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March 13, 2004
Marthat Stewart reaction -- phase 2
There's interesting reading about the reaction to Martha Stewart's conviction, thanks to Rex Hammock's weblog: Short memory-span theater and What he said.
I wonder if there will be as much reaction about WorldCom's restatment of $74 billion in profits over the last two years?
Posted by eubie at 2:44 PM permalink
Laptops not ready for schools yet
GlennLog: More Realistic Report on Laptops in Schools
He writes: This report from Pennsylvania shows that laptops in schools are a mixed blessing in a more realistic analysis than the constantly glowing but entirely anecdotal stream of news from Maine. In PA, computers are tools, but they also require care and feeding which takes time. And students forget to bring laptops 50 percent of the time when they're actually needed to projects in class. (This would argue that students don't need the laptops at home all the time and perhaps they don't all individually need laptops -- more of a pooled system could be better.)
Interesting difference compared with Wired New's stories about Maine's experiment with laptops in schools.
Posted by eubie at 2:25 PM permalink
Broadband share
Los Angeles Business from bizjournals: Broadband share. San Diego is tops on list with 52 percent share.
Posted by eubie at 9:27 AM permalink
Great Hubble shots
A slide show of some spectacular shots from the Hubble Space Telescope, from Australia's news.com. Works better with faster access.
Scientific American.com: Hubble's Most Penetrating View Yet of the Early Universe
Also Wired News reported Friday that U.S. Senators are asking NASA to re-think plans to not repair the telescope and let it fail in a few years.
Posted by eubie at 9:08 AM permalink