration skills once the technology has arrived at a maturity that makes it possibl From OLDaily on August 12, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. (19638) Calculator It seems like an odd use of billions of dollars worth of technology, but Google can now be used as a calculator. "To use Google's built-in calculator function, simply enter the expression you'd like evaluated in the search box and hit the Enter key or click the Google Search button. The calculator can evaluate mathematical expressions involving basic arithmetic (5+2*2 or 2^20), more complicated math (sine(30 degrees) or e^(i pi)+1), units of measure and conversions (100 miles in kilometers or 160 pounds * 4000 feet in Calories), and physical constants (1 a.u./c or G*mass of earth/rad From OLDaily on August 12, 2003 at 5:45 p.m.. (19637) EFF: Congress Tries to Make File-Sharing a Felony EFF: "You could spend up to five years in prison, pay a $250,000 fine and lose your right to vote for trading a single copyrighted song if the Author, Consumer and Computer Owner Protection and Security Act  is passed by Congress." From Weblogs At Harvard on August 12, 2003 at 4:47 p.m.. (19636) Local Area Security Linux 0.4a Anonymous Coward writes "Local Area Security Linux is a small 'live CD' distribution based on Knoppix that aims at being less than 185MB so it will fit on a ... From Slashdot on August 12, 2003 at 4:46 p.m.. (19635) Untitled Greg Hanek explains why the XML-RPC site is getting so much traffic. "Do a Google search on 'RPC' and see what is at the top of the list. The latest nasty worm (aka LoveSan, MSBlast) that affects Windows users takes advantage of the RPC hole that exists be From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. (19634) Untitled EFF: "You could spend up to five years in prison, pay a $250,000 fine and lose your right to vote for trading a single copyrighted song if the Author, Consumer and Computer Owner Protection and Security Act is passed by Congress." From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. (19633) Viruses, hackers hit a third of Net users Almost one in every three Internet surfers in the United States has been hit either by a computer virus or a hacker in the past two years, a new survey says. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. (19632) Logitech unveils new mice From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. (19631) BMC extends database management From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 4:45 p.m.. (19630) Beta: Cross-platform rich text editor for Mozilla/Radio... Beta: Cross-platform rich text editor for Mozilla/Radio. The Radio/Mozilla wizzy editor I've been working on for the last couple of... From Disruptive Technology on August 12, 2003 at 3:50 p.m.. (19629) The September issue of Wired Magazine has a story ... The September issue of Wired Magazine has a story on MIT's OpenCourseWare project. Until August 26, you'll have to read it in the print magazine. After that it will be freely available on the magazine's web site. Excerpt: "When MIT announced to the world in April 2001 that it would be posting the content of some 2,000 classes on the Web, it hoped the program --dubbed OpenCourseWare-- would spur a worldwide movement among educators to share knowledge and improve teaching methods. No insti From FOS News on August 12, 2003 at 3:48 p.m.. (19628) DSpace has launched a new discussion list, dspace- ... DSpace has launched a new discussion list, dspace-general, for "non-technical issues such as policies and services associated with DSpace". The new list complements dpace-tech, "a forum for implementors of DSpace to ask questions and discuss topics of a technical nature". From FOS News on August 12, 2003 at 3:48 p.m.. (19627) Listening to Linux Good news in the continuing the Linux installation saga: I'm now using my Linux box as a tunes server. Well, actually, all I've done is move my mp3s onto it and am playing them through xmms. The slightly impressive bit is that Mandrake's samba recognized the mini-drive I have plugged into a USB port on my XP laptop, so I'm now copying 10 gigabytes of MP3s over to the linux machine. Plus, Mandrake's xmms actually plays mp3's, unlike RedHat's that was scared off by patent uncertainties.... From Joho the Blog on August 12, 2003 at 3:48 p.m.. (19626) OpEd Piece on Extended Life Expectancy daksis writes "CNN has posted an OpEd piece from the New York Times that raises some interesting issues. With the current advances in biology, we as a society ... From Slashdot on August 12, 2003 at 3:46 p.m.. (19625) Apple //e In 1989, my parents sold our Apple //e to a family friend. Today I got word that she is done with it. (97 words) From dive into mark on August 12, 2003 at 3:45 p.m.. (19624) BMC widens support for Linux The management software maker announces a new version of its Deployment Manager for Linux software Tuesday, as well as increased support for enterprise Linux software. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 3:45 p.m.. (19623) Gateway puts handheld on hold The company, which had hoped to deliver a new handheld under its own brand this month, delays the release of the device indefinitely. