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  • Sorry, but you're not my type

    Sorry, but you’re not my type: Pity the poor South Korean man who is blood type B, pegged by pop culture as a selfish, mercurial cad.
    Jon Herskovitz, Reuters.

    Copyright 2005 National Post. All Rights Reserved. National Post (f/k/a The Financial Post) (Canada)
    April 19, 2005 Tuesday. Toronto Edition

    SEOUL – Lee Sung-san is a 24-year-old South Korean student looking for love and hoping the women he is wooing don’t ask for his blood type.

    Genetics and pop culture have teamed up to make Mr. Lee’s love life miserable. He is blood type B, which nudges him near to the nadir of the dating scene in South Korea.
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  • [DEBATE] peter waterman. International Marxist Embarassment Month?

    From: peter waterman
    To: “debate: SA discussion list”
    Cc: Virginia Vargas telefonica.net.pe
    Date: Apr 12, 2005 3:20 AM
    Subject: [DEBATE] : International Marxist Embarassment Month?

    If we need this kind (See Below) of gushing, this kind of emoting, this kind of identification between Trotskyism/Geuvarismo and particular contemporary individuals or parties, then I really think we should abandon Marxism for Catholicism.

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  • Kawuma Daniel Busuulwa. Tackling Africa's Last Taboo

    Tackling Africa’s Last Taboo
    By Kawuma Daniel Busuulwa
    African Voices, Volume 5, Issue 4. March 2005.

    Africa has always been labeled for its conservatism regards to sexual or gender issues. In most African ethnic cultures, talking openly about issues regarding sex was taboo. Some have gone further to correlate these tendencies with the escalating HIV/AIDS infection rates especially in sub-Saharan Africa. This as many observers argue has resulted into the failure for the more knowledgeable adults to pass on the crucial information in a precise and direct manner to the adolescent Africans. The failure to hit the hammer on the head as the pundits argue is costing Africa many lives in an era where we always need to adjust to such a dynamic world with new physical, economic and social demands.
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  • getting there It’s Not Just Usability by Joel…

    getting there?

    It’s Not Just Usability
    by Joel Spolsky
    Monday, September 06, 2004

    So a good social interface designer might say, let’s not display an error message. Let’s just pretend that the post about Viagra was accepted. Show it to the original poster, so he feels smug and moves on to the next inappropriate discussion group. But don’t show it to anyone else.
    ………..
    Social interface design is still a field in its infancy. I’m not aware of any books on the subject; there are only a few people working in the research side of the field, and there’s no organized science of social interface design. ………

    Over the next decade, I expect that software companies will hire people trained as anthropologists and ethnographers to work on social interface design. Instead of building usability labs, they’ll go out into the field and write ethnographies.

    kathy.lee :: portfolio
    msn messenger whiteboard
    SI 622 evaluation of systems and services

    » created personas and scenarios to frame our evaluations
    » fielded a survey to explore the competitive marketplace for IM applications as well users’ mental models
    » conducted a cognitive walkthrough and heuristic evaluation of the drawing and collobration tools

    mitupv exchange
    an online cultural and educational exchange

    the project’s largest payoffs came from involving the users. We conducted brainstorming sessions with the students to define functional requirements and tailored the development schedule to allow for ample user testing.

  • From Charlene Smith To debate SA discussion…

    From: Charlene Smith
    To: “debate: SA discussion list”
    Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 08:01:17 +0200

    Progressive attitudes from Nigeria, did not notice any of the same positive attitudes or support from any SA organisations. CS

    —– Original Message —–
    From: “Patrick Ogbogu”
    To: “Nigeria-AIDS eForum”
    Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 8:35 PM
    Subject: [eforum] Celebrating International Sex Workers Day

    March 3: International Sex Workers Day

    Dear All,

    On the occasion of International Sex Workers Rights Day, the Nigeria Network of Sex Work projects invites all of you to celebrate this day with us.

    The theme for this year is `Rehabilitation is Redundant, Recognise Rights’.

    We invite you to light a candle wherever you are to show solidarity to the struggle of sex workers to be human.

