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Open Access News
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Nonsubscription costs for libraries in storing ejournals (Jun 17 2004 23:12 GMT) - Roger Schonfeld, Donald King, Ann Okerson, and Eileen Gifford Fenton, The Nonsubscription Side of Periodicals: Changes in Library Operations and Costs between Print and Electronic Formats, CLIR, June 2004. Excerpt: "In the past 10 years, projections about the cost impact of a shift to the electronic format have led to hard-nosed considerations of business models and prices. With the advent of journal package deals, consortial negotiations, and alternative proposals such as open access, libraries' subscription and license costs, as well as collection sizes and profiles, are changing. |
Diets and Weight Loss Plans
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What is Too Fat? (Jun 17 2004 23:10 GMT) - by Teresa King In this day and age, it seems that more and more women and young teens are starving themselves to be in the current "skinny mode". Why is this happening? In this overly commercially orientated world, with skinny models all over the world, and people trying to emulate that "look". I am quite sure it started with Twiggy, in the 1960's. I think Twiggy was smart. |
ПОЛИТ.РУ: НОВОСТИ
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Мадонна рекомендует посмотреть "9/11 по Фаренгейту" (Jun 17 2004 23:10 GMT) - Мадонна порекомендовала своим поклонникам посмотреть документальный фильм режиссера Майкла Мура "9/11 по Фаренгейту", в котором критикуются действия президента Джорджа Буша в ответ на теракты 11 сентября. Об этом сообщает РИА "Новости". "Я никогда в жизни так не рыдала в кино. Эта картина дала мне большую пищу для размышлений. Она доказывает, что мы можем что-то изменить", - сказала певица, обращаясь к аудитории в перерыве между песнями во время концерта в нью-йоркском "Мэдисон-сквер гарден". |
Indymedia Italia
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[Aversa]Il Tar boccia il sito di Cappuccini (Jun 17 2004 23:09 GMT) - fonte il mattino Aversa.Sorpresa: il sito di trasferenza dei rifiuti di Cappuccini ГЁ illegittimo e andrГ rimosso. Ad affermarlo, per ben due volte di seguito, la prima sezione del tribunale amministrativo regionale della Campania con due recentissime sentenze. |
Thoughts Made Words
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cartoons lie (Jun 17 2004 23:09 GMT) - I saw something today that has made me question everythingi have ever learned from cartoons. Today i saw a car swerve intoa fire hydrant and knock it over. The hydrant sat sadly on its side, about 10feet from its former location. What happened? Nothing! |
Archipelago
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Joel (Jun 17 2004 23:09 GMT) - Joel: What are your ideas for improving the HTML/CSS/JavaScript infrastructure to make web app development better? [Joel's on a tear. And this piece certainly follows down his path... stand alone apps are dying (no runtime), APIs are shot (killed by the web and breaks), so bring on the browser as the solution... |
Archipelago
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some picures (Jun 17 2004 23:09 GMT) - [I went to the "Geek Dinner" last night, met Scoble although we had little chance to talk, and had a nice time. More later. Driving home last night I took some picures as I drove... not recommended, closed course, professional drivers only etc. etc. |
infinite ideas machine
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Read this book, it's important. (Jun 17 2004 23:09 GMT) - Been reading Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto's 'The Mystery of Capital', in which he tries and, to my mind, succeeds in explaining why capitalism has worked in the West and been pretty much a complete disaster everywhere else. He starts... |
SportsFilter
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Other: "The Man on the Medal" dead at 89 (Jun 17 2004 23:09 GMT) - lil_brown_bat: From the era when people raced alpine, x-c, and jumped all on the same pair of skis, "the greatest skier this country ever produced" will be remembered and missed by many. |
Cannibal Corpse Forums
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self mutilated: CHRIS BARNES FUCKED OVER (Chris Barnes!) (Jun 17 2004 23:08 GMT) - I THINK IT IS WRONG FOR CORPSEGRINDER TO SING CHRIS'S LYRICS IT'S JUST N OT RIGHT, thats like stealing from chris everytime they play a song off the first 4 albums. he should do the same thing rerecord all the first albums with his vocals and some one else playing the music to make money off it also, hell it's his lyrics they are singing, so why can't he play their music. i still like cannibal but i think that was wrong. |
Gadgetopia
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Entry #2,500 (Jun 17 2004 23:08 GMT) - Last September, we celebrated number 1,000. About two months later, we got to 1,500. Apparently we were too busy to celebrate number 2,000, because that one slipped by before we noticed. So, here's 2,500, which is cool for the sole... |
Mijndagboek.be
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kloote mensen sommige (Jun 17 2004 23:07 GMT) - niemand hoef dit te lezen tegen zijn zin stoor je aan die dingen de pot op :p ga eens wat chatboxen af en verbeter daar de foutjes :p of ga les geven in een school :p zo slim ben je nog niet zo te zien :pp |
YudelLine 2.0a
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Wise words from a Conservative rabbi (Jun 17 2004 23:07 GMT) - Gerald L. Zelizer makes an important point in USA Today: Clergy in danger of being left behind: [The Left Behind] books are just one instance of religion bursting big-time into the media on both sides of the faith ledger. But too often, we clergy don't know how to handle this phenomenon. |
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