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 3:45 p.m.. (19622) Call for Participation: Event on P3P and Enterprise Privacy Languages 12 August 2003: Registration is open for the W3C Event on P3P and Enterprise Privacy Languages hosted by IBM in St Leonards, Sydney, NSW, Australia on 9 September. Attendees will discuss the future of the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P), APPEL and other technologies including EPAL. The event is colocated with the 25th International Conference of Data Protection & Privacy Commissioners. Visit the Privacy home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on August 12, 2003 at 2:47 p.m.. (19621) Two-in-one ID theft, fee fraud scam debuts Nipped in the bud, fortunately From The Register on August 12, 2003 at 2:46 p.m.. (19620) Mitac smartphone to hit Europe next month Microsoft's first design win From The Register on August 12, 2003 at 2:46 p.m.. (19619) Court tells RIAA to take subpoenas somewhere else Legal staff does a Perry Smith From The Register on August 12, 2003 at 2:46 p.m.. (19618) New Transmeta Chip: "Efficeon" ddtstudio writes "Oh, "Astro" was such a friendly name -- but it probably had copyright issues. So the alphabet blender came up with "Efficeon" instead. This ... From Slashdot on August 12, 2003 at 2:46 p.m.. (19617) 'MSBlast' worm widespread but slowing The worm has infected as many as 100,000 computers in the past 24 hours, but the program's spread has slowed, say security experts. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 2:45 p.m.. (19616) Nvidia rejoins testing program The maker of graphics chips rejoins a benchmark testing program after a dustup over allegedly rigged results. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 2:45 p.m.. (19615) Logitech debuts new mice From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 2:45 p.m.. (19614) The GPO and National Archives Unite In Support of Permanent Online Public Access; Agreement Names GPO a NARA Affiliated Archives From ResourceShelf on August 12, 2003 at 1:50 p.m.. (19613) GartnerG2 and Berkman Publish First Paper GartnerG2, a business strategy firm, and the Berkman Center have published the first paper in the Digital Media Project entitled: "Copyright and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World". It chronicles the major legal and business developments in the copyfight and is a lead up to a discussion of possible future scenarios.  I had a hand in writing the legal sections and am quite looking forward to the next stages of the From A Copyfighter's Musings on August 12, 2003 at 1:48 p.m.. (19612) Takin' A Break ...not gettin' hitched, but my brother is. Until then I'll be a bit busy finishing up work stuff, saying goodbye to friends, and winding up this wonderful summer in SF. I should be back in about two weeks. From A Copyfighter's Musings on August 12, 2003 at 1:48 p.m.. (19611) Al Delgado Likes Type Pad Al is working hard to separate out all of the edu-Web loggers out there by software, and he's cranking in TypePad in the process. Al says "I decided to try to leverage the power of TypePad in order to support the teachers I work with use weblogs in our school community." He's got sites for Manila, Radio, and MT as well as his main site and a couple others thrown in for good measure. (D From weblogged News on August 12, 2003 at 1:47 p.m.. (19610) Gentoo Package Accused of Violating DMCA cshields2 writes "A recent post to the Gentoo mirrors mailing list passes along a DMCA violation claim that one of the mirror admins recieved. Supposively ... From Slashdot on August 12, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (19609) Worm wriggles around the world - Reuters An Internet worm targeting Microsoft Windows users was spreading rapidly around the world on Tuesday, triggering computer crashes and slowing Web connections, experts said. The worm, dubbed "Blaster" but also known as "LoveSan" or "MSBlaster," carried From Techno-News Blog on August 12, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (19608) Untitled Google names eight enterprise customers of their search appliance: Pfizer, the US Army, the city of San Diego, Xerox, Hitachi Data Systems, Nextel Communications, Procter & Gamble and Discovery Communications. From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (19607) on gilmore's protest I have the pleasure of serving with John Gillmore on EFF's board. While there are many things we disagree about, we share many values, and this one in particular: At a time of terror, we should demand reasonableness of those with authority -- even more strongly than in times of peace. I view BA's behavior here to be unreasonable. I don't doubt they have the "right" to do what they did -- such is the nature of law in a time of terror. That's not, in my view, the point. They have the responsibility to behave reasonably in the face of possible threats. Gillmore's behavior From Lessig Blog on August 12, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (19606) Moglen on SCO's FUD Eben has written a wonderful (and short) piece mapping the possible claims SCO might be making against GNU/Linux, and why these claims have likely no basis in the law. Read the essay here. From Lessig Blog on August 12, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (19605) now this is getting interesting: Red Hat vs. SCO Red Hat has apparently filed suit against SCO, and promised a fund to protect GNU/Linux. From Lessig Blog on August 12, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (19604) Edwards: one step closer to the blog EdCone has a brief and interesting interview with Senator Edwards. With one more step, he'd be in blog land. I'm not quite sure what's holding him back. For a man who has defended affirmative action across North Carolina, this would be easy. From Lessig Blog on August 12, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (19603) help us talk good Creative Commons has announced a contest to help us spread the message better. The idea is to build a 2-minute moving image that says what Get Creative says better. Cool prizes, amazing judges, lots of new creative content. From Lessig Blog on August 12, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (19602) the presidential blogathon continues Next week I'll be working offline to finish a book ("Free Culture") before my wife finishes carrying our kid. (And on that subject, check out this). But the blog will continue with Congressman, and presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich. Congressman Kucinich has had a blog for a while (made free under a Creative Commons license). I'm happy to welcome him to this space starting Monday. More on th From Lessig Blog on August 12, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (19601) casting call: stories of the public domain Public Knowledge, Creative Commons, and The Center for the Public Domain have launched a call for stories about the public domain. From Lessig Blog on August 12, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (19600) [sigh]: mp3.com, we hardly knew you There is a great deal of very exciting stuff that has already happened at Creative Commons, and that is about to happen too. We've got some exciting announcements coming soon, and the take-up rate on the licenses has surpassed our wildest hopes. But there are the moments of disappointment. And this exchange with "legal" at mp3.com is one of the most disappointing. The story begins when our assistant director, Neeru, sent an email to mp3.com to try From Lessig Blog on August 12, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (19597) reason at Warner Jonathan Percy runs a cool site called Green Plastic, which is a fan site for the band, Radiohead. The site hosts, among other things, lyrics from the band. In June, Warner/Chappell Music contacted Percy to ask him to remove the lyrics. This is of course increasingly common. Lyrics are copyrighted content. Posting lyrics makes a "copy" of them. Therefore, copyright owners who believe more control is better banish lyric sites to darkness. But this time, the story was a bit different. Percy complied, and took the lyrics down. Fans were upset, and com From Lessig Blog on August 12, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (19596) ibex: an excerpt from CODE I got an email from a reader. "I'm reminded of ibex," she wrote. Indeed. Here's a couple pages from Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. From Lessig Blog on August 12, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (19595) Welcome Congressman Kucinich As announced last week, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, candidate for President, will be guest blogging this week. He'll be posting his first post in about an hour, but in a bit of a change from the last presidential visit, he'd be eager to see questions from you that he can frame his posts around. He'd like to address at least (1) copyright policy, (2) media consolidation, (3) privacy, and (4) electronic voting, so please post questions to this entry about those issues, or any other issues you'd like to see discussed. Thank you to the Co From Lessig Blog on August 12, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (19594) Corporate Media and Media Accountability I would like to thank Professor Lessig for inviting me to begin a dialogue with you. Wherever I travel throughout America, including here, the issue of corporate media and media accountability arises in every question and answer session. The American people are deeply concerned about the erosion of democracy, notably... From Lessig Blog on August 12, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (19593) Congress, NAFTA, & WTO Yesterday, Rob asked several questions: 1) It is almost certain that you will be working with a Republican-controlled Congress at least initially during your tenure. Given that, do you believe it likely that you will be able to get the Congress to pass bills authorizing programs for national health care,... From Lessig Blog on August 12, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (19592) First Adventures in Urban Exploration It's the dead of night, and I'm stumbling through dense undergrowth, a weak pen torch lighting the way. Brambles tear at my clothes and bare arms. Ahead, Monty navigates with a stronger beam, and leads me and Pi up a steep incline. I give up all pretence of looking after my clothes and scramble up on my hands and knees, the torch held in my mouth. I slide down the other side on my arse into a broad trench. "Watch your step, it's along here somewhere," says Monty. We walk slowly, scanning the floor with our torches, and there it is - a featureless black hole in the leaf litter, j From kuro5hin.org on August 12, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (19591) Cybernet Launches Linux-based E-Commerce Suite NetMAX Professional E-Commerce Suite and E-Commerce Powerpack are designed to let small and mid-size businesses add online capabilities. From E-Commerce Guide on August 12, 2003 at 1:46 p.m.. (19590) Merlot Presentation Feedback We've been getting some awesome feedback