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Greetings Everyone,

Happy reading for today.

best,
<Karen>

1.
My National Security Letter Gag Order
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/22/AR2007
032201882.html
Friday, March 23, 2007; Page A17
It is the policy of The Washington Post not to publish anonymous
pieces. In this case, an exception has been made because the author
-- who would have preferred to be named -- is legally prohibited from
disclosing his or her identity in connection with receipt of a
national security letter. The Post confirmed the legitimacy of this
submission by verifying it with the author's attorney and by
reviewing publicly available court documents.
The Justice Department's inspector general revealed on March 9 that
the FBI has been systematically abusing one of the most controversial
provisions of the USA Patriot Act: the expanded power to issue
"national security letters." It no doubt surprised most Americans to
learn that between 2003 and 2005 the FBI issued more than 140,000
specific demands under this provision -- demands issued without a
showing of probable cause or prior judicial approval -- to obtain
potentially sensitive information about U.S. citizens and residents.
It did not, however, come as any surprise to me.
Three years ago, I received a national security letter (NSL) in my
capacity as the president of a small Internet access and consulting
business. The letter ordered me to provide sensitive information
about one of my clients. There was no indication that a judge had
reviewed or approved the letter, and it turned out that none had. The
letter came with a gag provision that prohibited me from telling
anyone, including my client, that the FBI was seeking this
information. Based on the context of the demand -- a context that the
FBI still won't let me discuss publicly -- I suspected that the FBI
was abusing its power and that the letter sought information to which
the FBI was not entitled.

2)
Oracle sues archrival SAP for theft
http://news.com.com/Oracle+sues+SAP+on+spying+charges/2100-1014_3-6169729.html
Oracle announced Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit against archrival
SAP, alleging the software giant hacked into Oracle's customer support
center and downloaded copies of its proprietary software code.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Federal District Court for Northern
California, names SAP and its wholly owned subsidiary TomorrowNow as
defendants. Among its claims, the lawsuit [1] (PDF) alleges SAP and
TomorrowNow engaged in computer fraud and abuse, computer data access
and fraud, and intentional interference with prospective economic
advantage.
"This systematic theft of Oracle's software and support materials did
not originate from any actual customer location. Rather, the access
originated from an Internet protocol (IP) address in Bryan, Texas, an
SAP America branch office location and home of its wholly owned
subsidiary SAP TN," the lawsuit alleges.
TomorrowNow, which SAP acquired in 2005, offers support and maintenance
to PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards customers. SAP and TomorrowNow launched a
major marketing campaign to woo away customers, shortly after Oracle
acquired its former rivals PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards in 2005.

3)
The meaning and origin of HyperTest and
Video by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of
Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Culdesac/hypertxt.html

4)
Digital Library for Math and Science Resources
http://www.amser.org
I would like to share a digital library project-AMSER- with all of
you. AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a
portal of educational resources and services built specifically for
use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone
to use. AMSER is a non-profit organization and is funded by the
National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science
Digital Library (NSDL). We are a fairly new project, and are
constantly adding new resources to our library. (About 200-300 per
week) The resources we add to our site come from other online digital
collections, staff (area expert) additions, as well as from faculty
from around the country. The goal of AMSER is not only to provide a
site where instructors and students can find high-quality and
authoritative web resources but to provide tools to use these
resources as well. We provide a folder system (which allows you to
share resources online), bulletin service (to update you with subject
specific resources), saved searches, rating and comments systems and
more. Because we are new, we would appreciate any feedback for
improvements that could be made to the site to make it more useful for
you, as well as any suggestions for online material that we could add.

5)
Clearinghouse of Government Documents Digital Projects
<http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/Clearinghouse_of_Government_Doc
uments_Digital_Projects>
"The Clearinghouse of Government Documents Digital Projects was created by
the Ad Hoc Committee on Digitization of Government Information "to provide
information to librarians and others about digitization projects for
local, state, federal, and international government documents that are
currently planned, in progress, or already completed..." in hopes that the
sharing of information would "facilitate cooperation and partnerships
between libraries for digitization projects." In 2007 GODORT's Government
Information Technology Committee agreed to cease updating the database,
which was housed at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and transfer the
information on local, state, and international government projects to the
GODORT wiki."

