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- An interesting mix of new title announcements this week including: Kevin Smith's Jersey Girl on 9/14 - a film... |
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- Forum: Urine Testing Posted By: scrambler100 Post Time: 06-15-2004 at 02:55 AM |
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- Forum: Protecting Your Rights Posted By: punkjunkie Post Time: 06-15-2004 at 02:29 AM |
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- Forum: Events Posted By: Blitzed King Post Time: 06-15-2004 at 02:18 AM |
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- Part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service's "Guides to Good Practice" series, the "GIS guide to good practice" is intended to provide guidance in documenting and archiving datasets (both spatial and attribute) from Geographic Information Systems. The guide is an online version of a printed volume available from the AHDS, and as such is presented in the structured format of the book. It is aimed at individuals and organisations involved in the creation, maintenance, use and long-term preservation of GIS-based digital resources with particular emphasis on archaeological data, although the information presented has much wider disciplinary implications. The guide provides a source of useful introductory and generic information, as well as emphasising long-term preservation, archiving and effective data re-use, and the importance of adhering to recognised standards and the recording of essential pieces of information. (Archaeology Data Service (ADS)) |
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- This is the Web site for the Journal of Commonwealth Literature (JCL), which publishes scholarly articles and bibliographies relating to commonwealth, postcolonial and other new literatures in English. Edited by John Thieme (University of East Anglia, UK) and Geraldine Stoneham (South Bank University, UK), and published quarterly by Sage Publications, the journal produces three issues of critical commentary and one bibliographic issue per annum. The site details the aims and scope of the journal, and provides information about the editorial board and abstracting/ indexing, as well as manuscript submission. Tables of contents are available online from Volume 38 issue 1 (January 2003). (Lucy Valerie Graham) |
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- This is the web site for Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing, the official journal of the European Association of Commonwealth Languages and Literatures (EACLALS). Founded in 1979 by Anna Rutherford, and currently edited by Dr Anne Collett of the University of Wollongong in Australia, Kunapipi is a bi-annual journal of critical and creative writing with a focus on new literatures written in English. The site features information regarding the editorial board, subscription and submission information, as well as current and recent Tables of Contents (from issue XXI:1/1999), with links to the opening paragraphs of individual articles. |
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- This is the site for the interdisciplinary journal Body and Society, which is produced by the Theory, Culture and Society Centre at the Nottingham Trent University. Edited by Mike Featherstone and Bryan S. Turner, the journal was launched in 1995 and aims to publish analyses which take into account social and cultural constructions of the human body. It focuses on debates in "feminism, technology, ecology, postmodernism, medicine, ethics and consumerism which take the body as the central analystic issue in the questioning of established paradigms". Theorists covered include Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Helene Cixous, Deleuze and Guattari, Mary Douglas, Norbaert Elias, Michel Foucault, Donna Haraway, Julia Kristeva, Marcel Mauss, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. |
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- This is the web site for Theory, Culture and Society, a scholarly journal which publishes academic articles relating to critical theory, cultural studies and social science. Established in 1982 and currently edited by Mike Featherstone, the journal has been published by Sage Publications since 1987, and has included the work of leading international intellectuals in the humanities and social scientists. In 1999, the journal began to be published six times per year, and special issues have focussed on topics such as the state of modernity, global culture, potmodernism, the body, ethics and difference, and love and eroticism. The journal has also published interviews with figures such as Jean Baudrillard, Ulrich Beck, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Antony Giddons, Jurgen Habermas, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Michael Waltzer. The web site includes information about the journal's editorial board, subscription and submission information, as well as tables of contents for recent and forthcoming issues, and abstracts for issues from Volume 15. |
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- This online bibliography for the critical theorist Judith Butler (1956-) was compiled by Eddie Yeghiayan to accompany Butler's Wellek Library lecture series at the Critical Theory Institute, the University of California in 1998. Best known for her interrogation of cultural constructions of gender, and for developing a theory of performativity, Butler is one of the leading theorists in gender studies and post-structuralism. Presenting a comprehensive list of texts by Butler published between 1982 and 2001, the bibliography also lists reviews of Butler's work, as well as references to Butler and her work. (Lucy Valerie Graham) |
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- This web site is part of A Teachers Guide to the Holocaust, published by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology at the Center for Education, University of South Florida. This particular section, entitled Sinti and Roma, looks at the persecution of gypsy groups by the Nazis before and during the Second World War. The site is basically a guide to other resources available on the subject. Featured is a short introduction to the treatment of the Romani and the subsequent genocide, and then a list of further resources. This includes an in depth article, a bibliography, and selected web links. |
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O Porrajmos (Jun 15 2004 02:57 GMT) - This web site is published as part of the Patrin Web Journal, which is dedicated to Romani history and culture. This part of the site, O Porrajmos, provides a gateway to a range of resources on the Roma genocide in Nazi Germany. O Porrajmos is the Romani name for the Holocaust, and directly translated means 'the devouring'. On the site is a good selection of scholarly articles on the experience of the gypsies during World War Two, including some by the leading Roma academic Ian Hancock. The site also features a good number of links to other relevant web sites. |
