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- This hour's show is called Zero Hour (New Variety). The main Whole Wheat Radio site is at: http://www. wholewheatradio. |
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- Seymour Hersch's new article in the New Yorker provides a detailed version of the events surrounding Bush administration claims of... |
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- Seymour Hersch's new article in the New Yorker provides a detailed version of the events surrounding Bush administration claims of... |
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- ProSQL 2.0, Logitech Pocket Digital 130 og Cocktail er igen opdateret. |
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- Elektronisk post er uundværligt, men samtidig mister virksomheder og den enkelte medarbejder let overblikket over hvad der faktisk sker i sagerne. EmailJournal er et komplet, overskueligt, og dansk-udviklet system der sikrer fuldt overblik over hele virksomhedens e-mail korrespondance. |
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- Michele Wisneski writes:I'm a second year library science student organizing a book drive for a school in Sierra Leone. Their library was destroyed during the fighting in 1998. Info on the book drive is available on my website: www. |
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- On the Minnesota Public radio version of Morning Edition this morning there was a excellent report on Text Mining at UC - Berkeley from Jon Gordon's Future Tense. Researchers overwhelmed by the sheer volume of knowledge in their fields have a promising new tool. It’s called text mining.[via South Dakota] |
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- Charles Davis writes "from The Daily Telegraph: The National Trust's ban on staghunting on its land has cost it the ownership of one of Britain's finest collections of books on country houses. The £500,000 collection of more than 2,000 books, which belonged to the country sports enthusiast David Clegg, will be auctioned rather than left to the Trust, which owns many of Britain's stately homes.... [The donor] was so angered by the Trust's ban on staghunting on its land, which was imposed in 1997, that he changed his will." Various U. |
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- The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that the Northwest Bookfest, a Seattle bookfair and author forum experienced a steep decline in attendance in its first year of charging a mandatory $10 admission. Attendance this year was estimated at around 20,000, less than previous years' 25,000 attendees. Exhibitor numbers were down as well, with antiquarian and other specialty vendors concerned with leaks and pigeon droppings in the event's venue--a former airplane hanger. Highlights included perennial crowd-pleaser, author Sherman Alexie, and librarian and action-figure inspirerer Nancy Pearl. |
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- In an effort to ensure the safety of children visiting their library, the Renfrewshire Council, Scotland, has instituted a strict safety code which forbids staff to have any physical contact with children. Staff are not allowed to accompany children to the bathroom, hold hands or touch children in any way. The guidelines apply to patrons as well as library employees. According to librarian Jane Gourlay, "the increased use of the libraries by children surfing the internet had heightened the need for a new approach." More here at BBC News. |
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- The Chicago Tribune Has One on Helen Myers, who started a library in a wisp of a town in the remote region of Illinois known as "Forgottonia" by hauling her own books to a building with little more room than a back-yard shed. She maintained the Ellisville Library, all 140 square feet of it, by selling sugar cookies shaped like Fulton County and souvenir plastic bags of slag from a nearby shuttered coal mine, through book sales and yard sales--and by donating thousands of dollars. But the smallest library in Illinois wore out. Over the years its floors rotted and Myers worried it would collapse. She decided that this town of 85 people on the banks of the Spoon River 45 miles west of Peoria--the same Spoon River immortalized by writer Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology"--needed a new library. |
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- The Denver Post Looks At the new Pueblo, Colorado, Robert Hoag Rawlings Public Library. They say it joins the ranks of the state's premier pieces of architecture. While not on the level of, say, Walter Netsch's Air Force Academy Chapel in Colorado Springs or I.M. Pei's National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, it is not far behind. |
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- Forget the much-discussed librarian action figure. Came across this inexplicable ebay item: "Librarian in terminator armor with force weapon and lightning claw." Since this is from New South Wales, Australia, I can only surmise that librarian education and training is a little different than it is here in the US. Hurry, kids, only 3 days left to bid! |
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- Bob Cox spotted a SunSpot.net article on John E. Taylor, an archivist who specializes in war and intelligence, who has been at it for 58 years. At 82, Taylor still spends the day juggling queries from eminent historians and college kids alike. He receives professors visiting from Tokyo or Rome. |
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- A Toronto Star Article covers Azar Nafisi, ran a clandestine reading group in her Tehran apartment for seven young women who had been her best students.In her recently published memoir, Reading Lolita In Tehran (Random House), Nafisi writes that Mitra, a student in her secret class, once asked her, "Why is it that stories like Lolita and Madame Bovary — stories that are so sad, so tragic — make us happy? If we were to write about our lives here in the Islamic Republic of Iran, should we make our readers happy?" |
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- Books bound to inspire is an SFGate Story on The 1000 Journals Project. It's part social experiment, part intercontinental art show. It was started in San Francisco by a 30-year-old graphic designer who goes by the handle "Someguy'' and finds inspiration in Surrealism and bathroom wall screeds. The journals have traveled like a modern-day message in a bottle through 35 countries and 50 states. As they have passed from hand to hand, the journals have been hidden in caves, abandoned in airports and used for hide- and-seek. |
