The seasonal change is the topic for "This Week at Hilton Pond" for 1-7 November 2007. To view this latest photo essay, please visit Hilton Pond.

Aeronautics Competitions for High School and College Students and 21st Century Explorer Podcast Competition

2007 American Book Award Winner and Author Dan Cassidy of How the Irish Invented Slang will be meeting Spike Slattery's grandson. Spike was the guy who first used the word jazz in front of Scoop Gleeson at a reading in Sonoma, CA where the old jazz and gin-i-ker came back to life.

The future of the music business lays in a simple formula: 1 Artist + 1 Mgr = 1 Enterprise. ~ John Hartmann

www.unitedhollywood.com

Use freeware called "Eulalyzer" to give a quick analysis of a EULA before you finish the installation.

What is PhilaPlace? An online resource chronicling the history, culture, and architecture of two of Philadelphia’s oldest immigrant and African American neighborhoods: South Philadelphia and Northern Liberties/Kensington. PhilaPlace MP3 file posted at WHYY's 6th SQ.

Book Review: Basile's Tale of Tales, also called the Pentamerone, is a collection of fifty stories--chiefly complex tales of magic, popularly known as fairy tales--published in Naples in 1634-1636.

Book Review

The federal government is inviting comments (at http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/documents/20071026.htm) on policies that lead to the intrusion of institutional review boards (IRBs) into oral history research. This provides a rare opportunity for members of our profession to register their objections. I urge every historian who conducts oral history, or is responsible for students who use oral history methods, to respond to this request and express their concerns about the inappropriate and often arbitrary way this policy has been applied to history research in many colleges and universities. You have until December 26, 2007 (send comments to the mailing and email addresses listed at the end of this post).

DOS commands

Apparently the Ohio Education Association has sent a memo discouraging teachers from using social networking sites. I think this is the wrong message. How about: "Never post anything online you would not want to see on the front page of your state's largest newspaper."

New Word Womenomics - Women 'Becoming Valued' by Businesses, Think Tank Says

Databases for Educators: NY Times Lesson Plan Archive; Gateway to Educational Materials; ASN State Standards Viewer. The ASN provides tools and databases that enable access to and interaction with the authoritative collection of learning and content standards from states and national content groups.

FAQ and Oil Spill Training opportunities and action alerts, and links to background about the spill and cleanup and restoration efforts.

"the sole national point of contact for reporting all oil, chemical, radiological, biological, and etiological discharges into the environment anywhere in the United States and its territories."

WOW - first one onto the BLOG! Congratulations to the Goodpasture Christian School from the great state of Tennessee. Does your K-12 School or School District have a website? Can you find it in the Educational CyberPlayGround K-12 Directory?

From IATSE Local 470, the local section of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) labor union in Wisconsin.

E-Loan co-founder Chris Larsen's online marketplace matches lenders and borrowers. Banks and "payday" outfits alike will be watching closely

Norman Mailer, died in November 2007.

Two consumer advocacy groups, the Center for Digital Democracy and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, say the social- networking sites should offer consumers the chance to have their data excluded from the advertising plans, and should fully inform consumers how their personal information will be used. The groups wrote a letter to the FTC Monday asking the agency to look into the matter.

The hack required little more than tools freely available on the internet, and Egerstad maintains he broke no laws. In fact, he is confident the email accounts he gained access to were already compromised by other hackers, so his efforts in fact prevented them from continuing their spying.

Experts have said 80 percent of successful intrusion into our government computer systems can be attributed to software errors or poor software quality. Many software products have poorly written or have poorly configured security features. Computers and networks without operating firewalls, up-to-date virus and password protection are invitations for disasters. DHS computers were subjected to penetration by Chinese hackers because we failed to install and monitor the necessary "intrusion-detection systems."

As temperatures at the underground site will stay at 15 degrees Celsius all year, air conditioning systems will not be necessary while groundwater can be used to cool the servers.

"This reserve reflects [TJX's] estimation of probable losses in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles based on information available to [TJX] and includes an estimation of total potential cash liabilities, from pending litigation, proceedings, investigations and other claims, as well as legal and other costs and expenses, arising from the computer intrusion," TJX said in its SEC filing.