26 February 2004
SAPAC must stay...AS IS!
24 February 2004
free_culture
a flash movie of the Lawrence Lessig Keynote from OSCON 2002:
If you understand this refrain, you're gonna' understand everything I want to say to you today. It has four parts:
*Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.
*The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it.
*Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past.
*Ours is less and less a free society.
free_culture
If you understand this refrain, you're gonna' understand everything I want to say to you today. It has four parts:
*Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.
*The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it.
*Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past.
*Ours is less and less a free society.
free_culture
Massive Change - The Future of Global Design
Paradoxically, the military — a design practice of raw efficiency without apparent aesthetic consideration — has become perhaps the twentieth century’s dominant producer of new cultural forms. This high stakes, high resource field has generated massive innovation that has affected almost every design practice — from materials science, to command and control, to robotics and communications. Yet, on closer examination, the transfer of ideas and technology increasingly runs in both directions. Hollywood fictions, toys and role-playing games increasingly supply the military with its newest concepts, and private sector R&D now surpasses that of the military.
also a leader in US integration efforts, supporter of affirmative action...
Massive Change - The Future of Global Design
also a leader in US integration efforts, supporter of affirmative action...
Massive Change - The Future of Global Design
23 February 2004
anarchy in the UK?
campus solidarity throughout the British Isles...
...unions have criticised the "marketisation" of higher education. During the week of joint action, staff and students will be on picket lines at university entrances in Wales on Monday, England on Tuesday, UK-wide on Wednesday, Scotland on Thursday and Northern Ireland on Friday.
BBC NEWS | Education | University week of protest begins
...unions have criticised the "marketisation" of higher education. During the week of joint action, staff and students will be on picket lines at university entrances in Wales on Monday, England on Tuesday, UK-wide on Wednesday, Scotland on Thursday and Northern Ireland on Friday.
BBC NEWS | Education | University week of protest begins
Joe Louis 'Fist' Vandalism
hmmm...
Two Ypsilanti men, ages 27 and 45, were in custody after police say they coated the suspended statue with gallons of white gloss paint. The fist is a downtown landmark that commemorates the boxing great.
yes, the two suspects are white. the story continues...
Detroit police spokesman Glenn Woods said there was no reason to believe the vandalism was racially motivated, though he acknowledged it was a possibility. Louis, who died in 1981, was black. "Maybe these guys don't like Detroit or they have something against Joe Louis," Woods said.
Mr. Woods must have a wry sense of humor. otherwise, if he did not intend his understatement to be facetious, then we can chalk this up as an exemplary case of the American tendency to avoid discussion of racial tensions either out of fear or some misguided desire to appear politically correct. the clear evidence of white paint being applied to a symbolic black fist in the city of Detroit is plain enough reason to believe that race played a part in motivating these two to act, and it's surely safer to assume that the 'something' they have against Louis is his race, unless we find out that the perpetrators are not vengeful scions of Max Schmelling but some other disgruntled, non-Nazi opponent from the past...
Yahoo! News - Joe Louis 'Fist' Vandalism Fuels Community Concerns
Two Ypsilanti men, ages 27 and 45, were in custody after police say they coated the suspended statue with gallons of white gloss paint. The fist is a downtown landmark that commemorates the boxing great.
yes, the two suspects are white. the story continues...
Detroit police spokesman Glenn Woods said there was no reason to believe the vandalism was racially motivated, though he acknowledged it was a possibility. Louis, who died in 1981, was black. "Maybe these guys don't like Detroit or they have something against Joe Louis," Woods said.
Mr. Woods must have a wry sense of humor. otherwise, if he did not intend his understatement to be facetious, then we can chalk this up as an exemplary case of the American tendency to avoid discussion of racial tensions either out of fear or some misguided desire to appear politically correct. the clear evidence of white paint being applied to a symbolic black fist in the city of Detroit is plain enough reason to believe that race played a part in motivating these two to act, and it's surely safer to assume that the 'something' they have against Louis is his race, unless we find out that the perpetrators are not vengeful scions of Max Schmelling but some other disgruntled, non-Nazi opponent from the past...
Yahoo! News - Joe Louis 'Fist' Vandalism Fuels Community Concerns
more on "Preacher Paige"
of course, the NEA incident wasn't the first time the Sec. of Miseducation shot from the hip and slipped into an embarrassing admission of his utter contempt for and lack of commitment to public education...