from those who attended the Syndicating Learning Objects with RSS and Trackback presentation at Merlot2003. I've been told by several people now that it was one of the best presentations of the whole conference (which I find more than a little hard to believe). The audience did seem to perk up to the concepts we were demonstrating, and I think the whole RSS-syndication-of-learning-objects meme is getting some decent traction now. That's pretty cool, especially since it was kind of a stealth project in the beginning - it just happened - bu From D'apos;Arcy Norman'apos;s Learning Commons Weblog on August 12, 2003 at 1:45 p.m.. (19589) E-tailers Are Hard on Themselves E-commerce insiders give their industry a C- for customer experience. Lucky for them, their customers rate them higher. From CyberAtlas on August 12, 2003 at 1:45 p.m.. (19588) Wireless Youth Most Likely to Cut Cord The number of young adults strictly relying on mobile phones for their communication needs is expected to more than double. From CyberAtlas on August 12, 2003 at 1:45 p.m.. (19587) Four papers commissioned by the Australian governm ... Four papers commissioned by the Australian government to offer an independent analysis of its 2001 copyright reforms have now been released by the law firm that wrote them. The four papers address (1) libraries, archives, and educational copying, (2) liability of carriers, (3) DRM and its circumvention, and (4) rights and technology issues. From FOS News on August 12, 2003 at 12:49 p.m.. (19586) Web Services Choreography Requirements Published 12 August 2003: The Web Services Choreography Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of Web Services Choreography Requirements 1.0. Choreography defines message protocols, interfaces, sequencing, and associated logic for transactions among Web services and their clients. Visit the Web services home page. (News archive) From World Wide Web Consortium on August 12, 2003 at 12:47 p.m.. (19585) SCO's Scheme Working? So, SCO says some Fortune 500 company has licensed SCO's Unix (press release). The identity of the company (Microsoft?) and... From Dan Gillmor's eJournal on August 12, 2003 at 12:47 p.m.. (19584) Michigan law chief slams 'bogus' anti- spam group Shape up - or else... From The Register on August 12, 2003 at 12:46 p.m.. (19583) Samsung plots Ultra-wideband WLAN future Exit 802.11, enter 802.15.3a From The Register on August 12, 2003 at 12:46 p.m.. (19582) GUI Toolkits for the X Window System TeachingMachines writes "Leslie Polzer has written a nice summary of the current state of GUI Toolkits for the X Windows System (article title of the same ... From Slashdot on August 12, 2003 at 12:46 p.m.. (19581) Linux and the Unix Philosophy limbo_14 writes "Mike Gancarz takes his oft'-quoted original book, The Unix Philosophy and spruces it up for the Brave New World of Linux with Linux and the ... From Slashdot on August 12, 2003 at 12:46 p.m.. (19580) Untitled Google now has a built-in calculator. Coool. How about a built-in dishwasher? From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 12:46 p.m.. (19579) AMD puts new face on Opteron, Athlon 64 The chipmaker launches a new logo program to help identify products that contain its Opteron workstation and server processor and its forthcoming Athlon 64 chip for PCs. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 12:45 p.m.. (19578) Postal ID plan creates privacy fears A government report urging the U.S. Postal Service to create "smart stamps" to track senders' identities draws fire from privacy advocates. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 12:45 p.m.. (19577) You Can Now Use Google as a Basic Calculator From ResourceShelf on August 12, 2003 at 11:50 a.m.. (19576) Hoover's Launches a New Web Site From ResourceShelf on August 12, 2003 at 11:50 a.m.. (19575) Blackboard and SCT link up The VLE maker Blackboard, and information systems maker SCT announced an agreement to smooth integration between two of their main products. From CETIS: Standards in Education Technology on August 12, 2003 at 11:49 a.m.. (19574) Mill on Liberty and the Internet Scott Rosenberg has written an excellent appreciation of J.S. Mill's On Liberty. (It requires a Salon premium membership or the willingness to sit through an ad.) Scott contextualizes Mill brilliantly, getting past the standard "take-away" that one person's liberty ends only where another begin. He writes: The opposing force that elicited Mill's redefinition of liberty was nothing so old-fashioned as an oppressive king. Nor were encroachments on freedom of the press his concern... Mill's eloquence on behalf of liberty was inspired by what he saw as a deadening sameness of o From Joho the Blog on August 12, 2003 at 11:48 a.m.. (19573) Opening Library Databases to the Web "If you're one of those people that reads the newspaper while you're driving to work, could you please leave me a comment and explain why? I'm all for multitasking, but this one is just a bit too much for me and I don't get it." Driving to work this morning, I followed a guy that was reading the newspaper while driving, so I knew I would post this question when I got here. And I knew that I wanted to point out that I think multitasking can be a good thing, but I also wanted to point to the opposite view, specifically a recent article in the --> From The Shifted Librarian on August 12, 2003 at 11:48 a.m.. (19572) NTL boss Knapp quits