Archives for: September 2006
Sep
27
Judith Donath, "Signals, Truth and Design" (iSchool DLS)
berkeley, research, podcasts, education, iSchoolToday, [Judith Donath][1] from the [MIT Media Lab][2] gave the first
[iSchool][3] Distinguished Lecture of the 2006-2007 academic year, "Signals, Truth and
Design". Here is the abstract for her talk and the audio is linked
below:
> Much of what we… more »
Sep
27
My new running shoes rock... they're [New Balance 809s](http://www.roadrunnersports.com/rrs/products/NBA1262/):
I just did a delight of a little run near Piedmont (route tool courtesy of ). It's hella hilly, but very pretty and very fun (too bad… more »
Sep
26
Maryland patches its voting system
elections, certification/testing, reform, standards, news, policy, legal##### (I started writing this as a comment on Ben's post... then realized I would be using way too many links!)
[Ben Adida] (now a postdoc at Harvard) points out ([*"Fixing Bugs and Breaking Certification"*](http://benlog.com/articles/2006/09/26/fixi… more »
Sep
26
[Heather Meeker] from [Greenberg Traurig] spoke yesterday at [Pam Samuelson]'s [open source class]... and confirmed what I had feared: [GPLv3] is [dead] on [arrival].
**Later:** Oh yeah, she also said that *SCO v. IBM* is totally irrelevant to the GP… more »
Sep
22
Here's my (preliminary) design entry for the UC Berkeley [School of Information] T-Shirt. It's all vectorized, so can be any size and it's simply a two-color design.
There are a lot of other people who are vastly more graphically-oriented workin… more »
Sep
18
The Dangers of Blurring Lines in Academia...
copyright, chilling effects, patents, politics, friends, policy, legal, threats, education, iSchool[Lilia](http://liliamanguy.com/), a recent Master's graduate from here at the [iSchool](http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/), recounts her frustrating experience with her Master's project, her adviser and intellectual property associated with her project:… more »
Sep
17
One of my favorite cooks and restauranteurs is Mario Batali.
I'm not exactly sure why, but I use to not really like Batali. Maybe it's because he uses a lot of meat and we don't eat much of that around here. Well, after eating one of the best mea… more »
Sep
12
[Avi Rubin], the director of my grant ([ACCURATE]) has an amazing account of his day as a poll worker in Baltimore, MD: [*"My day at the polls - Maryland primary '06"*](http://avi-rubin.blogspot.com/2006/09/my-day-at-polls-maryland-primary-06.html). His… more »
Sep
12
Wagner's comments on VVPR
elections, certification/testing, reform, secrecy, privacy, politics, berkeley, problems, friends, usabilityDavid Wagner has posted [follow-up comments][1] responsive to questions submitted to him by the House Admininstration and Science Committees. These questions werein response to his [superb testimony][2] on the hill in July.
[1]: http://www.cs.berkel… more »
Sep
11
If you know [Judd], you know [this is profound]:
> We?re all just learning the word terrorist.
[this is profound]: http://www.technotaste.com/blog/my-september-11th-2001/
[Judd]: http://www.technotaste.com/
When I first read this, I read it… more »
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