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Human factors methods (Oct 28 2003 22:59 GMT) - Thanks to elearningpost, I've become aware of a list of human-centred design methods, published by the Illinois Institute of Technology. The list hasn't been updated in a while, but it does give a very useful overview of a wide range... |
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Human factors methods (Oct 28 2003 22:59 GMT) - Thanks to elearningpost, I've become aware of a list of human-centred design methods, published by the Illinois Institute of Technology. The list hasn't been updated in a while, but it does give a very useful overview of a wide range... |
California Insider
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Lungren launches (Oct 28 2003 22:59 GMT) - Former congressman and California Atty. Gen. Dan Lungren has formally opened his campaign for the 3rd District congressional seat now held by Doug Ose, who is retiring. Lungren will face off against state Sen. Rico Oller in the Republican primary... |
The Review
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Fisking Clark & Kerry (Oct 28 2003 22:59 GMT) - (Review) Andrew Sullivan takes to the pages of The New Republic to deliver a stout fisking of Gen. Wesley Clark and Sen. John Kerry for their remarks about Iraq on the Sunday chat shows. He concludes by recalling a recent... |
Microsoft Download Center
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Microsoft Dynamic Systems Initiative (Oct 28 2003 22:59 GMT) - The Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI) is a Microsoft and industry effort to enhance the Microsoft® Windows® platform and deliver a coordinated set of solutions that dramatically simplify and automate how businesses design, deploy, and operate distributed systems |
LISNews.com
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Amazon as Search Tool (Oct 28 2003 22:59 GMT) - Bibliofuture writes "Slate has an interesting article, "The Best Search Idea Since Google: How Amazon can make money from books you already own." The author mentions how Amazon's new "Search Inside" feature can be used to search not only books one might consider buying, but also those one already owns. The full story. Is your current OPAC so lousey that you find yourself at amazon. |
LISNews.com
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The Paris Review will continue (Oct 28 2003 22:59 GMT) - The Village Voice reports that The Paris Review will continue depite the recent death of its editor and one of its founders, George Plimpton. Last week's Plimpton tribute, a celebrity-studded gala at Cipriani on 42nd Street, raised $500,000 for the Paris Review Foundation, bringing the foundation's endowment to about $1 million. Now literary insiders are buzzing about how what used to be a for-profit magazine that lost money every year has turned into a bustling nonprofit with a shot at long-term profitability. Meanwhile, the search for a new editor has begun. |
LISNews.com
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The Case of the Missing Marketing Blitz (Oct 28 2003 22:59 GMT) - A New York Observer article about the lack of marketing - and thus ordering by Barnes Noble - for Julie Hecht's The Unprofessionals. To sell a book without Barnes and Noble is like trying to make bouillabaisse without fish: The retailer is a basic and noticeable ingredient. And it’s hard to believe that Random House "forgot" to approach the Barnes and Noble buyers. |
Network Edge
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Friendster Bugs (Oct 28 2003 22:58 GMT) - A former Yahoo! CEO, PayPal CEO, and current Google board member have together sunk more than $1 million into Friendster. Rumor has it that VC... |
collision detection
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The Trojan Defense (Oct 28 2003 22:57 GMT) - In July, a British man was cleared of charges that he had download child pornography. How? He claimed that a trojan-horse program had been the culprit; the program had downloaded the porn without his knowledge or consent. Now, a teenager in the U. |
How Appealing
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"Important redistricting case from the First Circuit" (Oct 28 2003 22:57 GMT) - "Important redistricting case from the First Circuit": That's what Rick Hasen of the "Election Law" blog says about this decision that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued today. I will read the decision |
jeansnow.net
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Introduction #1 (Oct 28 2003 22:57 GMT) - This is me now. My name is Jesper Larsson and I'm the brand new guestblogger at Tokyo Boy. First of all: big shout out to my main man in tokyo, mr Jean Snow who let's my share my swedish... |
Cryptonomicon.Net
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GPGMail Plugin for Apple's Mail.app Released (Oct 28 2003 22:56 GMT) - Readers who are Macintosh users may remember a story we ran here last summer about integrating PGP Inc.'s commercial email package into various Mail User Agents on the Macintosh (such as Mail.app and Entourage.) That article focused on the PGP commercial offering. We had intentionally ignored products without commercial support. |
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