Mike Smith, the singer and keyboard player for '60s British rockers the Dave Clark Five, died of pneumonia this morning outside of London.

Ajaxonomy's del.icio.us Spy - Released! By David Hurth - Posted on January 27th, 2008 The application allows you to see the latest bookmarks being added to del.icio.us so that you can find great new sites. The application also includes links to help make it easy to share what you find with others.

Leap year explained and why the leap second is considered harmful.

Aeronautics Competition for High School Students Participating students must be in grades 9-12 or in their freshman year of college. NASA Space Settlement Design Contest

to Cox Digital Cable subscribers in Fairfax County and the Fredericksburg region through Cox.

Open Content Alliance a massive amount of freely available content -- over 47,000 live concerts! Over 114,000 movies! Over 230,000 audio recordings! And over 350,000 texts.

I am the Very Model of a Usenet Personality Song by Tom Holt 1998 and The Element Song by Tom Lehrer.There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium, And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium, Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

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Microsoft pledge excluding primary competitors. Yesterday's media briefing by Microsoft on its its pledge to release interoperability information for flagship products contained little actual news. Over the years Microsoft has made multiple similar pledges and they at times proved to be detrimental rather than beneficial for interoperability. Examining the terms of the Microsoft's latest action shows no major change of policy.Regrettably, the lack of substance in the pledge and the timing suggest that Microsoft is primarily hoping for positive media coverage and not an examination of the substance of their limited interoperability release.

GO NAVY GO!!!

Hillary Clinton has worn the traditional clothing of countries she has visited.

UPDATE K-12 Newsletter SUBSCRIPTION** ECP wants you to get the K-12 Newsletter and welcomes new subscribers. Sign up to Educational CyberPlayGround Blog and start getting K-12 Newsletters Today. http://blog.edu-cyberpg.com/

Book Reviews of Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke. By Giselinde Kuipers. The Music of Bill Monroe. By Neil V. Rosenberg and Charles K. Wolfe. Living by Stories: A Journey of Landscape and Memory. By Harry Robinson.

We need a show of force. BRING YOUR INSTRUMENTS. We want a visual display of artists everywhere in the Capitol demonstrating that the Performance Rights Act is important to musicians. Big corporate radio is the only medium that refuses to pay performers royalties for their hard work. You do the work, you should be fairly paid. Bring your instruments. National Association of Broadcasters

Oscar Winners Sunday Night Feb 24

NetHappenings - Educational CyberPlayGround - Women's History Month, Women in Science Special Edition, Dorothy Denning,Disk Encryption Attacks, PGP, Exaflop One million trillion ‘flops’ per second,

EdInfo Notices Inviting Applications (February 22, 2008)Recent grant opportunities from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) include... * Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers Program -- CFDA# 84.128G * International Research and Studies Program -- CFDA# 84.017A * Partnerships in Character Education Program -- CFDA# 84.215S

Three hundred people die from cardiac arrest each day while students go to classes. Furthermore, about 900 people in the United States die from cardiac arrest every day, making it the largest cause of death among Americans. The best way to reduce the number of deaths cardiac arrest claims is to train more people how to give CPR and how to use Automatic External Defibrillators (AED). Teenagers comprise a large group of the population that are often uneducated on these skills. Preparing the next generation through CPR/AED training is quite literally a matter of life and death.

Ed Review February 15, 2008 ...a bi-weekly update on U.S. Department of Education activities relevant to the Intergovernmental and Corporate community and other stakeholders

NATIVE VILLAGE OPPORTUNITIES AND WEBSITES - Apology to Australia's Indigenous Peoples House of Representatives Parliament House, Canberra. "Think 22nd Century Linguistic Rights" What Language Should a Nation Officially Call Its Own? Imperialism to Colonization Strategies of Rule. What is humanitarianism in a colonial context and you can start questioning the arrogance of colonialism.

Upcoming Education Events: GLOBE at Night and NASA/NSTA Web Seminars. NOVA Ape Genius. Space Weather News. MASA Do you know who's orbiting the moon?

ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom At middle/high school level ... I just wish teachers would catch up with online, subscription tools. At the public library we often encounter the same misunderstanding that database resources aren't "books" or periodicals" even when in full text with complete citations. Digital Literacy Is Knowing How We Store What We Know. It is irresponsible for educational institutions not to teach new knowledge technologies such as Wikipedia." I've seen a lot of cases where people summarily dismiss any use of Wikipedia.

An insidious computer virus recently discovered on digital photo frames has been identified as a powerful new Trojan Horse from China that collects passwords for online games -- and its designers might have larger targets in mind.

That of course means big increases in incremental advertising revenues for the Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant. Though Google's primary revenue driver remains online advertising, the company has never separated out its mobile revenues from those of traditional computer-based browsers.

How does the delay work? Exactly as the AP and the EFF have claimed: TCP reset packets. These are generated from Comcast's network management hardware and tell the uploading computer that some sort of error has developed in the connection and that it needs to start over.

This is a HUGE victory for those of us who believe you're supposed to share knowledge not give it to publishers to horde. Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences adopted a policy this evening that requires faculty members to allow the university to make their scholarly articles available free online.

[ECP] Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings News -- Have documents the world needs to see? We protect your identity while maximizing political impact << Wikileaks have web sites around the world and are looking for editors. They are concentrating on transparency of institutions and governments, especially anything that has political consequences.

so many more college courses

Hallmark Slaughter House sends this down cows meat to the school lunch programs. Mad Cow Disease. Animal Cruelty.

The 87-page Consolidated Indigenous Shadow Report, which has been prepared with testimony from a number of individuals, covers issues such as: environmental racism, border injustices, the destruction of sacred places, violence against women, and most tellingly, the “overwhelming disparities in income, life expectancy, poverty and unemployment” in what can only be described as a system of Apartheid and forced assimilation “where Indigenous people are warehoused in poverty and neglect, their only option being to abandon their lands, families, languages and cultures to search for a better life.” Also learn about the Shadow Wolves.

Jesus Loves You But Everyone Else Thinks You're and A$$hole copyright 2007 TJR & Kathy Barrett from CD "Another Roll of the Dice"

1000 SEARCH ENGINES & The Invisible Web - THE HIDDEN NET - Specialized Search Engines

Karen Ellis - Educational CyberPlayGround involved with this grammy winning documentary. Standing in the Shadows of Motown WebQuest - Find All the Funk Brothers - Carla Benson and Al Slutsky.

Indie Musician AdvocateMarking CD Baby's first decade, founder Derek Sivers and his company continue their ascent. HOW TO MAKE IT IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS - HOW TO LEGALLY SELL DOWNLOADS OF COVER SONGS

2008 Blues 50th Grammy Award Winners

Philadelphia International Records, William Powell, The O'Jays Last July, Goldwasser filed suit. A few days later, Asbury finally admitted that PIR owed the sisters over $400,000. But Goldwasser enlisted an accountant, who discovered that Powell's estate was actually owed more than $1 million.

The first known recording of Ginsberg reading the poem was thought to be March 18, 1956, at a notorious performance in Berkeley, Calif. Until now. Also read and hear Howl 2 Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Howl, Reed College, Cordley Coit

NetHappenings - story telling: media consolidation, Outfoxed examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news.

K-12 Newsletter A fowl prank closed a Philadelphia high school today, canceling classes for 3,600 students.

Whales, Mr. Splashy Pants, japanese fisheries whaling ship

We are now accepting applications for the Native American Astronomy Immersion Experience (NAAIE). This is a five day observation experience open to any Native undergraduate interested in astronomy and/or physics.

An anti-indigenous propagand film that claims there are no traditional Indigenous cultures left in the world. Total Crap!

At the International Technology Education Association National Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, Morgan will present during the Program Excellence General Session. The session will take place on Feb. 21, 2008, at 9:00 a.m.

In a reference to his American ancestry, Obama writes "while one of my great-great-grandfathers, Christopher Columbus Clark, had been a decorated Union soldier, his wife's mother was rumored to have been a second cousin of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy."

Stanley Ann Dunham, Obama's mother and a strong-willed, unconventional member of the Mercer Island High School graduating class of 1960.

K-12 Teacher Award Recognizing Our Colleagues Who Are Making A Difference!

In a direct slap in the face to consumers, tech industry giants including Microsoft, AT&T, and Verizon are frantically engaged in an effort to kill pro-consumer provisions in a data breach notification bill currently being considered by the Indiana State Senate.

Science: NOVA, Space Weather, NASA, President e-budget, Device Gives New Meaning to "Power Walking"

Lost Melodies - Warner Brothers had a certain experimental streak when it came to the Loss Leaders.

K-12 Science The Educational Materials section of NASA's Web site offers classroom activities, educator guides, posters and other types of resources that are available for use in the classroom. Materials are listed by type, grade level and subject. The following items are now available for downloading. How Does The Brain Work?

How did Ernst Leitz II and his staff get away with it? A tale of courage, integrity and humility that is only now coming to light, some 70 years after the fact. The Leica is the pioneer 35mm camera. From a nitpicking point of view, it wasn't the very first still camera to use 35mm movie film, but it was the first to be widely publicized and successfully marketed.

DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 29 November 2007—Lawsuits have been dismissed and issues surrounding distribution of eAudiobooks have been resolved, according to Recorded Books and NetLibrary, the parties involved.

[EDInfo] Teaching Resources: African American History, Earth Science Visualizations and More

Space Weather News, "Student Questions How Recording Industry Identifies File Sharers" Recent grant opportunities from the U.S. Department of Education (ED)- big trouble with teen hackers - the smart pen - Information and technology want to be free actually better than free - webquests explained - Computer Networks Documentary about the birth of the internet.

Nominations Now Being Accepted for Youth Service America National Youth Council - I'm looking to fill 3 spots on the Youth Service America National Youth Council. The number one qualification is passion to improve the lives of others. All applications must be received by Monday March 10, 2008 (5 PM EST)

Lore's Labor's Lost: Archie Green's Restoration of Worlds of Labor. Tin Men. By Archie Green. 2006. Millwrights in Northern California 1901-2002. 2003. By Archie Green. Harry Lundeberg's Stetson & Other Nautical Treasures. 2006. By Archie Green. The Big Red Songbook. 2007. Edited by Archie Green, David Roediger,Franklin Rosemont, and Salvatore Salerno. Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism.

Great Pictures

VIDEO Washington D.C. - the senate introduced a resolution and conducted a symposium on behalf of Judge A. Leon Higginbotham. Black History Month All Year Long.

Working Effectively With Tribal Governments Training Program Available Free Class. K-12 Mailing List.

Designed to look just like Wikipedia's layout, albeit with a slogan that reads, "a wiki of dicks," Dickipedia gives you the type of insight you won't find on the former site. Big names that get the dick treatment include Lance Armstrong, Kanye West, and even Santa Claus.

Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow is born.

Farmed chickens are bred to grow so rapidly that many can hardly walk, report British scientists.

egister Now for the 2008 Annual Convention in Philadelphia

Learn how children learn.

Hypertext is a non-linear way of presenting information, hypertext allows learners to follow their own path, what they are interested in and when they want to know about it.

Educational CyberPlayGround - Technology. 1934 Paul Otlet invented hypertext, multi-media, and the web. He didn't use these words of course. He called it the International Network for Universal Documentation. In his 1934 "Treatise of Documentation"

LinuxSecurity.com Weekly Newsletter February 1st, 2008 Volume 9, Number 5 |

Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2008-5

NetHappenings Headlines and Education Resources feb.4

"Answer Your Cellphone. The Taxman Is Calling."
A recent tough stance by the Internal Revenue Service on
employees' use of cellphones is forcing some colleges to rethink
whether and under what conditions they should continue to provide
the devices to administrators and staff members. The federal tax
agency has been reminding employers that cellphones they provide
employees should be treated as taxable income, unless employees
can document that their phones are used only for business. Of
course most employees who get cellphones from their employers,
including those at colleges, use them a lot for personal calls.
So Ohio State University, among others, has decided to treat
cellphones as an employee benefit and report the cellphones as
income on employees' W-2 forms. Oakland University is providing
its employees with a cellphone stipend ranging from $45 to $90 a
month. Baylor University is giving employees the option of
accepting the cellphone as an employee benefit or otherwise
signing a statement that says they use the cellphone only for
business.

