BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I watched the movie A Few Good Men tonight. If you haven’t seen it, it features Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore in a story about the Marine Corps, murder, and, ultimately, the question of honor. Honor and the Corps. Honor and service to one’s country. Honor and pride. Honor. What […]
The Blog Sisters generally, and Elaine and Jeneane, specifically, have been featured in a new New York Times article on weblogging, It’s a Man’s World (Isn’t it). The article focuses on weblogging and the perceptions that men tend to dominate weblogging, especially since most prominant webloggers are men. From the article: If that is the case, the Venus-Mars divide has made […]
Down to my last few pennies, literally, and half a book to rewrite before my next advance when fortune smiles on the Very Worried: I just got a gig that should last at least a couple of months. Now if I can absorb all the new RDF changes into the book fairly quickly and get […]
The first environmental impact from November’s Clean Sweep is the Bush Administration’s proposal to: … give managers of the nation’s 155 national forests greater leeway to approve logging and commercial activities with less examination of potential environmental damages. Regional managers are easily influenced by timber interests, who tend to have as much interest in the good of […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In the comments attached to the Girlism post, an Assistant Professor of Computer Technology, Dr. Elizabeth Lane Lawley mentioned effort at Carnegie-Mellon to understand why there is such a large discrepancy based on gender in the computer sciences. I found a web site devote to this project and have been spending some time reading publications associated […]