Archive for July 29th, 2003

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Wolfowitz Kills Terrorist Market Brainstorm

Sorry, you won’t be able to buy shares in Usama Bin Laden
anytime soon, as
reported here this morning. Reacting to immediate intense
pressure, Paul Wolfowitz killed the project
"I couldn’t believe that we would [...]

Harvard Square Flash Mob Set

The first
Flash Mob in the Boston area is set for Thursday in Harvard
Square.  Over 500 mobsters have signed up for the event, and today
received an email from the shadowy [...]

Eureka! Blogs do Educational Technology

An excellent posting by Paul Stacey about his discovery of blogs, RSS and more information than he ever dreamed of concerning his field, e-learning.
Includes background on all of the above with lots of links to live sites and seminal articles. from BC (British Columbia) Tech

Q: What do you do with an Elephant with Three Balls

 

A: Walk him and pitch to the Rhino
Q: What do you get when you combine Vermont wool from recycled
sweaters, a Holstien cow from upstate New York, ground cork from Mississippi,
various secret potions, silt from a secret slice of the [...]

DARPA Creates Opinion Aggregator to Predict Attacks

The Defense Department’s research wing, DARPA, usually involved in
more mundane projects like inventing the Internet and Robot
Races, may
soon be selling
shares in Usama Bin [...]

Open-source Mail and News Reader

The Mozilla Thunderbird (stand-alone Mozilla based mail/news reader)
developers have just released version 0.1 , available
for Mac Linux ,Mac OSX and Windows. Thunderbird is a cross platform stand
alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. The intended
[...]


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