PUBLIC MARKS from misspaige

I have one thing to say to the organizers of technology conferences: if you want to make sure that you include the "female perspective" to your program, just invite women to speak about the things they're doing. Putting smart people to discuss under a separate "women & technology" category is not doing the job.

Many of the BlogHer-organized panels were on topics of interest to the BlogHer community not strictly related to gender, for example an excellent panel on what happens when you mix personal blogging and professional life. At the same time, part of what BlogHer does is point out sexism in the blogosphere (e.g., the dismissal of “mommybloggers” by people who think it’s dandy for boys to blog about their toys), so some of the BlogHer panels did address those issues.

The veteran second baseman is currently on waivers, according to sources, and will likely be traded or released by Wednesday. With interest in Graffanino believed to be tepid, the Sox may opt to release him by March 29, which is the deadline for teams to get rid of players with non-guaranteed contracts and be only responsible for one-quarter of the salary.

Pop-Star’s Pregnancy Idealized In Brooklyn ‘Monument to Pro-Life’

Vongo is a trial online media distribution scheme by the cable network Starz. For $9.95 a month, you can download any films from their library, storing them locally for viewing as long as you maintain your membership and Vongo retains rights to the film. It's like the new Napster meets Netflix. You can also PPV more recent movies that have just left the first-run houses and stream the Starz network to your desktop.

If you have a MySpace account and you die, this is where you will end up. MyDeathSpace.com memorializes deceased MySpace users and picks up where a regular obituary leaves off.

Mr. Moussaoui said there were times when a Muslim can lie without being immoral: to reconcile Muslims, to answer "yes" when a wife asks, "Am I beautiful?" and to carry out jihad.

For the second straight day, the Red Sox were involved in a bench-clearing incident in a spring training game. Oh Tavaras, what a lousy-looking punch.

Mute Records is proud to announce the signing of Swedish troubadour Jose Gonzalez. To celebrate the signing, Mute will re-release his internationally highly acclaimed debut CD Veneer on April 4.

"Come a little closer," the billboard, which is located on the other side of the subway tracks, pleads "and you might need funeral services from Bergmann."

Neuroscience reveals that belief and logic activate different parts of the brain, and where belief and logic clash, humans will almost always opt for belief, sticking to it obstinately despite adverse evidence. Students offered alternative sets of statistics will choose the one that confirms their prejudices, and a dogged reliance on existing beliefs shows up emphatically in matters affecting health.

The Princeton Laptop Orchestra, founded last fall, can, with "15 first-year students on Macs connected to custom omnidirectional speakers" emulate a full-fledged orchestra. "Or an electronica band. Or a jazz combo. It's easy when the conductor keeps time via network clocks precise to 20 milliseconds."

Sarah's photos of Lincoln in the snow. So beautiful.

Thanks to rampant breeding among the dolts of the ecosystem, and the leftist sentiments to Leave No Tard Behind, reproductive fitness has little bearing on the course our evolutionary progress. That said, actually getting someone pregnant is still a gold-standard for an admission policy to passing on your genome. Guess which tard is getting left behind now?

dick jokes. ninjas. and robots.

Made by Malle Hawking (Weebleleezer). It is about 5m long, 1,40m wide and the height is about 1,20m. It contains over 200,000 Bricks and weighs over 160 Kilos and a five digit amount of costs. Building time was over one year and it will finish end of March 06. It has electrical lights on deck, hangar and aircrafts. Moveable Elevators and radar dishes and finally a motorized catapult!

The Fujifilm FinePix F30 is a compact 6-megapixel digital camera that can handle ISO sensitivity settings as high as 3,200. Now we can have amazing photos taken under the sheets. Or I mean when we go see bands play, yeah.

The 50-passenger Embraer 145 making the two-hour flight from St. Louis to Austin had just three seats per row and one tiny bathroom, which is where Catherine "Cat" Chow hid Saturday as the plane took off, desperate, she later told a federal agent, to get to the South by Southwest Music Festival.

Weinberger takes blogging -- and blog-reading -- seriously. But he won't read your every word. He couldn't possibly.

It really is a biker fight.

Weill Cornell Medical College scientists say they've determined a protein produced by HIV infected cells prevents immune B cells from producing antibodies.

Leprechaun in Mobile, Alabama

Elmo + NWA's Gangsta Gangsta = ElmoGangsta

Soon To Be Revealed

The famous tech blog, Engadget, is under fire tonight for allegedly plagiarizing stories. I first heard of this story via RSS from the Blog Herald (the entry is now removed for unknown reasonshere) and subsequently from ProBlogger. The story is surfacing over at Digg which could mean legitimacy or a wildfire case of mistaken understanding.