As Q2 losses narrow From The Register on August 12, 2003 at 11:46 a.m.. (19571) Microsoft expands Mac Office line with x86 emulator Cuts prices too From The Register on August 12, 2003 at 11:46 a.m.. (19570) T-Online buoyed by broadband 27 per cent more BB punters From The Register on August 12, 2003 at 11:46 a.m.. (19569) Cypress ships low-cost wireless USB system And CSR allows Blutooth devices to be used during boot-up From The Register on August 12, 2003 at 11:46 a.m.. (19568) AOL Time Warner must drop AOL name, says AOL Now you see it... From The Register on August 12, 2003 at 11:46 a.m.. (19567) IBM: warming Dell customers 'If Dell doesn't ship you an eight-way Xeon server, we will' From The Register on August 12, 2003 at 11:46 a.m.. (19566) Win32 Blaster Worm is on the Rise EvilNight writes "You know you've got it when a 60 second shutdown timer pops up on your screen. The virus uses the RPC vulnerability. It looks like it's ... From Slashdot on August 12, 2003 at 11:46 a.m.. (19565) Untitled BBC: "The earliest bloggers have been at it for two years now." From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 11:46 a.m.. (19564) More on the halt of UCITA....Carol Ebbinghouse rep ... More on the halt of UCITA....Carol Ebbinghouse reports the story in today's Information Today, focusing on the response of librarians and consumers. Quoting Jean Braucher, law professor at the University of Arizona: "It is heartening to see NCCUSL backing away from a very flawed statute, but it will never be able to write sound law for the information economy until it takes to heart the criticisms of the user sector. The debate is not just 'politics.' There are fundamental policy problems with UCITA." From FOS News on August 12, 2003 at 10:49 a.m.. (19563) An unsigned editorial in the August 11 Pro-Physik ... An unsigned editorial in the August 11 Pro-Physik presents open access as the solution to the serials pricing crisis. Read the original German or Google's English. The editorial presents GAP (German Academic Publishers) as a home-grown model, and From FOS News on August 12, 2003 at 10:49 a.m.. (19562) Slovenian hacker found shot dead Suicide, apparently From The Register on August 12, 2003 at 10:46 a.m.. (19561) The "Techie" Vote? Ironica writes "This Los Angeles Times article discusses a compelling trend: techies are making their collective voice heard in politics. Quote from the ... From Slashdot on August 12, 2003 at 10:46 a.m.. (19560) Web services group issues guidelines The Web Services Interoperability organization finalizes guidelines to make sure that Web services products interoperate as advertised. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 10:45 a.m.. (19559) Syndicating Learning Objects with RSS and Trackback Syndicating Learning Objects with RSS and Trackback When I hear RSS in education and learning objects, three names ALWAYS come... From Disruptive Technology on August 12, 2003 at 9:51 a.m.. (19558) Serendipity in My Aggregator 500,000 Kids to Get Mobile Phones "Half a million kids in the UK under the age of ten will have a mobile phone by the end of next year, according to research published by market intelligence outfit mobileYouth. Today, one in nine (400,000) children aged between five and nine has a mobile phone. In 2000, the number was less than 80,000. The increase in mobile phone usage by young children is not limited to t From The Shifted Librarian on August 12, 2003 at 9:48 a.m.. (19557) Dutch anti-piracy group targets file swappers Just threatening? From The Register on August 12, 2003 at 9:46 a.m.. (19556) SiS samples integrated Athlon 400MHz FSB chipset Reg Kit Watch Ageing DirectX graphics From The Register on August 12, 2003 at 9:46 a.m.. (19555) FSF, GCC, and SCO Compiler Support Ancipital was one of several who noted that a special patch is going into GCC. The file is README.SCO, and it is a short writeup about the SCO situation ... From Slashdot on August 12, 2003 at 9:46 a.m.. (19554) Bill Gates: "No Part of Tech Is Standing Still" - Business Week Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, Bill Gates, argues that information technology is just at the beginning of a long process of growth. That said, he warns that the coming recovery will be far quieter than the Internet bubble of the lat From Techno-News Blog on August 12, 2003 at 9:46 a.m.. (19553) Jolted Over Electronic Voting - Brigid Schulte, Washington Post The Virginia State Board of Elections had a seemingly simple task before it: Certify an upgrade to the state's electronic voting machines. But with a recent report by Johns Hopkins University computer scientists warning that the system's software could From Techno-News Blog on August 12, 2003 at 9:46 a.m.. (19552) eSN Best Practice: This district reaps savings with refurbished PCs - Corey Murray, eSchool News As school districts tighten their technology budgets, some educators are finding new ways to keep pace with the unabated need for computers in schools. In spite of a tight budget, the Jordan-Elbridge Central School District in New York, recently pumpe From Educational Technology on August 12, 2003 at 9:46 a.m.. (19551) Untitled The XML-RPC site is getting a lot more traffic lately. Nothing's changing, just lots more hits. And the referers don't reveal anything. Not sure what's happening there. From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 9:46 a.m.. (19550) Untitled News.Com: Is ZIP coming