Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 19:23:19 -0600
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From: Patrick Douglas Crispen
Subject: TOURBUS -- 25 FEBRUARY 1999 -- EDUPAGE / SAVE THE CHIMPS
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TODAY'S TOURBUS ADDRESS(ES):
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http://snopes.simplenet.com/spoons/faxlore/chimp.htm
http://www.seattletimes.com/news/health-science/html98/chim_020199.html
In the "better late than never" category, I am proud to present last
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On with the show ...
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Edupage
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It has been about two years since we first visited Edupage, a free e-
mail newsletter that highlights the latest developments in the field
of information technology. Distributed three times a week, Edupage
offers one-paragraph snippets of the latest technology news culled
from the mainstream media.
For example, here is just one of the stories that appeared in a recent
issue of Edupage:
MCI WORLDCOM BEGINS UPGRADE OF NSF BACKBONE NETWORK
MCI WorldCom, which has a five-year contract to operate the
National Science Foundation's vBNS ("very-high-speed Backbone
Network Service) has begun a major upgrade of that network that
will quadruple its capacity. The LA-to-SF portion of the network
will be the first to be upgraded to allow the movement of 2.5
gigabits of data per second, which is equivalent to more than
what 1,600 T-1 lines can carry. (Los Angeles Times 19 Feb 99)
[For the layman -- and for those of you who are participating in the
Squirrel Hunt at http://netsquirrel.com/hunt/ -- 2.5 gigabits per
second is the equivalent of transferring almost 300 MEGABYTES of data
per second. By way of comparison, a 28.8 modem transfers a paltry 3.5
kilobytes of data per second.]
Most issues of Edupage contain eight stories -- four "top stories" and
four "also" stories. Since each story is, like the example above,
only one paragraph in length, Edupage is a breeze to read. Each issue
is only a page or two in length.
You can find the most recent archives of Edupage online at
http://www.educause.edu/pub/edupage/edupage.html
and subscribing to Edupage couldn't be simpler: just send a blank
email message to
subscribe@educause.unc.edu.
That's it. :)
Two years ago I wrote that
Edupage is clearly one of my favorite resources on the Net. It
provides cutting-edge technology information in a size that is
easy to digest, and as a professional college student I *often*
find myself quoting and applying the information that I have
found in Edupage.
Even though I am no longer a professional college student -- I
*FINALLY* graduated -- I still rank Edupage as one of my top three or
four favorite online resources. :)
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UPDATE: Save The Chimps
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In my October 15th post, I informed you that an email petition for
"people who would like to see the Air Force place 143 chimpanzees
in retirement sanctuaries" was a hoax. I reached that conclusion
because the email address to which you were told to send the petition
did not work.
I was mistaken. As Barbara Mikkelson points out in a recent article,
The petition is real. It's also useless in the way all e-
petitions are. Because it's a simple matter to write a program
that will generate names and tag them onto the end of a document,
no one in a position of influence is going to give a cyber-
missive any weight. Petitions signed in ink get scant respect;
an e-petition gets far less than that.
Mikkelson also points out a significant fact missing from the email
petition:
The Air Force gave up the chimps in 1998 -- 110 to the Coulston
Foundation (a research facility that has leased many of these
chimps for the last 40 years) and 31 to Primarily Primates (a
primate sanctuary). Though the petition uses phrases like "The
Air Force is planning to relinquish ownership," the truth is, it
already has. The deal is done; the best anyone can do now is
work to see it revised.
... The petition makes it sound like it's only a matter of
getting the Air Force to release the animals to rescue groups
just waiting to take them off the Air Force's hands. The reality
is far different -- even if those groups are interested in taking
the chimps, they can't afford to care for them.
In other words, the "save the chimps" email petition isn't actually a
hoax. It is just misguided and misleading. To learn the whole story
behind the petition, take a look at Mikkelson's chimp article at
http://snopes.simplenet.com/spoons/faxlore/chimp.htm .
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A Little Trivia
---------------
Since we are talking about Air Force chimpanzees, I thought I'd
mention the following news story from the Seattle Times:
.
>http://www.seattletimes.com/news/health-science/html98/chim_020199.html .
Pay particular attention to the school at where this research was
conducted (my home state of Alabama is not quite as "backwards" as you
might imagine). :)
That's it for this week! Have a safe and happy next couple of days,
and I will (hopefully) talk to you again on Thursday. No, really. :)
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TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP(S):
Edupage / Save The Chimps
TODAY'S TOURBUS ADDRESS(ES):
http://www.educause.edu/pub/edupage/edupage.html
http://snopes.simplenet.com/spoons/faxlore/chimp.htm
http://www.seattletimes.com/news/health-science/html98/chim_020199.html
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 22:24:50 -0600
Reply-To: TOURBUS-Request@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
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Comments: Originally-From: Patrick Douglas Crispen
From: Patrick Douglas Crispen
Subject: TOURBUS -- 25 FEBRUARY 1999 -- CORRECTION
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Whoops! I goofed. The correct way to subscribe to Edupage is to send a
blank email letter to
edupage-subscribe@educause.unc.edu
Sorry for the confusion. I guess I haven't quite gotten over the flu. :)
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