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- Supplementing the book by Penny Dansart, the Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric pages at the Archaeology Data Service provide a series of colour digital photographs to accompany the print volume, as well as a summary of its content. The book examines in rich detail the practices of spinning yarn from the fleece of llamas and alpacas. It also explores the relationships that herders of the present and of the past have maintained with their herd animals in the Andes. The book juxtaposes an ethnography of an Aymara herding community, based on more than ten years fieldwork in Isluga in the Chilean highlands, with archaeological material from excavations in the Atacama desert. It also incorporates relevant historical evidence. |
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- The home page of the Swedish National Heritage Board, Riksantikvarieämbetet, encompassing a broad variety of useful resources concerning Swedish archaeology and cultural heritage management. These include: RAÄ excavation reports; RAÄ sites and monuments reports; A comprehensive photographic database of Swedish cultural and environmental heritage; |
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- Voices of Civil Rights is a joint project of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), which will reside at the Library of Congress. This web site is published by the AARP and LCCR, and features information on, and content from, the project. The focus of the collection is to provide access to the oral histories and personal memories of people involved in civil rights in the United States throughout the twentieth century. Material on the African American, Chicano, and gay civil rights movements is available, and the oral histories can be searched or browsed. The site also publishes interactive resources like a timeline and quizzes, photographs, video footage, essays, and project updates. |
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- We've use these at work for brown and black outs. Lovely, easy to use devices that are clean enough for medical or computer equipment. "Honda EU Series Generators. Quiet AC power" [Cool Tools] |
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- My first shot at digital video editing. I'm brand spanking new with my camcorder and iMovie, so please be kind. I know I have a LOT to learn. Hopefully I have improved a tad from my other movies with this one. We took a sail on Memorial Day weekend. |
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- Those are some nice looking guitars. Can you play any Cannibal Corpse on 'em ? |
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- PubMed -- Medical Research in the Palm of Your Hands "I just saw PubMed on Tap at freewarepalm.com. This is a wireless enabled Palm application (I think over any internet connection) that lets you search Pub Med, the free subset of Med-Line. Med-line is the repository of all current and recent medical research, with abstracts often available and full-text sometimes. While this is an amazing (and required) resource for medical professionals, savvy lay people will also find a wealth of information here. |
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USB hazards (Jun 15 2004 02:56 GMT) - Here's more about the problems with allowing unchecked USB use in your networks.... |
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- I have clients who want to be able to generate a 'snapshot' of their Domino based CRM system on any given date. This requires very very large databases and i'll migrate that data to db2 as soon as po... |
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- Please move the majority of the posts on the Biology Section here. The three of us promise not to laugh, make fun, or refute what is posted in this topic. Just keep the other topics to the science (including rational hypotheses regarding life and fossils), so we can cotinue to question the observations and science of the actual NASA mission without having to wade through the...well, crap, crud, bs, do-do, (insert witty comment here), etc. Thank you. |
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Witty worm (Jun 15 2004 02:55 GMT) - Here is another analysis of the Witty Worm, this one CIADA's.... |
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- [BBC News | World | UK Edition] - England make six changes for Saturday's second Test against New Zealand. |
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- [BBC News | World | UK Edition] - Foreign ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Conference are to consider a draft resolution on Iraq. |
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- [BBC News | World | UK Edition] - The Afghan president urges Nato to keep its promise to expand peacekeeping before elections in September. |
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- When people rebel against the mundane: Seen the BugMeNot bookmarklet yet?. "Lotsa people know about BugMeNot, the centralized database of usernames and passwords for Web sites that require free registration (such as, alas, many news sites). But have you seen the bookmarklet? On the BugMeNot home page, click on the link that says "bookmarklet" and drag it to your bookmarks/favorites. |
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- You can't help wonder sometimes, especially when you're living by yourself in a foreign city, how long it would take the world to find out, in the event that you die in the middle of your sleep. Would your friends... |
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- MPs condemn the spiralling cost of moving the Government Communications Headquarters listening post. |
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- Speed cameras are saving 100 lives every year, according to a government study published on Tuesday. |
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- John Terry is set to replace Ledley King for England on Thursday against Switzerland. |
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- England make six changes for Saturday's second Test against New Zealand. |
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- Local authorities in Scotland may be given powers to ban or re-route religious marches in a bid to combat sectarianism, it has emerged. |
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- Hundreds of vehicles are set to take to Edinburgh's streets to protest at the high cost of fuel. |
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Travis! (Jun 15 2004 02:54 GMT) - via BLORT, so you can just imagine. "Didn't know I could do that, did you?" |
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