Yostivanich

“Stu­dents who choose Cengage’s rental option will get imme­di­ate access to the first chap­ter of the book elec­tron­i­cally, in e-book for­mat, and will have a choice of ship­ping options for the printed book. When the rental term — 60, 90, or 130 days — is over, stu­dents can either return the text­book or buy it.” Nice.

“Last night, Rep. Gene Green (D-TX) hosted a rowdy town hall meet­ing to dis­cuss health care reform. Fox’s local Hous­ton affil­i­ate reporter, Duarte Geraldino, reported that he talked to the par­tic­i­pants and found that “some atten­dees admit they don’t live in the dis­trict.” How did they get there? Geraldino noted “an inter­net cam­paign” by far right activists urg­ing their allies to attend and heckle Demo­c­ra­tic Rep­re­sen­ta­tives. Geraldino then aired a clip show­ing one par­tic­i­pant act­ing dis­re­spect­fully towards Rep. Green.” Another day another town hall.

“I know. One minute they’re telling us that Gawd cre­ated humans exactly as they are now, and all those hominin fos­sils are just apes, and the next, they’re telling us Homo erec­tus and Nean­der­tal are just Noah’s great-grandkids (he had a very com­pli­cated fam­ily, didn’t he?). Con­sis­tency is one of those triv­ial details that gets thrown out when you dis­miss human rea­son, I guess.”

Makes it easy to avoid get­ting an IP Address block.

“Retweet­ing is a great exam­ple of Twit­ter teach­ing us what it wants to be. The open exchange of infor­ma­tion can have a pos­i­tive global impact and the more effi­cient dis­sem­i­na­tion of infor­ma­tion across the entire Twit­ter ecosys­tem is some­thing we very much want to sup­port. That’s why we’re plan­ning to for­mal­ize retweet­ing by offi­cially adding it to our plat­form and Twitter.com.” Awesome.

“Palm did not say exactly how end users can opt out of these data-sharing ser­vices, nor did it fully explain why Palm would want to know which appli­ca­tions users have down­loaded and are running.”