undone? From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 9:46 a.m.. (19549) Ratholes and training wheels Tim Bray speaks bluntly about "what over in the W3C TAG we refer to as a 'rat-hole'": ... From Jon's Radio on August 12, 2003 at 8:47 a.m.. (19548) UK heatwave strains servers Scorchio! From The Register on August 12, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (19547) Anticipating Earthquakes dnahelix writes "Science @ NASA reports 'High above Earth where seismic waves never reach, satellites may be able to detect earthquakes--before they strike.'" From Slashdot on August 12, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (19546) NCSA Cluster Promises to Rank Among the World's Most Powerful Systems Dell has been selected by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign to provide more than 1,450 servers that will perform computations and data analysis for researchers across the U.S. to From Techno-News Blog on August 12, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (19545) Searching for the personal touch - Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com A stealth start-up out of Stanford University is hoping to raise the heat on one of the toughest problems in Web search--and possibly out-Google Google in the process. Kaltix was formed in recent months by three members of Stanford's PageRank team--a res From Techno-News Blog on August 12, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (19544) Online Resources For ESL Students - Juliana Luna Freire, techLearning As a non-native speaker of English myself, and having taught kids, teens, and adults for four years now, I believe I can give a pretty original insight of the many resources available on the Internet for ESL students. The number of resources is giganti From Educational Technology on August 12, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (19543) Med Students to Make Mouse Calls By Joanna Glasner, Wired When a colleague proposed a plan two years ago for teaching medical students online, Dr. Stephen Smith admits he was a bit taken aback. "I thought, wow, this is a crazy idea," said Smith, associate dean at Brown Medical School in Providence, Rhode Island From Online Learning Update on August 12, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (19542) Australian study debunks e-learning myths - CNETAsia An Australian study has overturned some common perceptions about the type of students online courses attract. The research, which involved 18,000 full-time students in 2002, dismisses popular beliefs that online schools are dominated by males, are onl From Online Learning Update on August 12, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (19541) Johns Hopkins Nursing Creates Collaborative Community Online The Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing (IJHN) Leadership Academy in End-of-Life Care is using Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services to galvanize the nursing profession, help a global community of more than 460,000 nurses to work in unison, and improve th From Online Learning Update on August 12, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (19540) Untitled Godin: "What is it about ubiquity that breeds contempt?" From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (19539) Untitled Seth Finkelstein solved the puzzle on 20 Questions. A person who is both animal and vegetable. Read the comments to find out who it is. From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 8:46 a.m.. (19538) Congress, NAFTA, & WTO Yesterday, Rob asked several questions: 1) It is almost certain that you will be working with a Republican-controlled Congress at least initially during your tenure. Given that, do you believe it likely that you will be able to get the Congress to pass bills authorizing programs for national health care,... From Lessig Blog on August 12, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. (19537) Is ZIP coming undone? Incompatible new versions of the popular file-compression format could put the squeeze on users and so unravel support for ZIP. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. (19536) Can you stop a movement with a subpoena? Examining the various twists and turns in the saga involving Linux and SCO, strategists Peter Skarzynski and Pierre Loewe look back to history to find other examples where movements collided with established institutions. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 8:45 a.m.. (19535) Wireless hotspots begin at home Telewest points the way From The Register on August 12, 2003 at 7:46 a.m.. (19534) Untitled Great piece by Tim Bray that explains how designers should use XML. He describes the Worse Is Better school of XML format design. The names we use for elements are the worst-possible names, but they allow our software to interoperate. Namespaces create elements with names with colons in them. I bet Tim agrees that funky feeds, even if they're valid RSS, hurt interop. So much of this is obvious, yet we s From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 7:46 a.m.. (19532) Untitled Ted Leung writes about jury duty. It's like watching a courtroom drama on TV, but the camera is in a weird place. I wrote about my experience with jury duty in 1996. From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 7:46 a.m.. (19531) Untitled Sadly, this year I will not write about the Bees. From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 