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ERs Dangerously Deficient
A report from the CDC says U.S. emergency units are overcrowded, understaffed and turning away trauma patients. In Bodyhack. From Wired News on September 27, 2006 at 10:46 p.m..

Three Times a Display Screen
Sharp's Triple Directional Viewing LCD allows folks to view a trio of different full-screen images at the same time. In Gear Factor. From Wired News on September 27, 2006 at 10:45 p.m..

Judge: StreamCast Induces Piracy
Citing "massive infringement" of copyrights on the Morpheus file-sharing network, a federal judge says StreamCast Networks encourages its users to break the law. From Wired News on September 27, 2006 at 10:45 p.m..

Decentralized Intelligence Agency
What a great way to learn: spend a day and a half with friends you really respect having a free-flowing group conversation with fifty or sixty people who yearn to change but are mired in the last century’s clutches. Marcia, Eugene, Ross, Jerry, Clay, David, Mark & I tried to help “the Agency” reconcile secrecy [...] From Internet Time Blog on September 27, 2006 at 10:45 p.m..

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This feed has been discontinued and you should unsubscribe. The feed reader you are using does not support standard HTTP mechanisms for announcing that a feed has been discontinued so you will receive this message until you manually unsubscribe. Please contact the provider of your feed reader and encourage them to support the use of HTTP 410 response codes. Your feed reader identified itself as "Edu_RSS/0.2 libwww-perl/5.79" From Seb Schmoller's Fortnightly Mailing Home Page on September 27, 2006 at 9:47 p.m..

Branding the intranet
Toby Ward has written an article on branding the intranet. To quote: Does this mean though that the intranet home page should look like the Internet home page? No it doesn't. It should not be a replication of the external... From Column Two on September 27, 2006 at 9:46 p.m..

Do We Need a Thin Pill?
A whopping 75 million Americans may have something called metabolic syndrome. How Big Pharma turned obesity into a desease and then invented the drugs to cure it. By Thomas Goetz from Wired magazine. Plus: The History of Weight-Loss Drugs From Wired News on September 27, 2006 at 8:45 p.m..

Panel urges higher-ed overhaul
Sky-high tuition and lack of accountability are targets of a federal commission. Christian Science Monitor | Learning on September 27, 2006 at 7:45 p.m..

The cult of expertise
I just got back from 1.5 days of meetings with members of the CIA's intelligence analysis community who are interested in what social software can do for them. There were six of us "experts" and about 50 CIA folks. These are the people who put together analyses and "estimates" about what's going on in the world so that our leaders can ignore them and do what will get them re-elected (or, in some particularly Oedipal cases, do what will make Mommy love them more than Mommy loves Daddy). In short, these folks are among the few representatives of the Reality... From Joho the Blog on September 27, 2006 at 6:49 p.m..

Apple Fixes ITunes 7
After leaving an angry mob of Windows users stranded for weeks with un-syncable iPods, Apple addresses performance bugs in its iTunes 7 media player by releasing an update. Download it and tell us if it works. In Monkey Bites. From Wired News on September 27, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..

Turning Up Heat on Global Warming
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signs a comprehensive initiative putting California at the forefront of the battle to bring global warming under control. From Wired News on September 27, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Active Home Web Use by Country, August 2006
The number of home users rose almost across the board. From ClickZ Stats on September 27, 2006 at 5:45 p.m..

Cingular to Offer Apple IPhone?
Insider sources say Apple and Cingular are teaming up to offer some sort of iPod/phone hybrid in 2007 that will be available exclusively on the Cingular network for the first six months. In Listening Post. From Wired News on September 27, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..

Edelman on manic-depression
Here's some interesting CEO-blogging. Richard Edelman of Edelman PR (which is a client of mine (disclosure)) writes about his mother's bipolarism from a very personal point of view. [Tags: richard_edelman blogs bipolar>]... From Joho the Blog on September 27, 2006 at 3:49 p.m..

Porn Doesn't Create Crime
Porn and internet access did not increase the rate of sex crimes in Croatia, nor does it appear to be related to divorce rates in America. In Sex Drive Daily. From Wired News on September 27, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Gadget Lab: Aliens in Your Lap
Alienware designs a laptop so slick you'll beg it to probe you; a docking station for the PSP misses the point and an all-in-one printer frees up more desk space for pictures of your cat. All in this week's Gadget Lab. From Wired News on September 27, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Cingular to Offer Apple iPhone?
According to insider sources, Apple and Cingular are teaming up to offer some sort of iPod/phone hybrid device near the beginning of 2007 that will be available exclusively on the Cingular network for the first six months. In Listening Post. From Wired News on September 27, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

Three Times a Display Screen
Sharp's Triple Directional Viewing LCD allows folks to view three different full-screen images at the same time. In Gear Factor. From Wired News on September 27, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

Get Illuminated
BoingBoing has started a new podcast interview series called Get Illuminated (based on the print magazine's original tagline), and honored me with being the first guest.It was a fun talk, with two of my oldest friends in this game, Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz. I said a bunch of stuff I shouldn't have, so it really should be listened to! From rushkoff.blog on September 27, 2006 at 2:45 p.m..

Online Lovers Need Stealth Switch
One tap of the foot pedal hides your personal activities from the boss, if not from IT. In Sex Drive Daily. From Wired News on September 27, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

Autos to Store MP3s
Soon you'll be able to download your MP3 library to your car, but iTunes are not an option. In Autopia. From Wired News on September 27, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

Three Days and Counting for Conference Proposals
This is your last reminder…presentation proposals for the First Annual K12 Online Conference are due by the end of day Saturday, so if you haven’t gotten yours in yet, you better get cranking. As of this moment, we have 34 proposals… Click here to submit. technorati tags:k12online, k12online06, learning, education Listen to this podcast [...] From weblogged News on September 27, 2006 at 12:46 p.m..

Love the Leak, Hate the Leaker?
Congress considers protecting journalists from being forced to reveal their sources, while punishing government workers who leak secrets to reporters. Here's why that schizophrenic approach actually makes sense. Commentary by Jennifer Granick. From Wired News on September 27, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Warcraft Wonders of Tomorrow
Now that the new World of Warcraft expansion is upon us, it's time to consider the extras that are yet to come. How about smokin' cybersex, more elves than you can shake a Quidditch broom at, and humanoid tapirs? Commentary by Lore Sjöberg. From Wired News on September 27, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Peek at NSA's Secret Reading List
What's the typical U.S. spook reading up on? From encryption to extraterrestrials, recently divulged documents offer a glimpse between the covers of the National Security Agency's classified internal magazines. By Ryan Singel. From Wired News on September 27, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

Psychos Need a Little Sympathy
Psychopaths are not a lost cause, one scientist argues. They simply suffer from a learning disability, and proper treatment could save society lots of pain and suffering. By Suzanne Leigh. From Wired News on September 27, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..

City University Plans to Open a Graduate School of Public Health
The university has added several schools and programs in recent years, including an honors college and a graduate journalism school. From New York Times: Education on September 27, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

On Education: In a Childrens Cancer Ward, Lessons Beyond A B Cs
Bringing school to a childrens ward, especially in a cancer hospital, is believing that there will be a future. From New York Times: Education on September 27, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

Ohio University Tries to Get Past Problems, but New Ones Emerge
As university officials prepared for Thursdays Day of Discourse to address ways to prevent plagiarism, new accusations were made in the student newspaper against its business school. From New York Times: Education on September 27, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

Secretary Vows to Improve Results of Higher Education
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings vowed to implement some of the measures recommended by a federal panel, the Commission on the Future of Higher Education. From New York Times: Education on September 27, 2006 at 2:45 a.m..

Introducing collaboration technologies to the enterprise is a challenge
Dennis McDonald has written a piece on the challenge of introducing collaboration technologies in the enterprise. To quote: Successful collaboration tool introduction is based less on the characteristics of the tool itself than on the motivation users have to use... From Column Two on September 26, 2006 at 11:47 p.m..