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- Biblia, the Warrior Librarian writes "Although not thrilled with the image portrayed by the Pearl Librarian action doll, I'm still pondering whether it is better, or worse, than that proposed by the UK Guardian where an article leads with the statement that "Libraries are brothels for the mind ..."The Story, is at the Guardian" Some great quotes in this one! "Libraries were the original internet. All knowledge was available even in a local branch library. You could order a book and, if they didn't have it, they'd get it from a library in Yorkshire that did. |
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- Gary "Visit The ResourceShelf" Price spotted a story on Richard Edward Brillhart, a 23-year-old registered sex offender, was charged with the federal crimes of possession and transportation of child pornography. The agents taped him with cameras hidden behind book stacks. Brillhart, 21800 block Haines St., was being held at the Lee County jail Friday, pending a detention hearing Tuesday in U.S. |
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- Back in April The BBC asked readers to nominate their best-loved books. The Top 21 List is up, and now you can tell them what your favourite Big Read of all is. Vote for your favourite. |
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BusinessLaw (Oct 21 2003 08:57 GMT) - Die neue US-Seite "BusinessLaw" bietet eine Fülle an Informationen und Recherchen; für den mit dem Thema befassten Experten dürften in... |
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- John Ashcroft's war on those he deems 'enemies' in the US -- that is, everyone that doesn't share his fiercely reactionary views -- is brilliantly documented in a new book Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the 'War on Terrorism', by David Cole, professor at Georgetown University Law Center and a renowned expert on constitutional law. Cole makes it clear that the current outrageous and arbitrary treatment of at least 5,000 aliens by Ashcroft and his Patriot Act stormtroopers -- including arbitrary arrest, deprivation of access to a telephone, to legal counsel, food and water, long periods of solitary confinement, arbitrary deportation, confiscation and destruction of property, and indefinite confinement at hell-holes like Guantanamo without charges and in violation of the Geneva convention -- is just a dress rehearsal for similar draconian treatment for citizens who dare question the wisdom of the US Administration. This will be enabled by new legislation, the Domestic Security Enhancement Act, to be pushed through under the guise of 'fighting terrorism', that will further strip away the basic rights and freedoms of Americans to expose anyone who isn't a Bush Patriot, and then deprive them of their citizenship so they can be treated as -- guess what -- aliens. Cole shows Ashcroft as a man without moral scruples, engaged in an all-out pathological war on imagined and trumped-up 'enemies' -- anyone who doesn't support the Government without question, without condition, without reservation. |
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- Die verschobenen Wahlen zur nordirischen Regionalregierung sollen nach Angaben der britischen Regierung am 26. November stattfinden. Dies könnte bedeuten, dass sich Protestanten und Katholiken auf eine Rückkehr zur Zusammenarbeit in der Regionalregierung geeinigt haben. |
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- Smallest fantasy football margin of victory (0.01 point) I've ever seen. For those not in the league, rushing and receiving... |
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- Greetings if you came here from Dave Winer's Scripting News. I appreciate the mention of my blog on Dave's enormously popular one, and hope that you'll tell me what you think of How to Save the World, and that you'll come back and visit again |
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JoelHolveck (Oct 21 2003 08:55 GMT) - Add homepage linking conventions |
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- The Commissar, who has become a revolutionary since I last visited his blog, has a suggestion for replacing Turkish troops in Iraq with troops that... |
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- I was cleaning up and I found these demos I used to do when showing off .NET Framework multiple language support. · |
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- Maria i Tanzania: "Regnet paverkar ocksa elen och det blir manga kortslutningar och elavbrott. Jag satt igar pa ett inernetcafe nar plotsligt det small till utanfor och sa blev det svart. Det visade sig vara en kortsluting i en transformatorstation utanfor...." |
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- I söndags säkrade han sitt andra raka svenska mästartecken. Nu ger sig Sören Åkeby ut på jakt efter den danska mästartiteln. Århus blir nästa adress för mästartränaren. |
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- Halmstads skyttekung Igor Sypniewski är nära att skriva på för Malmö FF. Enligt Sportbladet har Sypniewski erbjudits ett kontrakt på fem år och affären väntas bli offentlig inom kort. |
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- Den amerikanske basketstjärnan Kobe Bryant kommer att ställas inför rätta misstänkt för att ha våldtagit en kvinna på sitt rum på ett lyxhotell i Colorado tidigare i år, beslutade en domare på måndagen. |
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- AIK Hockey har stora ekonomiska problem och nu har de fått nya problem. Klubben kan tvingas ta bort det utländska spelbolagets namn som finns på spelarnas tröja. |
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- "VM-brons i fotboll är större än seger i Stabley Cup" Eftersom det är ditt jobb att bevaka NHL, så kan du förmodligen inte inse att en bronsmedalj i ett fotbolls-VM är OÄNDLIGT mycket större än en seger i Stanley Cup! Fotboll är en universell idrott, som intresserar folk och raser på alla kontinenter. Ishockey - en angelägenhet för (norra) Europa och Nordamerika. Idrottsmän skall väl hyllas för den faktiska bedrift de har utfört, eller hur? Med ditt resonemang, så skulle det vara OK att fylla Kungsträdgården i syfte att hylla världsmästarna i bandy (vem bryr sig?!? |
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- Svensklaget Vancouver börjar få fart på skridskorna och träffa rätt med skotten. Under natten till tisdagen utklassade man Buffalo hemma i ishockeyns NHL. |
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- New design, new logo and new products on the SocialText site. |
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- First Micromovie in the Can. About seven Chattanooga [Tennessee, USA]-area residents (including Jim Burer and myself) showed up at Jimmy's yesterday for the first in what will hopefully become a series of one-day productions designed to A) allow experienced filmmakers to experiment and to try on new production-team hats; and B) to give neophytes and those who are simply curious a chance to try their hand at filmmaking. [Jarrod Whaley: Filming the Scenic City] |
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