Cheap Therapy

Anyone out there got any recommendations on places to get perspex laser or water cut from SolidWorks or DXF files? Any idea how much it costs?

I heard today that the University of Queensland’s
medical faculty have announced that they’re going to stop lecturing, put all the course materials online, and spend the teaching time in smaller tutorials instead.

Meanwhile the University of New South Wales have formally re-defined lecture attendance so that students who aren’t physically present at the lecture but view the material online are considered to have attended. They’re also sending lecturers out to remote sites (ie mine sites, archaelogical digs, etc.) with video goggles displaying images of the lecture theatre, and a wireless camera linked back to a laptop and thence via Breeze back to the University, so the lecturer can present the class from the field.

Meanwhile Universities are physically looking at changing lecture spaces to be smaller and more interactive.

I expect it will end with University-in-a-box, stuck in a server room somewhere, and holding the world’s best lecturers on every subject imaginable. Log on, grab some lectures, do your coursework, do some online tests, chat with other students, try out your hand at practical stuff in a VR simulation, sit your exams, download the PDF of your degree, or order it and have it couriered to you. Hopefully you’ll be able to do it without you submitting your credit card number first.

Meanwhile Yahoo have been hiring lecture recording experts from prestigious US higher-ed institutions. I wonder what they’re planning?

Fab@Home looks very cool. Seriously thinking of making one to add to the World Domination Toolkit.

Dell are offering a $500 rebate if you buy a 30″ monitor online, making their price $1999, up until 30th November. E-value code is N143007W

They’re not from some far off planet after all, they’re from Canada.

Saw this via a Google ad, PerthNorg is a Perth News Organisation (hence Norg) where Cit J’s like us can submit articles and others rank them.

Given that there’s only one local paper in town, who knows, their site might take off.

I’m sure there’s a movie in there somewhere when NASA goes to the museum and gets some bits back to use on an actual space shuttle. Well, ok, keep as spares for the actual space shuttle.

Amazing pre-natal photos (models? reconstructions?) of Elephants and Dolphins

Although it sounds like the Elephant photos were the hardest to get.

Just in case there’s anyone out there looking for a programming job and not subscribed to Joel On Software’s Jobs RSS feed, there’s a programming job with Optimal Decisions Group going in Melbourne. They score a respectable 9/12 on the Joel test.