"So many weird lessons, yet so little time for proper teaching"

The government wants to warn children about domestic violence. It would be best to teach them to read and write...

 When Rozina Akhtar, from Blackburn, declined an arranged marriage to a Pakistani first cousin, her father, Aurang Zeb, ignored her wishes. He duly became the first Briton to be made the subject of a forced marriage protection order. As undeterred by the courts as he was by the opinions of his wife and daughter, Mr Zeb began a campaign of intimidation, designed to salvage the family honour. He stalked his estranged wife and children, bombarded them with phone calls, speculated on the sentence for domestic murder (between five and seven years, he thought) and told his wife he was going to kill her and cut out her tongue. A couple of weeks ago, a judge gave him an exemplary punishment.

Mr Zeb was fined £85 costs and told to do 200 hours of unpaid community service. Which is 50 fewer hours of community service than were imposed on a 19-year-old student whose crime was to piss, when blind drunk, on a Sheffield war memorial.

The government is probably wise, given the complex business of assessing human culpability, to introduce children to the evils of domestic violence before they are able to read. At five, few will quibble when teachers insist, obviously using age-appropriate learning materials, that there must be zero tolerance of domestic violence. It would be an unlucky teacher who, perhaps having acted out a cautionary tale, with an angry teddy playing the part of Mr Zeb, encountered a child who questions the indulgence shown to this horrible man (whose family, even after his sentence, were too scared to comment).

READ more at: guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/29/education-domestic-violence

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"Remarks about gays spark debate about free speech at Purdue"

"Purdue professor's blog post sparks debate"

A Purdue University professor has landed in hot water with students protesting his personal blog -- a conservative Web page on which he posted an "economic case against homosexuality."

Some have called for Bert Chapman to resign or be fired for his Oct. 27 posting, which laid out an argument that the cost for AIDS research and treatment should factor into the national debate over the acceptance of gays and lesbians.

"The most concrete way to protect the university's reputation against academic dishonesty and mediocrity is for him to resign," said Purdue senior Kevin Casimer, who is organizing a petition campaign against the professor.

"However, if Purdue administrators and faculty make a unified statement that (Chapman's writings) are unprofessional and detrimental to Purdue's reputation and not reflective of the university, the same effect might be made."

DETAILS at: indystar.com/article/20091112/NEWS/911120519/Purdue-professor-s-blog-post-about-gays-sparks-free-speech-debate

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"Flu-Related Telecommuting Could Clog Web Traffic, Feds Warn"

Fears that the H1N1 flu pandemic could bring down the Internet may be overblown, but it's quite possible that some ISPs could succumb. Internet traffic patterns would be drastically altered if a huge number of people were to start working from home all at once, and there's no easy and obvious way for ISPs to manage those shifting loads.

Talk of a flu pandemic has evolved into a bit of flu panic. Rumors fly as some people die and others deny. Much of this fevered buzz is on and around the Internet. The fear that the Internet itself will crash is growing.

The alarm is based on the presumption that as the flu spreads, so does the base of home telecommuters, placing such a burden on the Internet that the whole World Wide Web will topple. But is that fear a true possibility?

The U.S. government seems to think the scenario is not only possible, but probable.

Internet Failure, Homeland Insecurity
READ more at: technewsworld.com/story/68514.html
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"How to Spot a Fake Twitter Account"

"How to spot a hoax Twitter account – a case study"

If you were following the Jan Moir-Stephen Gateley story that was all over Twitter today you may have come across a Twitter account claiming to be Jan Moir herself –  @janmoir_uk. It wasn’t her – but it was a convincing attempt, and I thought it might be worth picking out how I and other Twitter users tried to work out the account’s legitimacy. 

But there were some other too-good-to-be-true claims in her tweets.  One said “My son is gay. I am not homophobic. Please read my article properly.” Does Jan Moir have a son? Is he gay? Would she announce it on Twitter?


And finally, the promise of a formal apology and the tweeted apology itself ticked the too-good-to-be-true box.

READ more at: onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/10/16/how-to-spot-a-hoax-twitter-account-a-case-study/
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