Academe Links February 16, 2007

Senator to Ban Wikipedia from schools with Federal Funding http://www.educationfutures.com/2007/02/15/us-senator-ban-wikipedia-from-schools/

An Honest Conversation About Alcohol

http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/02/16/drinking

Has MIT lost its sense of humor?

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/02/16/mit_prank_no_joke_to_authorities/

Social Networking

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/1879/do-they-have-a-user-for-you

The Codex of Terrible Higher Ed Marketing Part 1 - Worst Promotional Videos http://higheredchat.blogspot.com/2007/02/codex-of-terrible-higher-ed-marketing.html

Speaker Pelosi's Blog

http://speaker.gov/blog/

Excerpt of Feynman on the pleasures of finding things out http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/2007/02/richard_feynman.html

Blossoms, inc. [in my misspent youth I worked for the guy who invented Secretaries Day while president of FTD. He was impeached for it. How much have florists made since on that any-flower-will-do day?] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/08/AR2007020802521.html

Domestic e-mail spying via Now on PBS

http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/307/index.html

UNICEF Report on Child Wellbeing in Wealthy Countries http://www.unicef-icdc.org/presscentre/presskit/reportcard7/rc7_eng.pdf

Resource: First Monday

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_2/

Wikipatterns

http://www.wikipatterns.com/display/wikipatterns/Wikipatterns

Students, Facebook, Valentines Day

http://blogs.dailyillini.com/opinions/2007/02/15/ugly-valentines-day-breakup-at-unc-attended-by-hundreds-thanks-to-facebook/

22 Ways to Reduce Eye Strain at Your Computer http://www.ipnlighting.com/blog/2007/02/22-ways-to-reduce-eye-strain-at-your.asp

R. C. Rybnikar

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