…to give a woman the skills to respond gracefully to some nonsense. All the “bless his heart, but that man ain’t right”s in the world don’t quite cover it when the Family Action Council’s David Fowler gives an interview about reproductive health-related bills in T...

Interesting that ClaimID (my current OpenID provider) are considering a subscription model, ClaimID nears 75k users.  As they say in their blog post: Unfortunately, running ClaimID is not cheap, so we’re going to strive for a model that is both sustainable and secure. I find myself increasing...

This is related to yesterday's blog Public Access and PEG channels have been around for over three decades. Watching the way phone company lobbiest influence legislators you might think these people have been living in a dictatorship in a far off place on the globe. They seem to have no idea on the ...

A Visual Basic 6 (ugh) runtime file distributed with our internal Access database has been killed by a recent Windows security update. It's hard to gather support information (especially since VB6 is about 8.7 million years old) and so I was wondering if anyone out there can help me track down a mor...

Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Healthcare Equality Index - “a joint project of GLMA and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. The HEI provides a quality indicator for healthcare related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, beginning with the hospital industry. The survey foc...

To the National Theatre for David Hare’s one-man show on Berlin. I wasn’t at all sure what to expect, but I didn’t expect this. Quite simply, it was embarrassingly, exasperatingly awful. Hare, in person, is a fan of the southern English amateur/eccentric shtick. He makes much play ...

There’s a brief article in Webology that’s worth taking a look at for librarians and open-access advocates. In brief, the author asked a bunch of physicists and astronomers about how they prefer to access materials. No big surprise; they’d rather grab it online. What is curious is ...

Openness: Fostering Sharing, Collaboration, and Open Access to Knowledge and Resources Notes from a discussion session held at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference Feb 25, 2009. Notes provided by Jeremy Donald, Trinity University. Speaker(s)     * Cynthia Golden, Vice President, EDUCAUSE  ...

Obama has appointed Julius Genachowski to head the FCC, which I think is pretty good. Genachowski is on the record as supporting network neutrality. Also, there’s a fair amount of eco-friendliness and tech-savviness in his background — he headed up the Obama team’s internet campaig...

Rarely do you see things put so susinctly. Sometimes I could just kiss Paul Graham, but that would be kind of weird and creepy. :) He captures the inevitability of the TV vs. Internet war, the sheer obviousness and the magic and slaps it all down in a few hundred words like it was meant to be. From:...