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Ethical Issues of Capital Punishment

This just hit my inbox:
Greetings,
On behalf of The Parr Center For Ethics, I’d like to invite members of your student group to attend our upcoming panel discussion regarding the ethical issues of Capital Punishment.  The Date is Tuesday, October 2nd at 7:30pm and the place is Carroll Hall.
The Panel will feature:
Carl Fox- NC Superior Court [...]

Why were the sprinklers on?

Are we out of the drought already? I was in Manning Hall late waiting for a ride, and when I came out the sprinklers were on:

It had rained a little bit earlier, so I was even more confused. Why were the sprinklers on?

Sorry for the bad pictures… I guess I was too angry and frustrated… [...]

sfd2007 at UNC on lulu.tv

With apologies for the noise during the interview bits, enjoy the video:
[EDIT: lulu.tv is dead. Leaving in flash object code for posterity]

map to SILS lunch

Lunch Monday (SILS celebration) will be in Hyde Hall, which I hadn’t heard of. It’s here:
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Software Freedom Day this Friday the 14th

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

CONTACT:
Cristóbal Palmer
Carolina Open Source Initiative
(919) 962-5646
cristobalpalmer@gmail.com
www.ibiblio.org/cosi

Software Freedom Day Celebration Coming to Chapel Hill

Open source software demonstrations and presentations

Friday, 14 September 2007, 10am-4pm

FPG Student Union, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (map)

Chapel Hill, NC – The international celebration of Software Freedom Day will come a day early to UNC-CH, on Friday, [...]

SFD parking: a google map

Below is a google map with flags for Software Freedom Day, especially the main location and two options for parking. Here’s a link to the map if for some reason the iframe below doesn’t work for you. Please distribute this map and give me feedback. What’d I leave off? How could I make this more [...]

An XML class with H. Cayless

18:00
I’m in a class on XML. It’s the third of three classes so far this week, except that my second class didn’t meet last night as scheduled. This instructor is a brave soul. He’s put his email and IM contacts at the top of the syllabus.
18:35
He’s won me over:

He’s sick with a cold and still [...]

First Class: Systems Analysis

I’m sitting in my first class as a Masters of Information Science student at UNC Chapel Hill. It’s INLS 582-001: Systems Analysis. My professor is Stephanie Haas. The class website is http://ils.unc.edu/~stephani/safa07/home.html
I’ll update this post later with thoughts on the class.
Quick impressions:

Dr. Haas doesn’t want me to blog class slides or other class materials since [...]

COSI has too many public faces

I’m struggling with the fact that COSI has the following:

a wiki on ibiblio
a CMS with slice.unc.edu
a facebook group
several mailing lists

For an organization five times our age and forty times our size, I think the above would be perfect. As it is I’m feeling overwhelmed trying to keep track of what’s showing up where. I think [...]