Links

Another batch of links for you. Things have quieted down, now that the US political theater is over for the year. Hopefully you’ll find some useful articles here. If you don’t read anything else, though, have a look at The Most Common Disease You’ve Never Heard Of. Truly worth a read.

Education:

• Ghostwritten Essays and the Problem of Cheating    16 November 2010, 8:26 am
• In-state tuition upheld for illegal immigrants    17 November 2010, 7:13 am

Labor:

• Survey of Women, Men in IT Shows Differing Views    17 November 2010, 10:04 am
• Demographic Future Is Now: Eastern Germany Confronts Skilled Labor Shortage    18 November 2010, 2:01 am
• Improving Economy Means Opportunities in IT    19 November 2010, 11:10 am

Library / Museum / Archive:

• Jaz drives, spiral notebooks, and SCSI: how we lose scientific data    15 November 2010, 7:11 am
• Preservation: E-Discovery’s Oft-Overlooked Price Driver    16 November 2010, 2:22 am
• Asian Art Museum reportedly in financial turmoil    16 November 2010, 5:46 am
• Saving Our Data From Digital Decay    17 November 2010, 10:04 am

Medical Technology:

• Color and shape of pills affects how patients feel about their medication    14 November 2010, 9:00 pm
• Randall Amster: The Most Common Disease You’ve Never Heard Of    15 November 2010, 4:51 am
• Video game-based therapy helps stroke patients recover study    15 November 2010, 11:00 pm
• The Battle Between Thoughts and Emotions in Persuasion    17 November 2010, 5:46 am
• Why you can listen at cocktail parties: Songbirds’ individual brain cells are tuned to particular sounds    17 November 2010, 8:00 am
• What you see changes where you hear: Exposure to light for only milliseconds alters perceived source of sound    17 November 2010, 5:00 pm
• Zapping nerves helps control high blood pressure    18 November 2010, 7:23 am
• How video games stretch the limits of our visual attention    18 November 2010, 8:00 am

Miscellany:

• Now you, too, can look like a cartoon or toy    8 July 2010, 10:35 pm

Politics:

• Push Michael Moore Off A Cliff: Health Insurance Whistleblower Wendell Potter Details How the Industry Attacked Michael Moore’s Film “Sicko”    16 November 2010, 10:44 am
• A Cry From Argentina: ‘Close Guantanamo’    17 November 2010, 7:18 am
• Shortcut Through the West Bank: German Rail Under Fire for Controversial Israeli Project    19 November 2010, 6:17 am

Privacy / Law:

• Britain could be jailed for data retention    17 November 2010, 3:03 am
• Caltrans cited by EPA for water pollution    17 November 2010, 10:26 am
• EFF Discusses the Future of Internet Privacy at UN Internet Governance Forum    17 November 2010, 1:54 pm
• EFF Brief: “Privacy” Protections for Corporations Undermine Government Transparency    17 November 2010, 5:16 pm
• Navigating Controversy: Google Launches Street View Germany    18 November 2010, 2:21 am
• Fla. woman: Debt collector harassed me on Facebook    18 November 2010, 4:15 pm
• Disciplined doctors receiving pharmaceutical funds    19 November 2010, 6:23 am
• Google agrees to delete UK personal data    19 November 2010, 8:26 am
• ECS Researcher Highlights Need for Transparency on the Web    19 November 2010, 11:12 am
• Stand Up Against TSA’s Invasive Security Procedures    19 November 2010, 11:12 am

Robotics:

• Robotic-assisted surgery appears safe for complicated pancreatic procedures    16 November 2010, 2:00 am
• ARMAR-III, the Robot That Learns Via Touch    19 November 2010, 11:11 am

Security:

• E-Discovery Crashes the Computer Forensics Show    18 November 2010, 1:05 am
• Report Looks at How China Meddled With the Internet    19 November 2010, 11:10 am
• Virus Could Ruin Many Industries’ Control Systems    19 November 2010, 11:10 am
• U.S. Sees ‘Huge’ Cyber Threat in the Future    19 November 2010, 11:11 am
• Cyber-Security Job Development Challenges Highlighted in Survey    19 November 2010, 11:11 am

Social Media:

• Facebook Credits starting to make some real money    16 November 2010, 7:35 am
• Kentucky Bar Proposes Regulation of Attorneys’ Social Media    17 November 2010, 1:08 am
• Social Media: So Much Data, So Little Guidance    19 November 2010, 11:21 am
• N.Y. Lawyer Gets Jail in Dead Sea Scrolls Case    19 November 2010, 11:21 am

Technology:

• In Data Portability Deathmatch, Users Lose Out    15 November 2010, 8:48 pm
• Scientists propose one-way trips to Mars    16 November 2010, 7:35 am
• Benicia cell phone crackdown upsets students, parents    16 November 2010, 7:35 am
• ABA on Collision Course With New Technology    17 November 2010, 1:08 am
• Israeli Researchers Pursue Brain-Operated Computing    17 November 2010, 10:06 am
• Data protectionism: Serfing the web | The Economist    18 November 2010, 8:21 am
• What if we used poetry to teach computers to speak better?    18 November 2010, 8:00 pm
• Google and Money! by Charles Petersen | The New York Review of Books    19 November 2010, 9:28 am
• Rensselaer Team Shows How to Analyze Raw Government Data    19 November 2010, 11:12 am

-D