September 2011
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Data privacy 'should be taught in schools' →
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said that the importance of data privacy and access to official information should be embedded in school lessons.
The ICO is developing a research project to explore ways of making sure information rights issues are covered in primary and secondary education, to back up its stance.
» via Macworld UK
Um. Yeah.
August 2011
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Kid Rock, Lady Antebellum, Maroon 5 are NFL... →
Of course they are.
(The Black Eyed Peas must have an appearance on Good Morning America scheduled that day)
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I finally have my proof that Beyoncé is sexually active.
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“It held 12 songs. If you wanted more songs, you put in a cassette that held a...”
– Mobile Phones: What was daily life like before almost everyone had cell phones? - Quora (via iamdanw)
“Obama seems obsessed with wanting to lead the country in what he sees as a...”
– Bill Moyers (via azspot)
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“So in the DSK rape case, we’re supposed to believe that an African immigrant...”
– Sherry Wolf (via jessrosney)
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Jane's Affliction: How the Music Biz Sucked the... →
davebloom:
Biggest revelation: all of Jane’s Addiction’s greatest songs were written before the end of 1988 or so. With the possible exception of “Of Course” (certainly not one of their best), Ritual De Lo Habitual is composed of leftovers!
The ramifications are both impressive and thoroughly sad: they took just three years to compose two brilliant, innovative albums’ worth of material...
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Toddlers Understand Complex Grammar, Study Shows →
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Children are able to comprehend complex grammar at a younger age than previously believed, a new study shows.
When learning a language, young children must understand the meaning of words as well as how to combine them into a sentence to communicate meaning. Many 2-year-olds rarely combine more than two words together, saying “more juice,” for instance, but not yet forming full...
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“For the past several days, Apple’s stock has been rising high enough that...”
– What they’re “protecting” us from - Anil Dash
“If you have tenure and therefore think that your college would never get rid of...”
– Views: Get Out While You Can - Inside Higher Ed
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“90 percent of people in their studies don’t know how to use CTRL/Command F to...”
– Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don’t Know How to Use CTRL F - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic (via infoneer-pulse)
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British Libraries Push Back →
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Major research libraries in Britain have told the two largest journal publishers that they will not renew their “big deals” with them if they do not make significant real-terms price reductions.
Research Libraries UK, which includes the Russell Group university libraries, as well as Britain’s national libraries and Trinity College Library Dublin, have told Elsevier and...
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Court Says College Can Snoop On Students' Email →
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There have been plenty of cases where courts have said that it’s okay for an employer to snoop on (employer-provided) employee email accounts. And now there’s a case saying basically the same thing for colleges and universities. As long as they provided the email system, there’s apparently no violation of anti-snooping or data privacy laws.
» via TechDirt
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Fashion It So: 3.22 - The Most Toys →
sttngfashion:
I don’t know if we have a policy about log-rolling, but real quick before we dive in, this post is dedicated to my beloved co-blogger Anna Marquardt and her merry band of theater peeps who are THIS VERY EVEN’ opening a show in the New York International Fringe Festival, The Bobbed-Haired Bandit….
O.M.G.
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Tiger Beatdown: The Google+ Nymwars: Where... →
Google+ is not a charitable service run for the benefit of users. It, like scores of other free sites, like Facebook, like Tumblr, like Twitter, like Blogger, etc. is a profit-generating machine. The owners of the site make a profit from user content, and on sites like Google+ and Facebook, there’s also a big potential to make a profit through the direct commodification of user identities....
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