7:46 a.m.. (19530) Update regarding Brisbane events Just a quick update on the Brisbane events: The Choosing the Right CMS seminar will be going ahead as planned, and there are still places left for this.The Intranet Peers in Government forum has been delayed due to lack of... From Column Two on August 12, 2003 at 6:47 a.m.. (19529) Name Change for AOL Time Warner? Hurtful headlines generated by a federal accounting probe worry the online service's CEO so much that he may ask the parent company to drop the 'AOL' from its name, according to an unnamed source. From Wired News on August 12, 2003 at 6:46 a.m.. (19528) Med Students to Make Mouse Calls Online education isn't just for MBAs and IT workers anymore. A new program will allow medical students to complete the first half of their schooling remotely, with a combination of online courses and local clinic practice. By Joanna Glasner. From Wired News on August 12, 2003 at 6:46 a.m.. (19527) Wish You Were Here, Send Brains The two NASA probes winging toward Mars have some problems when it comes to software: Even in space, there's never enough space. So engineers will delete some code and send new instructions on the fly. By Erik Baard. From Wired News on August 12, 2003 at 6:46 a.m.. (19526) Luxury Loo: The Seat Also Rises High-tech toilets from Japan, which have delighted some overseas travelers and terrorized others, are headed for U.S. homes. Are Americans ready for the spraying, swooshing and sloshing machines to invade their bathrooms? By Michelle Delio. From Wired News on August 12, 2003 at 6:46 a.m.. (19525) E-Vote Machines Face Audit The state of Maryland adds 11,000 Diebold touch-screen voting terminals to its existing stock just as a university report charges the systems with bad programming and lax security. An independent audit of the software is called for as other states stand poised to purchase the systems. By Kim Zetter. From Wired News on August 12, 2003 at 6:46 a.m.. (19524) AMD unveils Athlon 64 logo New CPU to be orange From The Register on August 12, 2003 at 6:46 a.m.. (19523) Hynix to ship 'first' 1Gb DDR II chip during Q1 2004 Sampling in Q4 From The Register on August 12, 2003 at 6:46 a.m.. (19522) IT systems constantly need greater protection Layered security model essential From The Register on August 12, 2003 at 6:46 a.m.. (19521) MSBlaster worm spreading rapidly Exploiting Remote Procedure Call flaw From The Register on August 12, 2003 at 6:46 a.m.. (19520) Cheap Wireless for Accessories morcheeba writes "Yet another wireless protocol for personal computers! In addition to existing 802.11 variants, bluetooth, and ultra-low-power newcomer ... From Slashdot on August 12, 2003 at 6:46 a.m.. (19519) Worse is Better via Bray Great piece by Tim Bray that explains how designers should use XML. What he describes is the Worse Is Better school of XML format design. The names we use for elements are the worst-possible names, but they allow our software to interoperate. Namespaces makes it appear (to some) as if there might be a technical solution, when what's necessary is human cooperation. From Scripting News on August 12, 2003 at 6:46 a.m.. (19518) And we're back Fate, it turns out, is a rat bastard. Only six hours after I post the previous entry, about infrastructure and ownership of the means of distribution, my own infrastructure and means of distribution went arse over tit, and I've only... From Ben Hammersley.com on August 12, 2003 at 6:45 a.m.. (19517) Athen grüßt Wien Sehr schöner Foto-Essay über Athen von Heiko Hebig . Tut gut vom glühenden Wien einen Blick nach Südosten zu werfen. ... From thomas n. burg | randg'#228;nge on August 12, 2003 at 5:47 a.m.. (19516) Microsoft fined $520m for infringing patents Will appeal Eolas verdict From The Register on August 12, 2003 at 5:46 a.m.. (19515) Transmeta to brand TM8000 'Efficeon' Half as fast again as Crusoe From The Register on August 12, 2003 at 5:46 a.m.. (19514) Update: RSS to JS- addressing accessibility Regarding our RSS to JS demo (code that allows you to embed RSS into any web page using a script that returns RSS as a series of JavaScript write statements), Michelle appropriately noticed that this approach would leave in the dark anyone using a screen reader (or just having JavaScript turned off). Bad dog. The problem is that screen readers will skip the Javascript statements. A first cut solution From cogdogblog on August 12, 2003 at 4:48 a.m.. (19513) Revised Snapster 2.0, Continuing the Legal Hack Matt links to Cringely's update to Snapster. He takes into consideration the basic fair use considerations and thinks he's in the clear. Cringely asserts that Snapster 2.0 is legal because it's based on lending. But he's actually talking about a pseudo-rental scheme, which isn't legal because of the Sound Recording Amend From A Copyfighter'apos;s Musings on August 12, 2003 at 4:48 a.m.. (19512) A Real Living With Virtual Goods RussHart writes "The BBC is reporting on a Julian Dibbell who has quit his day job to sell items from Ultima Online in the real world, hopefully making a ... From Slashdot on August 12, 2003 at 3:46 a.m.. (19511) eSN Best Practice: This district reaps savings with refurbished PCs From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on August 12, 2003 at 2:49 a.m.. (19510) Learning in an Online World. School Education Action Plan for the Information Economy. From Distance-Educator.com's Daily News on August 