Ego vs Ergo

Last week I attended the Free / Open-source Software Learning Centre's (FOSSLC) SummerCamp 2009. Among the many interesting, informative seminars was a talk on the Gdium Liberty, a (nearly) completely free and open source notebook computer: Besides the many advantages of open-source, it also happens to be solid-state and cleverly modular: the black protrusion below the ...

I recently discovered twtpoll.com, a free, no-hassle polling system originally designed for polling the twitterverse, though it certainly has promise outsite micro-blogging. Following from a recent discussion with a fellow twitter-er, Carlos--who abhors Twitter spam so much that I will refrain from using his Twitter handle for fear that he may be auto-followed--I created a poll ...

Last year I took an absolutely fascinating class with Dr Natasha Artemeva in the applied linguistics domain of rhetorical genre studies. In this class we discussed, essentially, the function(s) of language in different contexts. For example, we examined such things as tax reports, blog comments, and the construction of academic papers in mathematics. One thing that struck ...

In a recent correspondence published in the journal Nature (Nature 452, 530 (3 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/452530d; Published online 2 April 2008) titled "Give south Indian authors their true names", three scientists–Nalini, Jeevananthinee, and Sujatha–emplore the journal essentially to discontinue their requirement to give first and family names. This is due to the non-universal naming system used in most Western ...

Don't misunderstand me. I do want one, rather badly in fact. I covet the new MacBook Air. But I won't be buying one. This candid article on PuttingThingsOff summarizes my position almost exactly, thereby saving me the trouble of writing it for myself. I have an iBook G4, my primary computer; when I upgrade, it will ...