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Getting a PhDDD! by cogdogblog

This time we went up into the hills to the south of Mekelle, starting with a long slog uphill to reach the plateau - fortunately it was all flat or downhill after that!

We met some kids taking cattle to market, some of the whom must only have been 6 or 7:

In looking for interesting technologies, sometimes you have to forge past what at looks like something hardly relevant to education, much the case with what I think is a powerful form of web video technology in Veeple. I stumpled upon this literally about two links of some casual wandering down my RSS feeds.

Last year John Bird and John Fortune did one of their brilliant skits for the South Bank Show, talking about the financial markets. Spot on the money, if you'll forgive the pun, given the meltdown of recent weeks.

I don't know I've anything significant to say about it, except to make the obvious point that money is information. It always has been, but more than ever it's obvious today. Money is numbers on spreadsheets and databases - bits stored in computer memory.

And, therefore, understanding money requires understanding information.

From the NYT: Don’t Buy That Textbook, Download It Free

On the Today Programme

An art historian says he has found that painters who made their money specialising in portraits of famous people chose to redress the balance of power by reproducing their own facial characteristics within those of their powerful sitters.

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John Mueller, Department of Political Science, Ohio State University wrote a terrific paper outlining a cost benefit analysis of US homeland security earlier this year.

When you type some keywords into a search box, be prepared for a naive assumption that you are searching an entire web site.