Kinks in foreign-student tracking system. A Web-based system set up by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service to keep tabs on foreign students is causing frustration among administrators across the country.  [CNET News.com]
9:59:29 AM  #   your two cents []

From Boing Boing Blog: Waltz for cranes. "Amazing mini-documentary about a choreographer named Anne Troake who designed a waltz for construction cranes and then had three master crane-drivers execute it. It's totally hypnotic." 9MB QuickTime Link
9:57:45 AM  #   your two cents []

Wow. From the Paris blog: "The investigation in to the Joola disaster shows that the the boat that sunk off the coast of Senegal last year killed more people than the Titanic." [Le Monde]  ... Some 1,863 lost their lives, on board a boat licensed to carry 550 people. But in the West, we barely registered this non-Western catastrophe as such. Most likely, we don't even remember the name Joola -- or it only very vaguely rings a bell. In contrast, the Western world, especially the US, is rivetted by seven deaths on the Columbia. This is in no way to diminish those brave deaths, but rather, to wonder about our sense of proportion and self-focus. Those off Senegal also had children and treasured friends and family and partners, hopes and fears, special lives.
9:57:00 AM  #   your two cents []

Bertrand Russell. "Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true." [Quotes of the Day] ... maybe we could add politics to that list, as well.
9:51:34 AM  #   your two cents []

The Boston Globe has a great cover story on Google entitled A Nation of Voyeurs: "How the Internet search engine Google is changing what we can find out about one another - and raising questions about whether we should."
9:50:32 AM  #   your two cents []

NASA servers hacked [InfoWorld: Top News]
9:46:54 AM  #   your two cents []

Shuttle disaster affects aerospace stocks. [spacetoday.net]
9:45:06 AM  #   your two cents []

Hey -- Hunter hasn't gone away, you know: Hunter S. Thompson. The godfather of gonzo says 9/11 caused a "nationwide nervous breakdown" -- and let the Bush crowd loot the country and savage American democracy. [Salon.com]
9:44:28 AM  #   your two cents []

Producer of Comdex Shows Is About to Seek Bankruptcy. Crippled by the plunge of technology industries and cutbacks in corporate travel, the Key3Media Group is planning to file for bankruptcy.  [New York Times: Technology]
12:41:39 AM  #   your two cents []