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Once again we have the quality and dedication of our students in full boom here at the University of Mary Washington. Like the cherry blossoms and the pear trees, we have some beautiful presentations happening here at Student Academy 2007.

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Immigration: The Human Cost

Sometimes “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” just aren’t enough. If you agree with that statement then you’ll be happy to know that The Onion is now doing video. Introducing the Onion News Network. From their front page:

The Onion News Network has set the standard for globe-encompassing 24-hour television news since it was founded in December, 1892. The network boasts channels in 171 languages and can be viewed in 4.2 billion households in 811 countries.

Now a fun game to play will be to see how often the “real” networks are indistinguishable from ONN.

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This looks like interesting stuff. Mojopac is essentially your PC on a mobile hard drive (iPod, USB flash drive, etc.). You use an existing computer and just insert your “mojopacked” drive into a free USB port. When the computer recognizes the device it gives you the option to load your files. It will NOT affect the computer you are using, and you can even switch back and forth between the “host” PC and your mojo PC. This may answer a need for faculty/staff/students about whether they should bring their laptop to the classroom, a conference, or elsewhere. I haven’t tried it yet, but it sure looks promising.

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I was disappointed that they created Times Select in the first place, but at least now you can access the archive of articles online for free from the convenience of your web browser. That is if you have a “.edu” email address.

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Here’s a beauty. When I was experiencing some password problems for a Drupal install, I decided to go into my Firefox Options (Preferences for you Mac folk) and reset my saved password. So I went to Tools>Options and selected the Security tab. In the Passwords area I chose Show Passwords. It listed all of my saved passwords, which I assumed somehow were encrypted/blocked out/dotted/whatever. NOPE! I could see all of my passwords for all of the sites for which I clicked “remember password”. Some sites aren’t all that important, but in some cases I have network passwords saved in this area. If I walked away my computer for a brief period of time, someone would be able to see those passwords if they knew where to look. Try it yourself and see if you feel comfortable having this info out in the open. Better start making sure you log out of your machine before you leave it. Oh, and you do have your computer password protected right?

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