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[Thx to the pit’s institutional journalism correspondent, Pat Vecchio, for passing this on.] InsideHigherEd.com, a new competitor to the Chronicle of High Ed, is hitting the ground running, looks like. They have a nice look here at how Rutgers is attempting to squash a student investigative piece examining special treatment for athletes. Remember the good old days when colleges were

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – Just as legal music downloading is taking off in earnest, the major record labels are in talks to raise the price they charge online retailers for song downloads, a newspaper reported Monday. And this is the line of the day: “I think whoever came up with this idea understands the online music industry about as well

It’s remarkable how much can go through your head in a really short period of time. (It’s equally remarkable how little can go through some people’s heads in a very long period of time, but I digress.) This morning I got an e-mail from Brian at daedalnexus, and I quickly registered the headline and blurb: Don’t Blame Wal-Mart Wal-Mart has

The muse hasn’t abandoned me entirely. __________________________ Certainty 1. Breach – tree-spined, arcing down the Four Mile, north, toward the river. dis / connect snowfall from swerving ridgeline hill from hollow moon from fractured day limping home on splints of headlight 2. Kitchen light imp of wick and tallow warms the plane and groove of hand-tooled oak. Our grandfathers are

bruce_schneier is dead on today: The TSA likes to measure its success by looking at the forbidden items they have prevented from being carried onto aircraft, but that’s wrong. Every time the TSA takes a pocketknife from an innocent person, that’s a security failure. It’s a false alarm. The system has prevented access where no prevention was required. Right. And

[Thx to ultimate_seeker for passing this item on.] Cell companies ready to roll out new virtual girlfriend on 3G networks Men, are you tired of the time, trouble and expense of having a girlfriend? Irritated by the difficulty of finding a new one? Eberhard Schöneburg, the chief executive of the software maker Artificial Life Inc. of Hong Kong, may have

Sources close to the Mojo City News actually live in Wichita, so they’re pretty happy to have BTK off the streets – if in fact Dennis Rader is BTK. (latest CNN story) Cody Barstow of MCN has been critical of the way in which the authorities have withheld information throughout this investigation, and has a new analysis in the wake

Dr. Jim Booth – aka sirpaulsbuddy – thinks I may be off in my earlier suggestion that the Dems need to get themselves a Machiavelli. In his view, what is called for is instead a Robespierre, an uncompromising flamethrower of civic virtue. Maybe. Perhaps it depends on how much credit you give the public. I’ve been cynical of late (and

[Thx to Cody Barstow of Mojo City News for pointing this out.] NY Times: 10 Voters on Panel Backing Pain Pills Had Industry Ties Ten of the 32 government drug advisers who last week endorsed continued marketing of the huge-selling pain pills Celebrex, Bextra and Vioxx have consulted in recent years for the drugs’ makers, according to disclosures in medical

Nicked from the letters section at Romenesko: From JEROME WEEKS, Dallas Morning News: Given the recent back-and-forth in these letters about insider access and political manipulation — including William E. Jackson, Jr’s posting about the Judith Miller/Ahmad Chalabi resurrection — interested reporters should pick up the March 10 issue of The New York Review of Books — for the letters

Son says Hunter Thompson may have just decided it was time He considers his father “a patriot in the truest sense of the word,” someone who believed deeply in civil rights and democracy but was appalled by the nation’s failure to live up to its ideals. “Part of the power of his writing is his disgust with the gap between

Disclaimer: I was a huge Charlotte Hornets fan and Shinn & Woolridge can go directly to hell. That said, I’m having a hell of a time trying to figure out what these morons are trying to accomplish here at the trade deadline. Baron Davis for Dale Davis and Speedy Claxton? Ummm, okay. Glenn Robinson? I guess that’s a money move,

I’ve held my tongue on this NHL debacle, but now that the corpse of the 2004-2005 season has finally stopped sitting up in the coffin to insist that it’s still alive, I wanted to offer a couple comments. First, I’m not sure I’ll lose any sleep over the players and owners and all the money they’re flushing. There’s plenty of

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The Giants just announced that Barry Bonds won’t be wearing his old #25 anymore, and posted a picture of his new jersey on their Web site. Here’s a preview: