> WaPo: “Pentagon Creating Student Database“ > NYTimes: “Age 16 to 25? The Pentagon Has Your Number, and More“ From the NYTimes story: The Defense Department and a private contractor have been building an extensive database of 30 million 16-to-25-year-olds, combining names with Social Security numbers, grade-point averages, e-mail addresses and phone numbers. The department […]
‘We finally won something’
Someone at my office said the comment above referring to the change-of-heart the House had on funding for the CPB. No, we didn’t: we kept a radical plot that the conservative movement has been talking about for years from passing. Now, lets talk about firing Tomlinson (which a few organizations are), re-hiring Bill Moyers to […]
WaPo and Tina Brown
The Washington Post put this quote from today’s column by Tina Brown on the main page of their website: “Maybe it’s a secret fantasy of girl-on-girl action that makes Ed Klein obsess about Sen. Hillary Clinton’s supposed lesbian ethos.â€? What journalistic purpose is this serving? Couldn’t the space be better used? Actually, Why Tina in […]
Kang Campaign
I just spoke to someone with Eugene Kang’s campaign. They sound like they’re building a sound infastructure, and promise a website is coming soon … —–
‘Wireless’ Cities
Via Echoditto’s link blog, Intel’s 3rd-annual wireless ranking of U.S. cities. I’m not sure how they measure this, probably wifi points per capita, which I think seems like a bad way to compare a region with lots of Starbucks (they all have access points) with a city whose downtown is totally covered by wireless. Nevertheless, […]
History Repeating
I just read this blurb off the AP wire – apparently a U2 spy plane was shot down over an unspecified Asian country, which is still secret due to “host nation sensitivities.â€? You may remember a U2 shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960 caused quite the diplomatic flap. U.S. Spy Plane Crashes in […]
Searching U-M Salary Data
So you heard the Daily has posted the 2004 salaries. Now you can search the data online thanks to C. Gansen. Via a comment by Donn on Arborupdate. Here’s a few I pulled: Mary Sue Coleman: $484,500 Marvin Krislov: $247,491 E. Royster Harper: $221,708 Ralph Williams: $98,150 H.D. Cameron: $85,050 Diane Brown: $61,100 Matt Lassiter: […]