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Mugendai
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Homecoming (Oct 17 2003 19:58 GMT) - Taking a hiatus from my hiatus, bwahaha. Tomorrow is homework day. Then Sunday is church and lunching day, and then... |
Blogcritics
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Enigmatology (Oct 17 2003 19:58 GMT) - Literally, the study of riddles; Will Shortz, legendary crossword puzzle editor of the New York Times, defined it as the... |
WTVD Troubleshooter headlines
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Ride Inspection (Oct 17 2003 19:58 GMT) - Carnival operators are putting the finishing touches on rides at the state fair this hour. We've been keeping a close eye on these rides since they started arriving earlier this week. We wanted to know just how safe they are. The marriage of metal and steel can take your breath away. |
Silt
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This just in. (Oct 17 2003 19:58 GMT) - LGF is absolutely, positively, beyond the merest inkling of an iota of a fraction of a soupçon of a scintilla of a doubt, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Christo-fascist right-wing PNAC Crusader élite. Pass it on. |
Silt
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Bonus selection. (Oct 17 2003 19:58 GMT) - There has got to be a reason Why they say that doubt is treason And that questioning the war is an offense to all humanity. They can see just black and whiter, Nothing else but left and righter, And their Leader, who is capable of nothing but inanity, Is so thirsty for aggression, That not even a Congression- Al rebuke would be sufficient to abandon this insanity. Nothing short of total warring Will suffice to stop the roaring Of those voices such as Limbaugh, Coulter, Sullivan, and Hannity. And now Dubya has to do it, ‘Cause his Daddy went and blew it. |
Silt
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But wait! There's more! (Oct 17 2003 19:58 GMT) - More good news, that is. My SO has just been offered a very nice job in the Netherlands, so it appears extremely likely that he and I will be moving there prochainement. Yay. |
Silt
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Francoptimisme. (Oct 17 2003 19:58 GMT) - As anyone who has ever visited a warhawkblog knows, France is an absolute basket case—economically, socially, morally, politically, and in just about every other way imaginable. “Anglo-Saxon” antipathy to anything Gallic is nothing new, but it has risen to fever pitch recently, for well-known geopolitical reasons. |
OLDaily
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Fall (Oct 17 2003 19:58 GMT) - After what must be the best September weather in history, the leaves have started to turn here in New Brunswick and the brisk north wind is nudging at our necks, letting us know that another season of snow and ice is nigh. But in between the haze of summer days and winter's storms there is a brief interlude when the lanscape erupts with colour, nature's last moment of glory before tucking in for the season. We call it Fall, and I have captured some of its glory in this series of photographs. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, October 17, 2003 [Refer][Research][Reflect] |
OLDaily
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B.C. Educational Technology Users Group 'Blogtalk' (Oct 17 2003 19:58 GMT) - Scott Leslie reports on an interesting experiment involving the use of blogs to facilitate an online discussion on possible uses of blogs in education for the B.C. Educational Technology Users Group (ETUG). The experience left him with mixed feelings. "On the applications of blogs to education, there seemed to be a few glimmers but then there were just as many issues that arose. |
OLDaily
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A Guide to Institutional Repository Software (Oct 17 2003 19:58 GMT) - As summarized by Melissa Hagemann, "The guide describes the five open source, OAI-compliant systems currently available. As many institutions are developing repositories, OSI thought it would be helpful to produce such a guide so that each institution could select the software best suited to meet its needs. Included in the guide is a brief narrative overview of each system followed by a summary of the systems technical features. The guide will be updated as additional systems are developed." By Various Authors, Budapest Open Access Initiative, October 17, 2003 [Refer][Research][Reflect] |
OLDaily
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Learning Ecology, Communities, and Networks (Oct 17 2003 19:58 GMT) - It goes without saying, but in an online environment classes and classrooms are artificial constructs, relics of an age when physical and resource limitations required the clumping of students into discrete spaces. But the twelve-week chunk of learning with predefined curriculum and geographically defined cohort has its limitations, and authors are increasingly exploring more appropriate models for the information age, including especially online learning communities and networks. This article is an overview of such explorations and grapples with the basic concepts: what is a learning community? What is an ecology? |
The Eye Opener
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Baseball Musing (Oct 17 2003 19:57 GMT) - Both of the teams I dearly hoped to see in the World Series aren't going to be there to a large extent because their managers didn't pull the their starting pitchers early enough. And so we are getting what shapes up to be an anticlimax. Frankly, I don't give a damn which team wins the Series. No, hold on a sec, Paddy. The Marlins are underdogs and pretty scrappy. |
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