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Interesting it comes from the UK

I found some emails in my outbox that I guess didn’t generate any responses, but I still think they are interesting so will post them here…

How the US government secretly reads your email
Secret orders forcing Google and Sonic …

The Great Firewall Of America

PROTECT IP Renamed E-PARASITES Act; Would Create The Great Firewall Of America
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111026/12130616523/protect-ip-renamed-e-parasites-act-would-create-great-firewall-america.shtml

Thanks to Erik for this link!

This would appear to be more of the insidious efforts of the wealthy to make law that only applies to others, …

From here on, read in reverse order…

I started this blog today and went through my email to pull out things I wanted to post (I looked at my inbox on my gmail account, so only those emails that someone responded to got posted here). I didn’t …

A path for the future…

The return of a zero-sum world
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/07/26/the_return_of_a_zero_sum_world/index.html

We are already well down the path to third-world status, this article is a road map to get the rest of the way there……

Another thoughtful article

Some good stuff today…

Why we should protect those accused of rape
http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/07/27/dsk_kobe_assange_flatley/index.html

Initially the article sounds outlandish, but it makes a very good point. Very analogous to the loosy-goosy way people wind up on sexual predator lists (I read …

Not just grade inflation, now credential inflation

The Master’s as the New Bachelor’s
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/education/edlife/edl-24masters-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

It seems clear to me that we are having an education bubble exactly the same as the housing bubble. When I started my MBA more than 15 years ago it was purported to …

Doomed to repeat

If students fail history, does it matter?
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/26/education.history.soboroff/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1

I took the quiz they had and while I got 100%, I was left to guess on 3 or 4 of the questions and only the context allowed me to narrow down …

Something we get to start thinking about soon…

The hard truth about getting old
Sixty isn’t the new 40, and 80 isn’t the new 60. I know it. You know it. So why do we buy into it?
http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/08/03/lillian_rubin_on_ageism/index.html

I have read several articles about the idea of …