6)
Many or most of the Netlibrary eBooks come from Project Gutenberg,
but are not kept up to date via error corrections, format changes,
and many other improvements. . .not to mention that you can choose
your own fonts, font size, pagination, etc. with the original book
as presented by Project Gutenberg.
And. . .on July 4th, the 36th anniversary of eBooks on the Net--
there will be 2/3 - 3/4 million ebooks
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/E-Books.asp

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7)
IBM offers some views of where the publishing industry might be going.
http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/index.wss/ibvstudy/gbs/a1026258?cnt
xt=a1000062

8)
Random House and HarperCollins will let readers browse books online
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/02/28/book.browsing.reut/index.html
and add book material to social networks (think MySpace). In addition,
Amazon and Google will be able to let customers look at book pages.

9)
Brooklyn Law School professor Wendy Seltzer Fights NFL Take down Notice
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070320-nfl-fumbles-dmca-takedow
n-battle-could-face-sanctions.html
and in the process, the NFL itself appears to have violated the DMCA.

What are your Fair Use Rights?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/copyrightleft2.html

10)
NPR Leads Legal Battle Against Increased Online Royalties
March 20, 2007
_As expected_ http://fmqb.com/article.asp?id=370346 , National Public
Radio (NPR) has filed for a rehearing with the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB)
over the proposed increase in Internet radio royalty rates. In a
statement, NPR
VP for Communications Andi Sporkin said, "This action is the first step in
NPR's efforts to reverse the decision, and it will be followed by an appeal of
the Board's decision to be filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.
Circuit. The Board's decision to dramatically raise public radio stations'
rates was based on inaccurate assumptions and lack of understanding of the
issues. The new rates inexplicably break with the longstanding tradition of
recognizing public radio's non-commercial, non-profit role, while the
procedures
we're being asked to now undertake for measurement are non-existent,
arbitrary and costly."

11.
Music Experiment - Rock and Roll Kills Mice
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/Mice_and_Music_Experiment_Mo.html

12.
Do you know the Decibel level when you start going deaf?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/ears.html
Kids blow out their ear drums trying to cheat in the classroom.

13.
11 year old Mojo Miles Uses a Looper plays a tribute to James Brown.
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=255175&fr=
plays Guitar, Bass, Keyboards & Sax
He's using a loop station pedal.
http://www.bossus.com/?pg=1&tmp=158

14.
Podcasting
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/podcast.html

Video Productions Curriculum
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Arts/Video_Production_Curriculu.html

15.
The Elements Song learn the periodic table.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/IEC/elementsong.html

16.
Space Travel Music
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/spacetravel.html

17.
Music about Science
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/IEC/iecscience.html

18.
Evolutionary Science Research on Music
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Culdesac/Stars/funkbrothersCulture.html
Why Music Makes You Smarter

19.
"Two Americas, Two Educations: Funding Quality Schools for All Students,"
http://www.latimes.com/news/education/la-et-book20mar20,1,5789097.stor
y?track=rss
Cummins seeks to shock us out of our complacency by showing us the money.
Most people assume that there is simply not enough money to fund
schools adequately,
let alone well; Cummins says that's bunk. He says the real culprit is a gross,
carefully maintained imbalance of money that, like the poor state of
education,
we've come to accept.

20.
Character education programs that are carefully designed and
implemented appear to be succeeding.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/Character.html

21.
Official Defends Editing Climate Papers
http://www.physorg.com/news93596017.html
A former White House official accused of improperly editing reports on
global warming defended his editing changes Monday, saying they
reflected views in a 2001 report by the National Academy of Sciences.
House Democrats said the 181 changes made in three climate reports
reflected a consistent attempt to emphasize the uncertainties
surrounding the science of climate change and undercut the broad
conclusions that man-made emissions are warming the earth.
Philip Cooney, former chief of staff at the White House Council on
Environmental Quality, acknowledged at a House hearing that some of
the changes he made were "to align these communications with the
administration's stated policy" on climate change.
The extent of Cooney's editing of government climate reports first
surfaced in 2005. Shortly thereafter, Cooney, a former oil industry
lobbyist, left the White House to work at Exxon Mobil Corp.

22.
April is National Poetry Month
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Arts/Poetry_Website.html

23.
History 1980-2000 has disappeared into the ether. Sorry
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/ben_macintyre/article1555570.ece>

24.
InfoWorld is not dead"
http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/010942.html
InfoWorld folds print mag to focus on online and events
Yes, the rumors are true. As of April 2, 2007, InfoWorld is
discontinuing its print component.

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