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So here’s Alan’s ptWiki. It’s made with PhpTiddlyWiki, which may or may not be a “real” Wiki but seems to work ok for what it is. The uses I can imagine for such a thing include a course dictionary or thesaurus project or perhaps the dep’t private pages.

Must check out this Java(TM) tutorial on ‘Inversion of Control’ (which came in through the Jars Newsletter) - to see if it’s related to what I deal with in my listener-aware items that are used for variables etc in gex.

Google Earth - Temporarily Closed

Looks like a good article on JPSartre by Paul Lichfield in the Independent - via Arts&Letters Daily

Guardian Unlimited | Online | Patent absurdity

Joho the Blog: New in BlogBridge

eWeek’s Larry Seltzer dumps on Philadelphia’s plan for wireless internet infrastructure.
He claims to be making a technical argument about security, but it’s really just a disguised attack on public ownership.

Michael Geist is an Ottawa law professor with the right attitude towards copyright issues. Bill C-60 makes it illegal for consumers to make personal copies of material for which they have already paid for that right by means of the thieving “media levy” (which forced me to pay a bunch of record companies for the [...]

Scott Leslie reviews EdTechPost: “Finally, a free lunch: The benefits of an open source VLE” - Report on Oxford’s Use of Boddington and links to a repot on a UK open source LMS

EdgeBooks interview with Rebecca Goldstein on Edge: G�DEL AND THE NATURE OF MATHEMATICAL TRUTH

These Interactive Whiteboards seem to be becoming affordable

Must remind self to look at this:
Rethinking Mathematics - Rethinking Schools Online

At last the rest of the world has caught up to where
June Lester was in 2002.

Templeton Foundation “Power of Purpose” Essay by Augie Turak

When pages like
THIS require a plugin, after you click the plugin icon, the browser says “After installing the plugin, Click here”, but the installation process requires you to close all apps, including the browser.

TheStar.com - Just give me that old-time atheism! Salman Rushdie replies in the Toronto Star to Dylan Evans
The 21st Century Atheistin the Guardian.
Evans identifies religion as “a kind of art, which only a child could mistake for reality and which only a child would reject for being false” and faults authors such as Dawkins [...]

Alertbox: Ten Years (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
Perhaps the most important criterion for usability of the web as a whole is our common adherence to accepted standards, and perhaps the most fundamental standard of all is the language of communication (in this case English). So it is unfortunate that in his 10th anniversary posting Mr Nielsen flouts [...]