Tuesday, January 28, 2003

Service Academies Defend Use of Race in Their Admissions Policies. By defending policies that are not "race neutral," the officials of the nation's service academies appear to contradict their commander in chief. By Adam Clymer. [New York Times: Education] 10:20:52 PM    comment []

Class-action warrior. When corporations run amok and accountants are shredding documents, who ya gonna call? Try lawyer Bill Lerach. [Salon Headlines] 10:20:34 PM    comment []

You Can Help Change Bad Copyright Rules. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a Web form you can fill out to help the Librarian of Congress come up... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 10:17:24 PM    comment []

Reason Online Sucks. Plastic::Media::Internet: Writing in the Village Voice, Cynthia Cotts takes a look at Reason Online and examines its "snarkier, punkier attitude", which she traces back to our dearly departed Suck. [Plastic: Most Recent] 10:16:09 PM    comment []

More Slammer news: Microsoft slammed by own vulnerability [InfoWorld: Top News] 10:09:33 PM    comment []

Opera releases leaner, meaner Windows browser [InfoWorld: Top News] 10:09:01 PM    comment []

Bollywood confidential. Despite a massive international market and a huge impact on pop culture, the outrageous musical eye candy of Bollywood remains almost invisible in America. Top 10 must-see Bollywood marvels. These 10 films will get you up to speed on the amazing all-singing, all-dancing spectacles from the world's No. 1 moviemaking nation. [Salon.com] 10:07:45 PM    comment []

Dialect Survey The Dialect Survey uses a series of questions, including rhyming word pairs and vocabulary words, to explore words and sounds in the English language. There are no right or wrong answers; by answering each question with what you really say and not what you think is "right", you can help contribute to an accurate picture of how English is used in your community. Includes loads of usage maps illustrating the findings. 4:49:08 PM    comment []

William Gibson quotes a correspondent and comments: By stacking his cyberspace atop the oldest VR in the Book, readers recognize that we have always been living and operating in multiple virtual worlds simultaneously. When Mamoru Oshii takes hold of this trope, and torques its compounded strata to implicate the slightly more broad-band 'literacy' of the cinema, we recoil, stunned, that indubitably there are agencies of affect molding our layered presumptions as to the contemporaniety of reality. Well, shit, yes. What she/he said. I could actually recognize something like my best guess, in that post, at what it might be that I actually do when I write. Or part of what I do, anyway. But the closest I ever get to knowing that is when someone says something like this (and it’s truly remarkable, how seldom academics ever do). However, it’s probably best for me to avoid thinking in these terms, else I become self-conscious about torqueing my tropes in public. 2:45:32 AM    comment []