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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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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
[...]

Can sound be usefully incorporated into the blogging format? That is the question
being explored by Christopher Lydon, eminent radio personality, in his blog,
appropriately called Christopher
Lydon. The blog consists largely of annotated
streaming oral interviews with such blogging luminaries as David
Sifry (most
recently), Doc
Searls, [...]

Teams are preparing for the DARPA Desert Challenge, a
robot race with a milliondollar prize. Put simply, the Defense Advanced
Research Project Agency (DARPA) will give
$1 million
[...]

WALPOLE — A North Carolina trucker charged with exposing
himself to three Walpole 9-year-old girls in a local Stop & Shop
Saturday was arrested at a Sharon motel yesterday after a police officer
recognized
[...]

The New York Times technology section has an article which argues that we should not try to stop the exodus of manufacturing jobs overseas. It makes the argument that this movement makes US businesses more profitable at home. Rather, we should try to educate the labor force thus “freed up” to take advantage of [...]

MOSCOW (AFP) - US firm Space Adventures is
interested in buying a Russian Soyuz space craft to make tourist flights
to the International Space Station, ITAR-TASS
said Saturday. The Arlington, Virgina-based firm brokered
[...]

See how many of the eight you can guess before reading
the article.  Hint: "Was that your thing?" is not on the list.
from Netscape

The Lindos Corporation today introduced the world’s least
expensive internet capable computer, at an incredible $167 (as pictured,
no monitor).
Currently, the lowest priced store brand computers start at $399.  Microsoft
X-Boxes, which include [...]

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — More than 300 mutinous Philippine troops who seized a downtown residential shopping complex surrendered late Sunday, ending a 19-hour standoff with government forces without a shot fired.
“The crisis … is over,” a visibly relieved and smiling President Gloria Arroyo said in a nationally televised address, as senior aides at the presidential [...]