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Veni, Vici, Vidi: Latin Lives On..

http://books.guardian.co.uk/lrb/articles/0,6109,580910,00.html Veni, vidi, vici: how Latin lives on Latin has survived the fall of empire, the rise of the vernacular and the incomprehension of generations of schoolchildren. In this exclusive online essay from the...

What You Play With Defines Who You Become

from the December 24, 2002 edition – http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1224/p17s01-lifp.html Toy Stories *If you want to reduce serious adults to silly smiles, ask about their favorite childhood toy – the one they held onto for years, or perhaps still have....

2002: The Year In Technology

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993215 * 2002: The year in technology* 09:00 25 December 02 Will Knight The entertainment industry upped its attack on the internet file-sharing in 2002 by introducing new and controversial “copy protection”...

Bush Administration to Propose System for Monitoring Internet

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/20/technology/20MONI.html December 20, 2002 Bush Administration to Propose System for Monitoring Internet By JOHN MARKOFF and JOHN SCHWARTZ The Bush administration is planning to propose requiring Internet service providers to help build...

Memetics and Gladwell’s “Tipping Point”

Lance forced me at beer-point to read Malcolm Gladwell’s “Tipping Point” [1]. The book is largely based on a concept known as Memetics, which takes its roots in the work of sociologists and anthropologists, who attempted during the 1970s to adapt...