[ABC News 7]
RIP Captain Kangaroo.

[ZDNet]
In defense of outsourcing.

[personal page]
Interesting (and amusing) deconstruction of deconstruction by Chip Morningstar, engineer.

[Channel4.com]
Melancholy animated short, Killing Time.

[Salon.com]
Nebula-nominated story, 0wnz0red, by Cory Doctorow.

[paulgraham.com]
Are you immune to moral fashions? How much are your thoughts influenced by the accepted beliefs of your time and culture?

[Slate]
Telling adults whom they can and cannot sleep with. Ironically, the vulnerability of students has hardly decreased under the new paradigm; it's increased. As opportunities for venting injury have expanded, the variety of opportunities to feel injured have correspondingly multiplied. Under the "offensive environment" guidelines, students are encouraged to regard themselves as such exquisitely sensitive creatures that an errant classroom remark impedes their education, such hothouse flowers that an unfunny joke creates a lasting trauma

[edge.org]
Edge question for 2004: What's Your Law?

[misc.]
Entertaining Gollum rap video.

[betterhumans.com]
Editorial on why a basic background in science is vital for all in the 21^st century. Scientific illiteracy cripples culture, justice, democracy and society in general.

[BBC News]
Why do some people get all the luck while others never get the breaks they deserve? A psychologist says he has discovered the answer.