HISTORY OF VALENTINE'S DAY, free clip art.

The beginning of Spring. Irish Goddess "Brigit's Day" Imbolc "in the belly" (of the mother) when plants start to grow. Kildare Ireland, priestess, druids, groundhog, candlemas, feb. 2, festival of lights.

TL INFOBITS - Technology and Higher Education's Future - 2008 Horizon Report on Emerging Technologies - Technology and Emerging Issues in Academic Libraries - Bookmarking Tool for Scholars - Overview of Institutional Repositories - Recommended Reading -

Librarians at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor threw themselves a party on Friday to celebrate a milestone in their ambitious effort to scan every single book in the collection. They scanned the one millionth book, leaving just 6.5-million to go.

What Hippies THINK - BETTER THAN FREE - The Value of Music / Technology Wants To BE FREE and Microsoft Can't Compete with Google

K-12 first national conference for Educational Web Professionals professionals working in K-12 education.

glassbooth connects you to the 2008 presidential candidate that represents your beliefs the best.

The Full Frontal Scrutiny site is debuting today with an investigation of front group activity on Wikipedia. The information includes a guide to help consumers get the most out of that site and other information sources on the Web, and with a history of front groups and their nefarious activities. Full Frontal Scrutiny will also publish selected content from WebWatch and from the CMD's SourceWatch site, as well as aggregating news about front groups from other reliable sources.

False Pretenses Following 9/11, President Bush and seven top officials of his administration waged a carefully orchestrated campaign of misinformation about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

Network Tools

The Educational Outreach Division of the Library of Congress is seeking applications from secondary teachers for a Teacher-in-Residence position during the 2008/09 school year.

In Cyberspace, Everyone Can Hear You Scream T he kid knows no boundaries. But neither does the adult. The high school senior is so lost in a hyper-public, YouTube world that he thinks nothing of forwarding a private phone call to the entire planet. The wife of the Fairfax County schools administrator the kid called at home is understandably miffed about the invasion into her private sphere, yet she returns fire with a shockingly disproportionate blast of rage.

NATIVE VILLAGE YOUTH AND EDUCATION NEWS

ED Review (02/01/08)

a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface.

List of Songs about rain.

“Using a tool like CiteULike, researchers (who are finding 99 percent of their journal papers online, probably bypassing the library) can now reach directly into the bookshelves of other researchers in their field (or any other field), anywhere the world, knowing nothing about them other than what they have bookmarked, and see what they are reading right now,” he said.

we need to establish a new copyright regime that reflects the age-old normative consensus about what's fair and what isn't at the small-scale, hand-to-hand end of copying, display, performance and adaptation.

NASA AND THE BEATLES CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARIES BY BEAMING SONG 'ACROSS THE UNIVERSE' INTO DEEP SPACE WASHINGTON -- For the first time ever, NASA will beam a song -- The Beatles' "Across the Universe" -- directly into deep space at 7 p.m. EST on Feb. 4.

"Our friends at The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) will be representing the mechanical right interests of songwriters and music publishers in this hearing. They will be fighting vigorously to protect those mechanical right interests to ensure that musical compositions are compensated fairly," Bergman wrote. "On the other side of this fight stands the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Digital Media Association (DiMA). Both the RIAA and DiMA have proposed significant reductions in mechanical royalty rates that would be disastrous for songwriters and music publishers."

NetHappenings Newsletter - Headlines and Resources 2/1/08

NASA Science News Plant Growth Chamber Image Gallery and Video Available - NOVA

The Internal Revenue Service has fixed only 29 of 98 weaknesses in its information security controls, threatening the confidentiality and availability of its financial processing systems and information and limiting the reliability of its taxpayer and financial data.

[EDInfo] Notices Inviting Applications (January 31, 2008)Recent grant opportunities from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) include... * Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination Grant Program -- CFDA# 84.351D * Improving Literacy Through School Libraries Program -- CFDA# 84.364A * Schools/Healthy Students Program -- CFDA# 84.184L * Alaska Native Education Program -- CFDA# 84.356A * Native Hawaiian Education Program -- CFDA# 84.362A