Bush insisted he made that comment before he learned of the new NIE, though he acknowledged Mike McConnell, his director of national intelligence, gave him an inkling something was up last summer.

"Mike McConnell came in and said, 'We have some new information,' " Bush recalled. "He didn't tell me what the information was. He did tell me it was going to take a while to analyze."

Sen. Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate, said he can't believe the president got tipped off in August to a change and didn't follow-up with questions until last week.

"If that's true," Biden told reporters, "he's one of the most incompetent presidents in modern American history."

Analysis: Bush won't back down on Iran - CNN.com

The following tutorial has been created to assist new online faculty in familiarizing themselves with the Windows environment and building baseline knowledge and skills. It is particularly suited for novice to intermediate folks; all of the items on the list will be used, in one fashion or another, during the WebTycho training.

Basic computer skills tutorial. From /.

Basic Computer Skills Tutorial - UMUC

A clip from the Robo-1 Grand (robot fighting) Championship in Tokyo. I’m trying desperately to find a way to link this video to illustration, but can’t do it. We’re going to put it under our ‘toys’ category and look the other way, though, okay?

I find myself rooting for the ‘balloon-head’ and samurai penguin robots!

Fighting robot tournament footage from boingboing.

Fighting Robots » Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

Supporting Innovation: Georgia Tech Edison Fund Provides Funding for Early-Stage Technology Companies
November 9, 2007

Thomas Edison often receives credit for inventing the electric light bulb, though his real accomplishment was in making the device -- as well as the phonograph and motion picture camera -- commercially successful. That focus on commercializing innovation is now providing the foundation for a new venture bearing Edison's name at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Stephen Fleming, Georgia Tech's chief commercialization officer, will manage the new Georgia Tech Edison Fund.
Launched by a multi-year grant from the Charles A. Edison Fund -- which is named for the inventor's son, a successful businessman and former governor of New Jersey -- the Georgia Tech Edison Fund will provide seed funding for early-stage technology companies that have a close association with Georgia Tech.

"We will focus on startups at the very early stage, because that's the hardest money for an entrepreneur to find," explained Stephen Fleming, Georgia Tech's chief commercialization officer and manager of the new fund. "Once companies have customers, a product and some traction in the marketplace, they can interest larger investors."

Early stage funding in Georgia.

Memestreams: hit this guy up for some cash to sell meme appliances to businesses.

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Pecha Kucha Night, devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture), was conceived in 2003 as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. (Admittedly, it was also a way to get more people to visit SuperDeluxe - their then newly opened multimedia event space in Tokyo).

But as we all know, give a mike to a designer (especially an architect) and you'll be trapped for hours. The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system for avoiding this fate. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each - giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.

Pecha Kucha (which is Japanese for the sound of conversation) has tapped into a demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown, without having to rent a gallery or chat up a magazine editor. This is a demand that seems to be global - as Pecha Kucha Night, without any pushing, has spread virally to over 80 cities across the world. Find a location and join the conversation.

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Usually, programs are written and documented in English, and use English at execution time for interacting with users. This is true not only from within GNU, but also in a great deal of proprietary and free software. Using a common language is quite handy for communication between developers, maintainers and users from all countries. On the other hand, most people are less comfortable with English than with their own native language, and would rather be using their mother tongue for day to day's work, as far as possible. Many would simply love seeing their computer screen showing a lot less of English, and far more of their own language.

GNU `gettext' is an important step for the GNU Translation Project, as it is an asset on which we may build many other steps. This package offers to programmers, translators, and even users, a well integrated set of tools and documentation. Specifically, the GNU `gettext' utilities are a set of tools that provides a framework to help other GNU packages produce multi-lingual messages. These tools include a set of conventions about how programs should be written to support message catalogs, a directory and file naming organization for the message catalogs themselves, a runtime library supporting the retrieval of translated messages, and a few stand-alone programs to massage in various ways the sets of translatable strings, or already translated strings. A special GNU Emacs mode also helps interested parties in preparing these sets, or bringing them up to date.

Online Manual is available at www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html

gettext - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

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Fundamental Algorithms, Third Edition (Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1997), xx 650pp. ISBN 0-201-89683-4
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How many of you guys have read this? I just cracked it last night, and I'm thinking of working my way through it in 2008 as well as learning LISP, as web development is becoming mundane.

The Art of Computer Programming

Lisp Primer
Colin Allen - Maneesh Dhagat

copyright 1996-2006

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