12, 2003 at 2:49 a.m.. (19509) Teacher Blog Hosting Paul Bradley (see his blog) of Clarity Innovations, Inc. has a TeacherHosting service, which offers different plans for hosting weblogs specifically for teachers and their students. From Ed Tech Dev on August 12, 2003 at 2:47 a.m.. (19508) Guide to Writing Games sjbrown posted a link to a Guide To Writing Games he is working on, specifically using Python and PyGame. He is stressing the Model-View-Controller design approach. The tutorial already has numerous screenshots, code samples, and has info on multiplayer networking using the Twisted framework. From Ed Tech Dev on August 12, 2003 at 2:47 a.m.. (19507) President of Rutgers University Is Robbed of Wallet Richard L. McCormick was robbed Saturday night as he walked out of a liquor store a few blocks from the campus in New Brunswick, N.J. From New York Times: Education on August 12, 2003 at 2:46 a.m.. (19506) Mano a Mano, Iron Teachers and Science! "Iron Science Teacher" is the most high profile element of the Exploratorium's Teacher Institute, which runs summer workshops for science teachers. From New York Times: Education on August 12, 2003 at 2:46 a.m.. (19505) Seagate to demo 2.5-inch drive The hard-drive maker is touting its new hard drive using SAS, a next-generation interface technology. The drive--which is smaller than average--is tailored to corporate servers and storage devices. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 2:45 a.m.. (19504) Online class rosters on the rise From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on August 12, 2003 at 1:50 a.m.. (19503) One-Third of U.S. Civilian Workers in Managerial, Professional Jobs From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on August 12, 2003 at 1:50 a.m.. (19502) Aus study debunks e-learning myths From Distance-Educator.com'apos;s Daily News on August 12, 2003 at 1:50 a.m.. (19501) From the New York Times, hints of a worst case scenario.... From The Art of Peace on August 12, 2003 at 1:46 a.m.. (19500) Microsoft Nailed by Software Patent An anonymous reader writes "It was just announced that Microsoft lost the case where it was accused of violating Eolas' patent on embedded applications in the ... From Slashdot on August 12, 2003 at 1:46 a.m.. (19499) Microsoft cuts price for Mac Office The software giant is cutting the price of the standard version of Office for the Mac by $100, to $399 and introducing a "professional" version of Mac Office v. X that sells for $499. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. (19498) High stakes for Transmeta's new chip The chip maker's latest, the Efficeon, will debut in notebooks later this year, a key element in the struggling company’s comeback attempt. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. (19497) Zone Labs branches into IM security Security software specialist Zone Labs has bought IMsecure to capitalize on the growing problem of instant messaging security flaws, the company is expected to announce Tuesday. From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 1:45 a.m.. (19496) PLO Presentation to Rice on "the Wall" The Bush administration shifted its posture regarding Israel's construction of a wall in the West Bank.  In a marked change of tune, the administration has gone so far as to consider subtracting the amount Israel spends on the controversial project from the amount of aid given by the US.  According to a Washington Post article, part of this change is the result of a flashy powerpoint presentation making extensive use of maps that the PLO gave to Bush National Securty Adviser Condoleezza Rice.  DC Indymedia has obtained a video of PLO legal adviser Stephanie Kour From CNET News.com on August 12, 2003 at 12:45 a.m.. (19494) Interview with SLASH'EM Developers MilenCent writes "The O'Reilly Network posted an interview with super-deluxe Nethack variant SLASH'EM's Warren Cheung and J. Ali Harlowe last month talking ... From Slashdot on August 11, 2003 at 11:46 p.m.. (19493) Untitled NY Times: "A federal judge in Boston said yesterday that there was mounting evidence innocent people were being executed. But he declined to rule the death penalty unconstitutional." From Scripting News on August 11, 2003 at 11:46 p.m.. (19492) Online gamblers sue their creditors A California couple that lost more than $100,000 by gambling online sues a host of credit card companies and banks, claiming the businesses shouldn't have processed their wagers. From CNET News.com on August 11, 2003 at 11:45 p.m.. (19491) P2P fingerprinter to get data from label Song ID company Audible Magic will tap into Universal Music's database to help fight unauthorized copying of songs. From CNET News.com on August 11, 2003 at 11:45 p.m.. (19490) States to query 1,000 in PeopleSoft bid State attorneys general face the daunting task of interviewing up to 1,000 customers, competitors and consultants in their antitrust review of Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft. From CNET News.com on August 11, 2003 at 11:45 p.m.. (19489) Adobe updates font collection From CNET News.com on August 11, 2003 at 11:45 p.m.. (19488) Flaw in Windows worm tips off defenders The fast-spreading "MBlast" worm seems to be crashing as many Windows computers as it's infecting, giving administrators a sign that they need to patch their systems. From CNET News.com on August 11, 2003 at 11:45 p.m.. (19487) [List Feeds][Add Another Feed][Back to Edu_RSS]