...Mr. Paige told the newsletter of the Southern Baptist Convention: "All things equal, I would prefer to have a child in a school that has a strong appreciation for the values of the Christian community, where a child is taught to have a strong faith." Now, one may take from this that Mr. Paige's personal preference is for Christian schools, which is not a firing offense but is faintly insulting given that he is the nation's lead spokesman for public schools. Or one may see it as an encouragement to public school teachers to mimic Christian values and teach children to have a strong faith, which is also odd given that the Supreme Court frowns on the practice.
Christian schools are growing, he elaborated, because "the value system is set. That's not the case in a public school where there are so many different kids with different kinds of values." What could he mean by "kids with different kinds of values"? If this is a euphemism for kids with bad attitudes or teachers who can't discipline or failing schools, he should say that. As is, this sounds like a criticism of the diversity we've always encouraged in our public schools.
Preacher Paige (washingtonpost.com)
...Mr. Paige told the newsletter of the Southern Baptist Convention: "All things equal, I would prefer to have a child in a school that has a strong appreciation for the values of the Christian community, where a child is taught to have a strong faith." Now, one may take from this that Mr. Paige's personal preference is for Christian schools, which is not a firing offense but is faintly insulting given that he is the nation's lead spokesman for public schools. Or one may see it as an encouragement to public school teachers to mimic Christian values and teach children to have a strong faith, which is also odd given that the Supreme Court frowns on the practice.
Christian schools are growing, he elaborated, because "the value system is set. That's not the case in a public school where there are so many different kids with different kinds of values." What could he mean by "kids with different kinds of values"? If this is a euphemism for kids with bad attitudes or teachers who can't discipline or failing schools, he should say that. As is, this sounds like a criticism of the diversity we've always encouraged in our public schools.
Preacher Paige (washingtonpost.com)
Our Sec. of Miseducation
NEA President Reg Weaver issued the following statement regarding Department of Education Secretary Rod Paige's reference to the NEA as a "terrorist organization" today at a private meeting of governors at the White House.
Weaver said, "It is morally repugnant to equate those who teach America's children with terrorists. NEA is 2.7 million teachers and educators who are fighting for children and public education. Yet this is the kind of rhetoric we have come to expect from this Administration whenever one challenges its worldview."
NEA: NEA President Responds to Sec. Paige - News Releases - National Education Association
Weaver said, "It is morally repugnant to equate those who teach America's children with terrorists. NEA is 2.7 million teachers and educators who are fighting for children and public education. Yet this is the kind of rhetoric we have come to expect from this Administration whenever one challenges its worldview."
NEA: NEA President Responds to Sec. Paige - News Releases - National Education Association
the 2005 draft?
unfortunately, i'm not talking about the NBA...
Oiling up the draft machine?
http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html
Oiling up the draft machine?
http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html
21 February 2004
Books | French intellectuals attack 'war on intelligence'
the French: they're at it, again...
"Paris remains one of very few places in the world where postmodern structuralists or relativist post-structural modernists can harbour realistic hopes of making it in television."
guardian.co.uk
"Paris remains one of very few places in the world where postmodern structuralists or relativist post-structural modernists can harbour realistic hopes of making it in television."
guardian.co.uk
Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate
20 February 2004
a screenwriter's blog
Mark Sarvas's The Elegant Variation
NewPages, alternative media weblog
a complete overview of weblogs
Blog of a Bookslut
Complete Review, a literary saloon & review site
"A selectively comprehensive, objectively opinionated survey of books old and new, trying to meet all your book review, preview, and information needs."
Complete Review - Welcome to the Complete Review
Complete Review - Welcome to the Complete Review
ArborBlogs: the ann arbor weblog directory
Dumi's blackblog
i'm checking out other blogs to see who's out there and what they have to say. my man L'Heureux is back in black, red & green:
www.blackatmichigan.com
www.blackatmichigan.com
Mark Dilley
many thanks to Mark for motivating me to get started on this and many other projects, which likely would've remained in a sorry half-ass state without his enthusiasm. "it only takes a spark to get a fire going..."
Mark Dilley
Mark Dilley
de omnibus dubitandum
translation: "you must always have doubts..." i read somewhere that this was a maxim of Karl Marx. because people tend to consider Marxism to be a set of dogmatic principles rather than merely a materialist philosophy, i thought this would be a fitting quip to serve as the introductory post on the space which i intend to use as a public reserve for my ongoing and ever-dubious internet activities...
