Saturday, February 01, 2003

Susan has some good context on the Columbia space shuttle disaster. 5:04:34 PM    comment []

Radar image from the National Weather Service that shows the crash, vividly, in color. [Scripting News] 4:21:17 PM    comment []

2nd Shuttle gone. CNN: "The space shuttle Columbia, carrying a crew of seven, broke up Saturday morning 200,000 feet above Texas." [Scripting News] [Ross Mayfield's Weblog] An image is worth a 200,000 words. [Marc's Voice] [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 4:16:41 PM    comment []

Time-lapse animation of debris dispersion [bOing bOing] 4:15:17 PM    comment []

David Heller: HTML's Time is Over. Let's Move On. [Scripting News] I am unpersuaded. 8:58:06 AM    comment []

Verizon fights order to reveal file swapper [InfoWorld: Top News] 8:55:42 AM    comment []

TiVo to up lifetime-service fee. The seller of digital video recorder services plans to boost its lifetime subscription fee from $249 to $299 starting March 3, says a note on its Web site. By Richard Shim, Staff Writer, CNET News.com. [CNET News.com] 8:55:08 AM    comment []

Black Guide to Harvard Covers History and Tips. From faculty members to cornrows, two African-American Harvard undergraduates try to tell black students at Harvard College everything they need to know in 322 pages. By Sara Rimer. [New York Times: Education] 8:52:05 AM    comment []

Kathy to Hilary, July 17, 1971, Tehran, Iran. July 17, 1971: in which Kathy learns that Jim Morrison's dead, views preparations for the 2,500th celebration. [of continuous monarchy in Iran] and is not looking forward to eating chelo kebab morning, noon, and night. I’m bringing a jar of peanut butter, just in case. All at the very fine Tehran <-> Washington, DC 1970-1973 teen girl blog. 8:46:24 AM    comment []

Goodbye, Mr. Chipstein, by Joseph Epstein, in Commentary. The year I started teaching was 1973. The student revolt was over, at least in its to-the-barricades phase, but the more long-lasting effects had begun to kick in in earnest. A new air of informality had become almost de rigueur. . . . . Out of sheer nonconformity, I chose to teach in a jacket and tie. . . . . . . . NO TRAINING is available for teaching at the university level. One strains to remember one’s own best teachers and to borrow from them what one can. At Chicago, many of my most memorable professors had been Europeans; they had about them a grandeur that was foreign (in every sense) to their American colleagues, who had to fall back on precision and, among a lucky minority, wit. Some of my teachers deployed an impressive erudition, a commodity I did not happen to possess, and some a no less impressive passion for their subject, which I thought I could muster. I asked a friend who had been teaching for a decade or so if he had any advice. “Yeah,” he said, “never let ’em go outside. When the weather gets warm, they’ll want to hold class on the lawn, as in those sappy photographs in the brochures. Don’t let ’em do it.” In 30 years of teaching, I followed this sound advice to the letter. And more. Worth a read, mostly not too cranky, and several insights. 8:28:31 AM    comment []

Three years ago, on 'tother blog: Another week Tuesday, February 1, 2000 The Advance Program is online for CFP2000. 10 Big Myths about copyright explained by Brad Templeton. At angrycoffee.com, they say , "An audio revolution is brewing." At Stanford University, you can look in on An In-Depth Look at "The Unfinished Revolution" in which Douglas Englebart explains his vision on how society and organizations can develop their improvement infrastructure to cope with the urgency and complexity of the challenges we are facing today and tomorrow. 4:15:47 AM    comment []