Re:[tips] Canada's early intolerance

2010-11-18 Thread Allen Esterson
First a correction to my last post: It was Palmerston, not Lord Russell, who was the British Prime Minister at the time of the American Civil War; Russell was the Foreign Minister. Also: The Google Books edition *Great Britain and the American Civil War* by Ephraim Douglas Adams is dated 2006,

[tips] NYU Faculty First In Backward Looking Technology!

2010-11-18 Thread Mike Palij
I can tell you from personal experience that NYU has some eccentric people on the faculty but this really beats them all: http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2010/11/18/16202696.html For those who choose not to link-through (it is, after all, to the Toronto Sun newspaper website), here is a

Re: [tips] NYU Faculty First In Backward Looking Technology!

2010-11-18 Thread Serafin, John
Hmmm...I'm not sure why the camera needs to be surgically implanted, so maybe there's more behind this than is indicated in the story. He's not feeding these images into any bigger database, is he? Also, I'm not sure about Fred Ritchin's response that Obviously you donĀ¹t want students to be under

Re: [tips] NYU Faculty First In Backward Looking Technology!

2010-11-18 Thread Mike Palij
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:28:19 -0800,, John Serafin wrote: Hmmm...I'm not sure why the camera needs to be surgically implanted, so maybe there's more behind this than is indicated in the story. He's not feeding these images into any bigger database, is he? The Toronto Sun article appears to have