    In Solidarity,

    Irene Patrick-Ogbogu
    Head of Programs
    Women’s Health, Education and Development (WHED)
    Plot 288 Lagos Street
    Off Samuel Ladoke Akintola Blvd
    Garki II, Abuja, Nigeria
    Email: i.patrickogbogu@whednigeria.org
    Web: www.whednigeria.org


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  • [scrapbook] March 31: Selective Service ready to bring back the draft

    Date: Monday, February 28, 2005 11:27 PM -0500rr
    From: Action Center rr
    Subject: March 31: Selective Service ready to bring back the draftrr

    Stop the Draft before it starts:

    http://www.NoDraftNoWay.org

    On March 31, the Selective Service System will report to President Bush that it is ready to implement a draft within 75 days. We have to organize now to stop the draft before it starts.

    Despite what politicians say, there is a high probability that the Bush Administration will attempt to reinstate the draft.

    The U.S. military is in a quagmire in Iraq, facing a national popular uprising against the occupation. Soldiers are dying every day. A report issued in January 2004 by Jeffrey Record, a visiting professor at the Air War College, said the Army is “near the breaking point.” The Pentagon has been forced to issue repeated “stop loss” orders and recall soldiers who had retired or otherwise returned to civilian life.

    Out of 10 Army Divisions, part or all of 9 of them are either deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan. Twenty-one out of 33 regular combat brigades are on active duty in Iraq, Afghanistan, South Korea, or the Balkans. That’s 63% of the Army’s combat strength. This means the Army is extremely overextended. The Bush Administration has been trying to fill the gap with Reserve and National Guard troops, but this is a temporary fix at best. The head of the Army Reserves has recently written a memo saying that the readiness of his forces has been drastically reduced through over-deployment and is “degenerating into a broken force.”

    Meanwhile, official U.S. foreign policy is now the doctrine of “pre-emptive war” and “regime change” wherever a leader runs afoul of U.S. corporate interests. An invasion of Iran, Syria, Korea, or Cuba — all of whom are on Washington and Wall Street’s list of targets — would require tens or hundreds of thousands of new soldiers.

    Enlistment rates not even able to maintain current force levels, much less provide troops for new invasions and occupations. All four services missed their enlistment quotas last year, and enlistments in the Reserves, National Guard, and regular military are at a 30-year low. Many current members of the armed forces plan to get out as soon as their current enlistment ends. According to a poll conducted by the military newspaper Stars & Stripes, 49% of soldiers stationed in Iraq do not plan to re-enlist.

    The President has given the Selective Service System a set of readiness goals to be implemented by March 31, 2005. As part of these performance goals, the System must be ready to be fully operational within 75 days. This means we can look for the Draft to be in operation as early as June 15, 2005.

    March 19 is the second anniversary of the war. On the weekend of March 19-20, activists all over the globe will take to the streets to demand and end to the war and occupation. No Draft No Way will be mobilizing to take part in these demonstrations, which will take place just a few days before the Selective Service System reports to President Bush that it is ready to go. We must be in the streets to let them know that we oppose the draft and will not be used as cannon fodder in Iraq or in any new war.

    Let’s Organize NOW to Stop the Draft:

    1) Come to NYC for the March 19 Troops Out Now demonstration. Join the No Draft No Way! contingent in the march. http://www.troopsoutnow.org. Or join the march and rally in Fayetteville, NC, outside Fort Bragg–for more information, see http://www.ncpeacejustice.org.

    2) Organize an anti-draft meeting at your school, church or mosque, union hall, etc. Contact us at 212-633-6646 for help and speakers.

    3) Organize protests outside the selective service office in your area.

    4) Donate to help build a network of educators, activists, and resisters to fight the draft–before it returns. http://nodraftnoway.org/donate-new.shtml

    5) Sign the No Draft Petition. http://nodraftnoway.org/petition.shtml

    http://www.NoDraftNoWay.org

    March 19 Troops Out Now! March on Central Park in NYC! Regional Demonstrations Across the U.S. & Worldwide

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  • these guys prove ontologically what they fight against…

    these guys prove ontologically what they fight against. boldface is mine.

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