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Not X Prime (Jan 07 2004 21:32 GMT) - From the Rebutting The Premise department: Two of John Scalzi's favorite posts of 2003 (X Prime and followup) involved Senator Santorum's statements distinguishing homosexual people from homosexual activity. Scalzi argued that: In logical terms, you could write this as "I have no problem with X, I have a problem with X' " in which X is any particular human condition, and X' is the action by which the condition of X is ascertained; indeed, without X', X exists in an unverifiable state if it exists at all, since it is the performance of X' that establishes X definitively. |
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- Helps you keep track of all your wedding information in a simple easy to use application. |
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- Intel has established a new fund worth $200 million for investments in consumer electronics. Good marketing and probably good invested money, as Intel looks for new business fields to grow. Also interesting Intel has made its first investment in Russia, a region usually pretty much depleted of venture capital. "Russia and the rest of Eastern Europe are shaping up to be one of the hot new frontiers for technology companies, according to several technology executives. Sales of PCs, servers and other computing equipment continue to grow at a rapid rate in these markets, a trend that has benefited local manufacturers such as Kraftway, Russia's leading PC maker. |
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Examens (Jan 07 2004 21:31 GMT) - Yep ze zijn begonnen. Gisteren mijn eerste examen gehad: Database. 't Was gelukkig een piece of cake. Morgen wordt het ietskes zwaarder: |
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- My apologies to everyone for yesterday's issue of 'OLDaily Lite' - all the fluff, none of the content. It was caused by a server hiccup that erased my links database (currently a 4 megabyte file containing some 5,000 records, give or take - you can grab it here if you're interested in my collected wisdom since August 12, 1999 (when I first started using this file format). Anyhow. It doesn't work any more. It's too large and my site gets too much traffic. |
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- Discussion prompted by some of Jay Cross's observations and on what counts as "stupid" in learning. Things like this, certainly: "Twice per week my son joins a group of students in a barren classroom setting. The professor has never appeared in real life, not once, but instead delivers lectures via videotape. The students watch the videotape and take notes. |
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- Via George Siemens comes this nice analysis of the interactive social networking industry. This, as you can see from the document, is already a huge field with almost unlimited potential. By Gary George, VMS3, January, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] |
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- Hot Potatoes has been around almost forever, it seems. This versitile tool has been a favorite for those wanting an easy way to generate web-based quizzes and activities. This useful presentation offers a number of tips and tricks for tweaking your Hot Potatoes to customize the results to your tastes. It doesn't hurt that one of the authors is the creator of Hot Potatoes. Via the University of Calgary's Best Practices in E-Learning programme. |
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- This interesting article consists of issues raised by former keynote speakers at the annual Distance Teaching and Learning Conference in Wisconsin (which will always be remembered by me as the conference where zero people attended my talk on RSS, blogs and syndication a year and a half ago (their loss)). If I had to pick some issues that occupy my mind to flag, they would include "development of teaching/learning models based on geographically distributed communities-of-practice" (Chris Dede), "a technology architecture to sustain elearning design, development and implementation, content management and administration" (Gloria Gery), and the provision of "content through copyright and licensing mechanisms like Creative Commons" (David Porter). By Various Authors, Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning, January, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] |
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- This advice for the incoming MPAA head could equally well apply to publishers of educational material. Paraphrased: You've got time to prepare, but not as much as you think. The Napster for your industry is already here - it's called BitTorrent. If you clamp down on downloads you risk alienating your audience. |
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- Spartacus reports, "January 2004 saw the launch of an international forum which enables people from all over the world who are interested in education to post information, ask questions, and to take part in debates about education. The forum also helps teachers to find partners for subject specific and cross-curricular curriculum projects. It is hoped that the forum will provide a world community of teachers. Most of the website is in English but there is also sections in German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Swedish and Greek. In the near future there will be sections added in other languages. |
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- I don't know whether a study of the use of email for language is really breaking new ground, but I want to ask whether the presumptions in the analysis are well founded. The author writes, "efficiency is concerned with (1) the maximum production of desired effects (outputs or outcomes) and (2) the minimum use of resources (inputs) which are not absolutely necessary or which are not readily available." So, on this analysis, minimizing "the need to access computers" becomes "more efficient". But is that so? Anyhow, this paper is the current subject of discussion on the IT Forum. |
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- Really!: "Today's column, in fact, includes a line that's sure to be repeated among evangelical elites as an indication of how media elites are utterly unaware of the religious commitment and values of many of their readers: 'After talking to Mr. Bush's longtime acquaintances,' Kristof writes, 'I'm convinced that his religious convictions are deeply felt and fairly typical in the U.S. |
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- Is the motivation for terrorism negatively correlated with education? No, the inverse is true. The greater the education, the more likely a person is to be a terrorist. |
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Twenty-four (Jan 07 2004 21:30 GMT) - Today marks our 24th week of pregnancy --- wow, still hard to imagine we're more than halfway through this already.... |
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- This mountain cedar business is making me miserable. Very miserable. Between sneezes, sore nostrils and an oncoming sore throat, I... |
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Twelve (Jan 07 2004 21:30 GMT) - I cannot believe that my baby girl is already 12 years old. Twelve! She is 12 today. Sigh. Watching my... |
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- me either.... let's start just speaking English or we can get the Polish translated and you guys can think of a name for the German forum |
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- But report doesn't address whether county should hire more firefighters; Cost of proposed changes also absent |
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- But half still uncommitted ahead of early primaries |
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- Charges dropped in accident that killed 10-year-old Perry Hall boy; Man authors statement he hopes will be used in future hunter safety courses |
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Pain(t) (Jan 07 2004 21:30 GMT) - A good month after they issued the notice to not keep anything outside, they are finally painting the rest of the apartment complex. The West bedroom's windows were taped over when I got back home, and when Marx got the LF home from school, the door was all taped up and they were busy. Finally. |
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- If any readers of developer.e-xact.com are going to the Vancouver PHP Conference on January 22 and 23, 2004 (which looks to be really cool, Rasmus Lerdorf, PHP creator, will be there; need I say more? And only $150 CAN for a two day conference! |
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- This is great news for E-xact and its peers! From The Pomo Blog, Online shopping breaks records QUOTEHoliday online shopping was up nearly 30% to $12.5 billion, according to the folks at comScore Networks and reported by Media Daily News....If travel is included, then retail spending online was up 27 percent to $93 billion. UNQUOTE |
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- Jornades Contraculturals aquest dissabte al cso la opera us eperem a tots i totes! |
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- SUDBURY, Ont. - A man was ordered to be ''nice'' to his spouse once he gets out of jail for beating her. A judge ordered Zachary Fay to make regular, thoughtful gestures to his common-law spouse, such as sending flowers, taking her to the movies and going for walks together. |
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- Hip-hop star Missy Elliott says she's troubled by fans who are mad at her because she has lost weight. |
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- LOS ANGELES - It's a boy for actress Kate Hudson and her husband, musician Chris Robinson. Ryder Russell Robinson was born Wednesday in Los Angeles. |
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- INFIELD, W.Va. - The winner of the biggest single lottery jackpot in U.S. history has been accused of threatening to kill a West Virginia bar manager. |
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- KUTZTOWN, Penn. - A disabled Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to public drunkenness and disorderly conduct for being drunk on the highway - in a motorized wheelchair. |
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- DENNIS, Mass. - A man asleep in bed was ejected from his home - mattress and all - when a stolen car crashed through his small cottage. |
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