Sunday, February 20, 2005

SUSE Awarded EAL4 Certification [Slashdot:] 7:46:16 PM      Google It!.

Mobile Phone with PC running Linux 2.6 [Slashdot:] 7:43:55 PM      Google It!.

California Drivers Can Tank Up WIth Hydrogen [Slashdot:] 9:01:57 AM      Google It!.

Fish shrinkage threatens survival. The shrinking size of fish due to their overexploitation has dire consequences for the recovery of depleted stocks, scientists say. [BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition] interesting example of explotation of a niche as opposed to maximizing sustained yield of a niche.  The article describes genetic adaptation inside an ecosystem of fish and fishers where the strategies for natural resource development of fixed assets like minerals is quite differenct from the natural resource development of living ecosystems.  A difference not unlike the hunter-gather perspective versus the farming perspective where the famrming perspective values the location more over the long run and the hunter gatherer just moves on hoping for another niche to expoloit. 9:00:06 AM      Google It!.

A Textbook Case of a School in a Spiral. Enrollment is down, tuition is up, and at St. Teresa elementary school in Queens, the end is near. By By ANDY NEWMAN. [NYT > Education] 8:46:39 AM      Google It!.

Usability in E-Learning - Michael J. Miller, Learning Circuits. While a large number of organizations have adopted e-learning programs, far fewer have addressed the usability of their learning applications. More attention should be devoted to assuring the usability of e-learning applications if organizations are to fu [Online Learning Update] 8:39:57 AM      Google It!.