Network Practices Can Endanger Students' Privacy, Registrars' Report Warns (Chron of Higher Ed) "A simple act, like a student's logging on to a computer network, can compromise the confidentiality of private records, warns a report soon to be released by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers."

Joshua Kosman (SF Chronicle) enjoys the music of Morimur but calls its numerological interpretation "mumbo jumbo".

Andrew McGregor (BBC) also reviews Morimur.  "You may not want to play this every time you think of the D minor Partita, but it's deeply affecting, and beautifully realised…and ECM's been intelligent enough to give us a number of possibilities, recording two versions of the Chaconne, with and without voices, so if you want you can programme Christoph Poppen's performance of the Partita with no vocal interventions at all. But I bet you won't want to after you've heard them together." [The article is currently online; should the link break, you can read an archived version.] 

I was pleased to see Dan Gillmor's Soliciting ideas to fight terrorism is right approach this morning.  I was trying to get at some of the same ideas a few weeks ago in my own blog.

Thanks, Lloyd, for pointing out the UN website devoted to the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan -- and for focusing our attention on the issue.  Does anyone know of any major advocates for this matter in the US to get massive structural help for this cause or are we left to making individual financial donations to organizations as the UN or the Quakers?