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Friday 9 November

Bleak Financial News (17:02) - Near-panic atmosphere as US Federal Reserve chairman testifies before Congress Are you scared yet? I am.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 23 August

The Future of Music and the Loudness War (23:55) - http://spectrum.ieee.org/aug07/5429 An all-around good article about the history of sound compression and why most CD's released today just plain... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments

Friday 13 April

Retirement Savings (23:54) - Retirement Confidence Survey Overall, 40 percent of respondents said they are not currently saving for retirement while 34 percent said... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 16 March

Apple iRack (19:08) - YouTube linky I'm typically not a fan of MadTV, but this is too good to pass up.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 29 December

Absurd Grand Canyon Happenings (01:13) - How Old Is The Grand Canyon? Park Service Won't Say Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 10 November

On PHP and Maintainability (09:43) - Why is PHP Code Considered Hard To Maintain Why is PHP code considered hard to maintain? Is it the language... | 0 Trackbacks | 8 Comments

Tuesday 7 November

Another Reason to Upgrade to PHP 5.1.x or 5.2.x (09:04) - PHP / GCC / ICC Benchmarks If your hosting provider hasn't upgraded, show them these graphs. It is also worth... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Wednesday 26 July

The Onion Answers all Your Questions About the Accuracy of Wikipedia (02:47) - Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence America's finest news source never fails to deliver.... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments
The Onion Answers all Your Questions About the Accuracy of Wikipedia (02:47) - Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence America's finest news source never fails to deliver.... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments

Thursday 6 July

College Students Ignore University's Free Music Services (12:00) - Free, Legal, and Ignored... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 26 April

The Numbers On Alternative Fuels (13:16) - Crunching the Numbers on Alternative Fuels An interesting read for anyone interested in the feasibility of alternative fuels.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 24 March

Wikpedia Parody (13:02) - Uncyclopedia is a wiki parody of Wikipedia. Wikipedia critics will find it hilarious on principle. Others will love the satire.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 6 March

Student Wins Facebook.com Case Regarding Free Speech (12:47) - Student Wins Facebook.com Case at University of Central Florida It was only a matter of time before this happened. To... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Tuesday 21 February

Another Social Networking Site (21:05) - grou.ps has the goal to "provide a sharing platform for social groups." They have abstracted services such as photo and... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 20 January

RSS ATOM Aggregator List (23:38) - Comprehensive list of news aggregators There is something for everyone. Enjoy.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 21 December

When Not to Blog (09:31) - Teen Guilty Of Manslaughter After Online Confession The teen's blog entry was used as evidence to aid in his conviction... | 0 Trackbacks | 3 Comments

Tuesday 20 December

Rove Implicated in Santa Identity Leak (22:11) - Rove Implicated in Santa Identity Leak When Karl Rove was implicated in the latest controversy to hit Washington, The Onion... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Wednesday 7 December

Evolving Trends in Communication in Higher Ed (12:56) - If you are interested in how new technologies can assist in PR for higher education, you might be interested in... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 6 December

Using WIkis in Education (12:24) - Using Wikis in Education This site is dedicated for examples of how to use wikis in an educational environment. Oh,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 22 November

Where Does the Money Go? (20:29) - Hundert Makes a Lot of Money... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Tuesday 15 November

The Onion on Civil Rights (10:51) - What happens when The Onion, America's Finest News Source, writes a story on the passing of Rosa Parks? Now We... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
Drunken Hook-ups (10:19) - Today's link of the day comes from Fark. Since it is Fark, the comments are often better than the story... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 11 October

University President Suspends Faculty Senate (00:11) - The president of Texas A&M at Kingsville has suspended the faculty senate because they don't agree with him. Kingsville Democracy.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 4 October

More on Free WiFi in San Francisco (00:59) - S.F. Mayor Sees Wireless Service as a Basic Right ... although he gets rights and opportunities confused. As cool as... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 3 October

Ahhh Facebook (11:32) - Inside Higher Ed. story about Facebook... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 28 September

The Turmoil Engineers Face (09:53) - Confessions of an Engineering Washout... | 0 Trackbacks | 7 Comments

Wednesday 21 September

Another Inside Higher Ed Story (15:06) - Emory Declares War on Wash. U.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 18 September

CAS + Kerberos + Shibboleth (00:39) - CAS , Kerberos, and Shibb ... for future reference... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 31 August

Google Suggest (13:15) - Google Suggest I love AJAX.... | 0 Trackbacks | 5 Comments

Tuesday 23 August

Case Made the Princeton Review (20:55) - ranking Don't celebrate until you click the link :(... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 11 August

Interesting Story Out of Wisconsin (18:15) - Professors Behind Bars Only in institutions of higher learning can a convicted employee who has "repeated sexual contact with children...... | 0 Trackbacks | 6 Comments

Tuesday 9 August

Something Every Individual at Case Needs (22:58) - eBay link. Think we can convince the university to put in a bulk order?... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 28 July

Google Maps Meets the Freshman Class (18:01) - Joel Kraft just informed me of this gem. With all the Google Map craze, I don't know how this one... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Tuesday 26 July

Inside Higher Ed: The Next Hit Reality Show (23:27) - I just found this gem through FARK. Inside Higher Ed::The Next Hit Reality Show Be sure to read the comments.... | 0 Trackbacks | 4 Comments

Sunday 10 July

Maddox on Blogging (20:18) - Maddox on Blogging... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 15 June

Microsoft Sets Target on LAMPS (11:42) - http://news.com.com/Microsoft+looks+to+extinguish+LAMP/2100-1012_3-5746549.html?tag=cd.top Total cost of operating eh? I have a LAMPS server on my personal desktop and it has been running... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 8 June

Cool Calendar Functionality at UVM (11:34) - The University of Vermont has a cool calendar script that interfaces with their Oracle Calendar and returns the data in... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments