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• All the presidents of Italy’s universities resigned in December in protest of budget cuts to higher education. It seems to me that this was a gutsy, definitive action, but I haven’t been able to track down any press on the result of this large-scale resignation.
• Two recent books that appeal: Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System that Shapes their Lives, by Jeff Schmidt and Aristotle’s Poetics for Screenwriters: Storytelling Secrets from the Greatest Mind in Western Civilization, by Michael Tierno.
• 2003 to 2012 has been declared the “Decade of Literacy“.
• Duct tape is the new black [via memepool].
• Another virtual community of digital artists is just what the web needs. Meet Pleix.
• SpellChecker.net, the spell checking utility used by Blogger Pro does not recognise the words “blog” or “blogging”. Or “Blogger” for that matter. Maybe now, with all that Google money behind them, they’ll work on getting the word “blog” and all its derivatives added to the lexicon.
• People don’t like it when you say you made pie when really you made jewellery.