In a sensational interview with Russian Today, “trends analyst” Gerald Celente makes several predictions about the near future. Some of the predictions are safe bets for any professional prognosticator, such as that the market for locally grown produce will soar in the midst of increasingly frequent recalls of mass produced food. However, when Celente focuses his crystal ball on the political furor over Wikileaks, we find him making the rather alarming claim that a devastating cyber war is just on the horizon.

These items have been in my blogging queue for awhile now, but only now getting time to post them! The first is some news from Inside Higher Ed: Wikipedia for Credit. It concerns nine professors who are working with Wikimedia to weave Wikipedia into their courses. However, I'm disappointed that it doesn't mention the Rhet Comp Wikitext.

My 11yo gamer son plays a text adventure for the first time... and asks for another one before bedtime. We stayed up until almost midnight, and I posted these screencasts the next day.

We started with Adam Cadre's "9:05", and continued with the Crowther and Woods classic "Colossal Cave Adventure".

Here's an update on my earlier post about the Austin teacher who confiscated her students' linux distros: Character-Assasinations-Ain't-Us. The author here seems to want to mend the damage and soften up the rhetoric from the Linux community towards this ignorant teacher. Here's a snip: