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Happy Reading for Today.


<Karen>



1)
Is Google a Library?
http://www.googlizationofeverything.com/is_google_a_library/
Siva Vaidhyanathan is working on a book called "The Googlization of Everything". The book project has a blog, where Siva invites people to comment on various postings related to Google. One of the topical areas in the blog is "Is Google a Library?" 

2)
How to work with Google
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/search2.html
Google is a black box. How to work with / not for google.
Learn how to work with google, use google hacks and click fraud.
Google Facts - Monetization of Libraries


3)
War Songs
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/WarSongs.html
Find the Atomic Platters: Cold War Music [Real Player]
Along with ushering in a new age of global unrest and high anxiety, the
emergence of the atomic bomb had a curious and not totally unpredictable
effect on the world of popular (and not-so-popular) music. This site brings
together these various subgenres of "atomic" music in a way that's rather
fun, intriguing, and at times, a bit scary. Visitors can look through such
subgenres as "Atomic", "Cold War", "Flying Saucer", and so on. While most of
the songs are not available in their full form, visitors can read all of the
lyrics and interpretive essays. Of course, visitors can find plenty of audio
joy at the "CONELRAD Audio Archives" area. Herein are contained such gems as
the positively odd "The Complacent Americans" and the equally lovable
novelty album "The Goldwaters Sing Folk Songs to Bug the Liberals".


4)
Security, Your Privacy Rights, and Spyware
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/SECURITYprivacy.html


5)
Index on Censorship
http://www.indexonline.org/index.shtml
The basic human right of human expression is tremendously important, and
this is not lost on the good and dedicated people at the magazine "Index on
Censorship". Founded in 1972, the magazine has published opinion pieces,
analysis, and reporting by Vaclav Havel, Nadine Gordimer, Noam Chomsky, and
Umberto Eco. Along with their actual magazine, they also keep many of their
feature pieces online here. Visitors are encouraged to read pieces on
censorship in Britain, the rights of journalists, and the suppression of
certain political-minded weblogs.  Given the breadth of material offered
here, it's easy to see how this site could also be used in a journalism
classroom.


6)
How Safe if your School?
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/safe.html
SCHOOLS THAT HIDE TEACHER WRONGDOING FROM STATES ENDANGER KIDS
Schools often keep state in the dark. The biggest districts typically
fail to report teacher discipline to the Ohio Department of Education. 11/ 2007


7)
NCLB: How  our Tax Money is Given to the Private Sector
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/16/education/16child.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
For chronically failing schools like these, the No Child Left Behind law, now up for renewal in Congress, prescribes drastic measures: firing teachers and principals, shutting schools and turning them over to a private firm, a charter operator or the state itself, or a major overhaul in governance. 

8)
Reading, Writing and Recruiting
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/content/education/chi-military_15oct15,0,2150458.story
Chicago Public Schools, which already has the largest junior military reserve program in the nation, on Monday will commission the country's first public high school run by the U.S. Marines, much to the chagrin of activists who have fought to keep the armed 
services out of city schools.

9)
Tighter security over power plant computer systems urged
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=38319
Current regulations to protect the control systems that support power
plants nationwide fall short of federal recommendations, posing a
serious threat to the electric infrastructure and national security,
witnesses testified at a hearing Wednesday. One lawmaker threatened
legislation if standards don't improve.


10)
HIGH-TECH SOLUTIONS: Safeguarding your business
http://www.tonawanda-news.com/business/local_story_292113848.html
After 2001, the FBI mandated that all 56 field offices in the country
create a cyber squad. The group of agents would have one job:
investigating Internet crime.
The Western New York business community was introduced to a couple of
representatives of the FBI Buffalo Division'a cyber squad at the
seventh annual Western New York Technology Forum, held Thursday at
Conference Center Niagara Falls. The forum was designed to bring local
businesses up to speed on innovations in the technology security field.

11)
Anonymous "good samaritans" produce Wikipedia's best content, says study
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/abstracts/TR2007-606/

12)
Online Gambling: Hacking by Costa Rican Employees Not Uncommon
http://www.gambling911.com/online-gambling-102007.html
With all the hoopla surrounding the Absolute Poker "internal breach",
the focus shifts towards Costa Rican employees of online gambling
establishments and the common practice of hacking into company computer
systems.

13)
Hackers Space: the Final Frontier
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/hackers-space-t.html
Imagine a device that looks like a lawnmower, rolls up to you and shows
you your wifi password. It's Hackerbot, and 3ricj says people react
kindly to the little bot, not like they do to the evil hacker
stereotype. Or a CDMA device sent up in a balloon that works until the
batteries fail.
This is what happens when hackers have a space - Hackerspace, in
Seattle. Founded on April Fool's 2005, it's full of things that explode,
burn, whirr and hum, and people who play with them.

14)
Controversial Russian Web Hoster Says Critics Are Rogue,
Greedy Xenophobe
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/controversial-r.html
A reportedly rogue Russian web hoster accused of being home to the web's
worst scams says it's clean, but that its vocal and well-respected
critics are anything but. Anti-spam group Spamhaus won't follow its own
rules and strongarms innocent ISPs into violating contracts, while
Verisign's research arm pumps out security misinformation to justify its
security contracts with its customers, the company charges.
The Russian Business Network is a secretive Russian web hosting provider
that Western security firms say plays host to some of the worst scams on
the internet. RBN tells THREAT LEVEL via email that those accusations
are similar to Bush administration exaggerations about Iraq's
non-existent weapons of mass destruction that RBN says was cover for
earning "petrodollars."

15)
IT staff acts as wildfire advances on Pepperdine's data center
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9043421
The first warning that Timothy Chester, the CIO of Pepperdine
University, had of the wildfire that would threaten the Malibu, Calif.,
campus came when the power went out in his home. It was 5 a.m. Sunday.
Within a matter of hours, brush fires came within 100 feet of the data
center -- and there was a point, said Chester, where â??we had serious
concern that the data center itself was going to be jeopardized.â??
Chester lives on the 830-acre, Pacific Coast campus and heard the backup
power systems in his house switching on. Looking out from his hilltop
home, it was apparent that the power was out throughout the campus.
Chester quickly left for the data center, and as he drove to it, he
could see light from the fire on the other side of a ridge.

16)
Eniac Programmers Project Honoring Computer Pioneers and Preserving Their Stories 
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/cwomen.html
ENIAC Programmers Event at Google
Meet Jean J Jennings Bartik. an Eniac Programmer.
ENIAC Programmers historian Kathryn Kleiman.
You are invited to an event being held at Google for an ENIAC
Dinner & Documentary Preview - Programmers Documentary
Google Headquarters ? Mountain View, CA
Thursday, November 8, 2007 6:00-9:00 PM

17)
You Snooze or Loose. Kids aren't getting enough sleep.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/NCFR/health.html
America is raising a nation of sleep-deprived kids.
The large academic consequences of small sleep differences.
A slightly sleepy sixth-grader will perform in class like a mere fourth-grader. 

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