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WOLD (Jan 13 2005 23:59 GMT) - Last.FM looks like one more way to spend too much time. |
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DownUp2u 1.1 (Jan 13 2005 23:59 GMT) - DownUp2U is a interent download tool. it's desgined to download not only files, but aslo complete website. It can split one file into multi-parts, and download them independently. it supports multithread resume broken download, support http/https/ftp/mms/rtsp protocol. supports HTTP/FTP/SOCKS proxy. |
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Examples of sites using right-hand menus? (Jan 13 2005 23:59 GMT) - Actually, there's more than left or right, top and left, top/left/bottom... I know the owner of this one, ha ha. She sticks stuff on the right, in the body (imbedded links that take the visitor and search engine smack dab into the site or somewhere else "important"), and top navigation. Like Stock, I know mine isn't likely what you had in mind. We're just show offs, : |
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Yahoo! Search and MSN Search Close the Gap with Google, Says Keynote (Jan 13 2005 23:59 GMT) - A Press Release from Keynote says The Yahoo! and MSN search engines are closing the gap with Google by improving the search experience for consumers and that will lead to increased usage for those sites, according to a new study. According to the study, Google maintains its clear leadership position in the search industry. However, Yahoo! and MSN have made significant gains against Google since the last Keynote search engine study, published in May 2004. |
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Explaining the use of RSS or Atom Feeds in Research (Jan 13 2005 23:59 GMT) - Carol Terry writes "Resource Shelf, Jan. 12, reports on a "must use" tool: Finding News Faster.This is a fabulous presentation, from Virtual Chase, on using "XML-Based Feeds in Research"."It starts with the basics--what they are, how to display them, and how to find them. |
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Fark photoshop: Unlikely Literacy Campaigns (Jan 13 2005 23:59 GMT) - crow writes "One of the current photoshops on FARK has the theme of "Unlikely Literacy Campaigns". Some of the entries are rather entertaining (in the usual twisted ways)." Probably not safe for reading on the reference desk, if for no other reason that it may leave you laughing. Voting Results. |
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Libraries study begins with forum (Jan 13 2005 23:59 GMT) - twistedlibrarian writes "Be ambitious but realistic in choosing how to improve city libraries, a consultant told more than 50 people last night, beginning a yearlong study of the system. "Again, we're talking five years from now. A lot of things can happen in five years, so it's good to have those things up there now," said consultant Alan Brickman of Rockport. The Republican " |
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Ga. Evolution Stickers Ordered Removed (Jan 13 2005 23:59 GMT) - A federal judge Thursday ordered a suburban Atlanta school system to remove stickers in its high school biology textbooks that call evolution "a theory, not a fact," saying the disclaimers were an unconstitutional endorsement of religion So says The Associated Press. |
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Two people arrested for telling lawyer joke (Jan 13 2005 23:59 GMT) - zanne sends " this from MSNBC.com . Two people were arrested outside a Long Island (NY) courthouse for -- get this -- telling lawyer jokes. Not totally on topic for us librarians, but way too funny, and sad, to pass up. Plus, I dunno about your library, but if people were telling librarian jokes outside our library, we'd be the first ones to join in! |
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Religion in the media: books, magazines and Web sites (Jan 13 2005 23:58 GMT) - Via Dallas Morning News, which notes that Soujourner's of all things calls Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, " a television show worth watching." I didn't think anybody who wrote for or subscribed to Sojourner's actually owned a tv. (A Catholic Worker I used to know only brought his rickety old one down from the closet's top shelf for one reason, and one reason only; his 3-year-old daughter called the device "The Hockey". |
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IDB (Jan 13 2005 23:58 GMT) - As you all know, or most of you know, the beloved IDB beloved by many Battlers is down. The reason for this is because IDB is kindly hosted on Creature World's servers, thanks to JohnM, and someone has hacked, or made a force attempt the server. |
Mark Bernstein
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InAudible (Jan 13 2005 23:57 GMT) - Audible's library server seems to be down. Or stalled. Or the last iTunes update broke it. Or something else is wrong. All I know is that I can't get the book I paid for. |
Mark Bernstein
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Course Site (Jan 13 2005 23:57 GMT) - Marisa Antonaya's new Economic Geography course site is made with Tinderbox and has a bunch of interesting features that Tinderbox makes easy. suggested readings and films (with quicjk links to Allconsuming) an instructor's weblog modular, expandable course outline |
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All My Movies 3.2 (Jan 13 2005 23:57 GMT) - All My Movies is a movie database manager. The main features are demonstrative and handy vision of all your movie collection; importing screenshots directly from your movie DVDs or AVI files to the database which can help you remember movie using your visual memory and evaluate quality of the movie's picture; fast movie search by any of the database fields; export your movie collection to HTML, plain text or Microsoft Excel format; |
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