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Guide to the Middle of Nowhere Web Visitors guide for this web.
Review of this web by Mike Swaine; inaugural issues of Web Techniques magazine.
Evolving a Distributed Learning Community by Brad Cox "Technology can extend traditional teacher/learner relationships beyond the space/time limitations of the brick and mortar classroom. And it can challenge and redefine how teachers and learners have related since antiquity. This chapter describes the evolution of a course in which traditional relationships have been and are being challenged, via internet and television, in pursuit of the elusive potential of a fully distributed global community of empowered learners."
No Silver Bullet Reconsidered by Brad Cox "Superdistribution can allow software engineers to overcome the software crisis as tangible domains surmounted the same problem, by encapsulating complexity so thoroughly that everyone else can forget it. The solution requires enforcing property rights in digital goods as robustly as conservation of mass enforces them for tangible goods. " Also see Planning the Software Industrial Revolution and my book, Superdistribution: Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier.
Credit Card Transactions: Real World and Online A Spring 1996 directed readings project by Keith Lamond. "To most of us, the credit card system is a black box. We hand the merchant are credit card and then the purchase shows up a month later on our credit card statement. We never considered what is going on in the background, or even the safety of the transaction."
Bionomics: Economics, Computational Modeling, and Artificial Life as unifying conceptional frameworks for traditional software engineering issues.
CyberPorn Fear Storm The incredible tale of how an ace Time reporter, the Georgetown Law Review, and the U.S. Congress got conspicuously hosed by an unscrupulous CMU undergrad. Without the least sign of embarassment about what caused this whole flap, Congress's reaction was to add provisions to the Telecom Bill to hose you and me. Bill Clinton recently signed this bill into law.
DialupIP : Tutorials and software for installing and using graphical web and email clients via ordinary GMU dialup telephone lines. For Macintosh or Windows.
Perl: The Swiss Army Chainsaw (Practical Extraction and Report Language)
Reading and Writing the Web: Instructions for reading, searching, and writing new material for the web.
Mike Swaine published a nice review of this web in the inaugural issue of Web Techniques magazine.
cartalk.com - NPR's infamous Car Talk show comes to the Web!
Hot Tips by You the People Hilarious!
Automatic Complaint Letter Generator Send one to your Dean!
All Men Must Die This is a dead man. You too could be dead. Conform to the norm! DIE NOW! Do it. You know you want to, really. And it'll save me alot of work, too! [[ bjc: Imagine the hoohah if genders were inverted on this one!]]
Philip Greenspun I'm a graduate student at the AI Lab and Laboratory for Computer Science. When I don't have any good ideas for research, I travel, write, or take pictures. I also teach probability and signal processing to EECS undergraduates and think about careers for engineers and computer scientists. I have my favorite links on the Web but spend almost all of my spare time producing Web pages which doesn't leave me much time to surf.
WWII Archives Patch High School, Germany.
Project Vote SmartOn common ground, a unique and unlikely gathering is taking place. Thousands -- citizens and statesmen, conservatives and liberals, traditional enemies with vastly different backgrounds and points of view -- are joining for battle. If successful, Americans will experience a re-emergence of political power unknown to them for many decades. It is a battle for that most essential and precious element in our struggle to self-govern: honest and accurate information about those who represent us or wish to replace those who do.
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