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The New York Times reports:

“American universities have spent at least $100 million on Web-based course offerings, according to Eduventures, an education research firm in Boston.
Now the groves of academe are littered with the detritus of failed e-learning start-ups as those same universities struggle with the question of how to embrace online education but not hemorrhage money in the process.”

Looking on the bright side, as the article points out at least one of the more interesting sites, fathom, is giving away a lot of its course material for free.

I would argue that e-learning can only work if it uses the communication facilities available to encourage learning through doing and sharing with others instead of just pushing course materials.movie just friendsfucking movies lesbianlesbian love moviesmovies lesbian schoolgirlmovies long sexmovie stars male nakedmovies hardcore max freescene nude movieold reviews moviemovie playboy24 streaming pornographyadelaide sexof age sexual consentsex interactive 3dadult porn videosminutes porn free 15teens 18free sex 89 videos Map

You may be dismayed that the Encyclopædia Britannica now charges for access, but don’t despair! Not only is there a version you can access for free – some argue the quality of its articles is better than the “dumbed down” articles you find in the Encyclopaedia today. There’s just three problems – this version is OCRed and contains numerous typos, it doesn’t allow keyword searching or have hyperlinking between articles, and it dates back to 1911.sixteen less little candles asin allie analalaska offender sexporn couples amatureaishwarya rai pornswinger amature sexporn allinternalsex swingers adult Map

A site has emerged that allows you to enter the New York Times’ website by generating a random account each time.

Sure this is handy, but is using it wise? The NYT’s privacy policy says they only use the information they gather for anonymously aggregated demographics for advertisers and to serve up more targeted banner ads. You only get emailed if you give the NYT permission when you register.

If this information helps the NYT’s website to become profitable isn’t it better to make that small sacrifice of privacy? After all, if it remains loss-making, the NYT might end up reducing the amount of its information it offers and that would be a great loss to the Internet community…

North American viewers you have a treat in store – I have been watching a new drama based on John Galsworthy’s Forsyte Saga – a late Victorian novel – and my wife and I have both enjoyed it.

It isn’t Great Art but it is eminently watchable with strongly drawn characters, a straightforward and meaty plot (and, of course, great frocks!). It also marks the welcome return to the small screen of one of my favourite actresses, Barbara Flynn, who Brits may remember from Cracker and The Beiderbecke Affair.

Now that our appetite for Galsworthy has been whetted, we may go on to rent the much-famed 1967 BBC drama drawn from the same material at greater length. It is also nice to know that it is downloadable as plain text via Project Gutenberg.

Lots more information on the Forsyte Sagas is provided here.
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Not that one would wish to criticise the academic rigour of Laurentian University, but… this piece of research came to my attention.

Experiences of spiritual visitation and impregnation: potential induction by frequency-modulated transients from an adjacent clock.

“A left-handed Roman Catholic female adolescent with a history of early brain trauma reported nightly visitations by a sentient being…”

The not-for-profit “Innocence Project” (which I found out about through a This American Life radio programme) is a fascinating enterprise. They fund appeals for people who say they have been wrongfully convicted where DNA evidence could prove their innocence. So far more than 100 people have had successful re-trials and there is a huge backlog of similar cases.

The radio programme highlighted two chilling cases where people have been coerced into confessing by the police including one where a 14 year old was persuaded to confess to the murder of his own sister. It turns out that in the US it is perfectly legal for the police to invent incriminating evidence in an interrogation – so the child came to believe that he must have done it even though he didn’t remember anything…section tax credits 179 2007union acheva creditremortgage add adverse http url creditadverse http mortgage remortgage loan creditcredit agriguard credit union air federalschool accredited home programscards credit airline reward Map

I realise the timing will be difficult for some (it’s in UK time, of course) and the notice is a little last minute but Groening is one of my heroes and because BBC 6 Music (which is hosting the chat) is all but unknown in the UK there is a good chance you could ask him questions if you wanted to (instead of getting stuck in a queue behind thousands of groupies).

I’ll be asking him about his “Life in Hell” series, which came before the Simpsons and I really enjoyed.

On the anniversary of Salon’s launch of Salon Premium (which now has 36,000 subscribers), one of the world’s largest gaming sites, Gamespot, has launched “Gamespot Complete” at $4.95 a month or $19.95 a year. Unfortunately, this means that with Gamespot “Basic” (free) you won’t be able to see game reviews for more than a week after initial publication. Still, I hope it works, as the Internet media industry badly needs more examples of successful subscription services…additional student loanambassador loanaccount online chase bank loan access78 loan add on ruleadvice student on loans payingadvance 1000 loan paydayrule a loan 78th foraces loans student0 mortgage downpayment loans1hour day pay loansister russian baby fucking brotherhairy timea atkunderage free post teento teens moms teach how fucklactating fetish breastssquirting orgasams wet sex stories wetvintage nipples giantanal pussy insertions and Map

A brief think piece with some interesting figures in it from Atlantic Monthly about how globalisation might help poor countries if the West actually practiced what it preached with free trade.

“In the Uruguay Round of tariff reductions, concluded in 1994, the West pledged to reduce agricultural subsidies by 36 percent; in return, the developing countries would lower their tariffs on agricultural imports.

The developing countries met their part of the bargain by halving their average tariffs. The developed countries reneged: subsidies have in recent years made up almost 40 percent of the value of Western farm output—about the same as when Uruguay started.

Of the $90 billion spent on crop supports over the past five years, some $60 billion went to the top 10 percent of recipients—Fortune 500 companies, city-dwelling farm owners, and big agribusiness.”