The article.

Now, I know that Wikipedia has become one of the most successful web-based projects out there, if not *the* most. That is undeniable.

However, while I do think that its latest pet project, Wikiversity (beta), is admirable for its goals, I can’t help thinking that its going a tad overboard.

Education – from a pedagogical standpoint – needs some sort of rigidity or enforcement, and Wikiversity – even with its omnilingual access – seems to be a bit too fluid at this stage to be put forward as a serious institution of education for the masses.

Maybe its because of the current lack of engaging, hands-on projects which would allow for Wikiversity to be more than just a repository of documentation.

Or, maybe the goal, or eventual niche, of Wikiversity, combined with Wikimedia’s other projects, is to be a repository of free, open, unlicensed documentation that can be used by the current institutions of the world, from the low-end local tech schools to the higher-end liberal-arts campuses. God knows that textbooks are a pain in the ass to buy, then sell in order to buy other books for the next quarter or semester, and so on. Plus, we could take to mind that colleges of whatever stripe have to pay unnecessary amounts of money to the authors and publishers of those textbooks for intellectual property and publishing copyright (even PDFs aren’t spared).

If that were the case, and it was embraced as an alternative route by these colleges, then I could imagine that the tuition at the highest-end colleges (say, Oglethorpe University), could come down quite a tad.

Maybe there’s room for Wikiversity after all?

I’ve let Halloween pass me by this year…yep, all the last five days of it (I guess the trend is to stretch it out over the weekend).

You can probably guess why I don’t celebrate it. OK, maybe I’ve already documented that from last year’s Halloween up in Atlanta, which didn’t turn out so well.

Next year, though, I plan to.

I doubt that I’ll have a fursuit by then, though. Maybe just a simple face painting….

The marriage is over.

Connie’s currently looking for a house within the Columbus area. Once she can find one, she will resign from the lease, and Dwayne will have the house (which we had helped them move into a month or two before) to himself. Then she’ll be on her way (hopefully, eventually to an assignment in Germany again).

I wonder if she’ll be alright after she hangs up the phone. I mean, neither of us (me or Mom) saw Dwayne’s face on Saturday when we were at the house (Connie had asked me to help rid her laptop of a virus). Plus, she cried on Mom’s shoulder, obviously in need of consolation for all that has transpired ever since she got married in July.

This mess is only compounding upon the current crisis. Things haven’t looked so bleak to me since my last days at Oglethorpe.

In the meantime, we wait.

Oh, and this is funny.

Didn’t want to impose the huge size on anyone’s friends page.

Oh, don’t read this tripe. I know you’re dog-tired of it, anyway.

Firefox 2.0 is out (as is Fedora Core 6 and two new Macbook Pros with Intel Core 2 Duo), and it ain’t much.

Jay-Z is, apparently, out of retirement.

I think I’m out of that “job”.

And Republicans in Tennessee are out of their minds.

And now for something completely different……

balthazar881 brings up an interesting topic: Music and the Awareness Shift.

EDIT: Oh, and Stephen Colbert was out and about at the Northwestern parade this past Friday.

Back in 2004, the fundies were thinking just that. (Original Link: Here)

It spawned discussions on Apostropher and Unfogged.

And now, as of today, he’s mulling the possibility of running for President in 2008.

Well, let’s see if he fits the Left Behind definition of the Antichrist.

1) He apparently rose from a seat in the Illinois State Senate to international popstardom in an instant, with one simple speech.
2) No fault is found with him (unless you count the fundies, who have the tin-foil hats on tight concerning Obama, Hillary, etc.).
3) Everyone can find a bit of themselves in him, be they black or white.
4) He draws throngs like flies.
5) He identifies with everyone.
6) He proves that one can be “liberal” and still invoke God as your patron.
7) If he runs in ’08, he’ll be done by ’12.
8) The guy is an aura-surrounded messiah in a den of thieves.
9) Even Republican senators and representatives say *good* things about him.
10) He won a *landslide* victory – 70% – for the Illinois seat in the Senate, while Republicans were gaining in most other states.

Oh yes, and he identifies himself as African-American (despite whatever the hell Alan Keyes was spewing….oh, wait a minute, who’s he again?), the only one in the Senate. I’m not counting this as part of the above list of reasons, but accusations of a hinted racism have been levelled at this discussion at the above forums by participants.

So watch Oprah after November 7, even if you don’t usually watch it (hopefully, it’ll be Tivo’ed and posted on YouTube within the hour). That, he stated on Monday, is where he’ll personally announce his decision on an ’08 run.

Man, vovinoiad, 2012 seems much more…..tangible by the day, dont’cha think? It’s like America’s ready for this guy.

Note the Superman pose.

EDIT: Code fixed. I was writing it overnight. 😛

Bookmarklets
Userscripts
UserStyles
Search Plugins
Themes
Other extensions

I’ve realized that Firefox is, by itself, the first great browser development platform because of being extendable and tweakable by its own merit, not depending upon the resources of the host operating system for its usage.

Oh, and I’ve found TiddlyWiki, which allows you to create your own wiki-on-a-stick (or even a blog or notepad), with server-side hosting being optional.

TiddlyWiki site

And I really need to sleep more….

Courtesy Doll’s realm via GReader.