Monthly Archives: November 2006

Footnote

By Michael Becker | Published: November 18, 2006
In the cur­rent issue of Network World, columnist/blogger/executive edi­tor Adam Gaffin points us to a post by the inim­itable Mark Bernstein that fur­ther points us to an arti­cle by Jessica M. Laccetti, which is a review of a hyper­text fic­tion by Richard Holeton. Now, if that isn’t enough references... The text in ques­tion is a [...]
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Global Warming Thanksgiving

By Michael Becker | Published: November 17, 2006
I was watch­ing An Inconvenient Truth this morn­ing when our nar­ra­tor Al Gore men­tioned some­thing that caught my atten­tion (Well, all of it caught my atten­tion, but this caught it in par­tic­u­lar). Gore men­tioned that global warm­ing can have an effect on when par­tic­u­lar species hatch for the sum­mer. Sometimes, the hatch­ing does not coin­cide [...]
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University Salaries

By Michael Becker | Published: November 16, 2006
An arti­cle in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle today reports that Montana State University is fac­ing an employee reten­tion cri­sis. Many jobs at the uni­ver­sity are vacant–a full third of the cus­to­dial posi­tions are open and the uni­ver­sity is hav­ing a hard time staffing its police force. Rent in the Bozeman area is so high ($1,423) [...]
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Wikipedia and Robert Miller

By Michael Becker | Published: November 13, 2006
Okay, I have been read­ing Robert Miller’s Writing at the End of the World this week­end, and look­ing back at the title my last post, I’m intrigued. Miller talks about pick­ing up the pieces after an apoc­a­lypse, like 9/11 or the Oklahoma City bomb­ings. The ruins and detri­tus of civ­i­liza­tion tell much about the way [...]
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Knowledge in the Dumps

By Michael Becker | Published: November 9, 2006
What hap­pens to the arti­cles Wikipedia rejects? Most dis­ap­pear for­ever into the Recycle Bins of his­tory, but a few arti­cles have found a sec­ond life at The Wikipedia Knowledge Dump. The blog, cre­ated by Dr. Cliff Pickover, takes sub­mis­sions from peo­ple who are about to have their arti­cles tossed by the Wikipedia–something the site does [...]
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