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- ?the truth of the matter is that web services are coming and their impact has very little to do with what protocols or architectural decisions you make, but the amount of people you manage to catalyze. - Stefano Mazzocchi |
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- ESPN's Chris Fowler shot some b-roll footage for ESPN.com prior to the ESPN College GameDay in Austin. Among the images from the shoot is this gem: Fowler also comes clean on how Corso prepares for his "headgear picks" and ABC's plan to promote the USC/Texas game. HT: |
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- My pick for snort-milk-out-the-nose-laughi site of the day has to be Banterist.com, "a weblog of original humor by Brian Sack." Here's a brief sample from Helpful Plastic Surgery Tips: Plastic surgery works best when not a manifestation of inner turmoil... |
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- 1) Start training your puppy early on. While old dogs can be taught new tricks, what's learned earliest, is often learned quickest and easiest. Moreover, the older the dog, the more bad habits will likely need to be "un-learned". When it comes to raising and training a dog, an ounce of problem prevention is certainly worth a pound of cure! 2) Train your dog gently and humanely, and whenever |
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- Dogs are pack animals. I was recently reminded of this when I walked two of the dogs this morning. I was walking Sasha (Australian Shepherd/Chow Chow mix) and Bodhi (Tibetan Mastiff). As we walked past a small shrub, Sasha noticed the small lizard. She immediately ran at it in an an attempt to catch it. |
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- Dog shows, obedience trials set for weekend Globe-Gazette - obedience trials Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 15-16, at the North Iowa Fairgrounds.The show runs from 8:30 a.m. |
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- Starfish is a program for creating creating colorful, random, abstract patterns for use as desktop wallpaper. Starfish may be set to create new desktop wallpaper automatically at intervals you select, or it may be run interactively to create new pat (link) by tsangal Tags: abstract generator random wallpaper |
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- ONN. Ohio News Now: Colleges Requiring Health Insurance … number of public universities are requiring that students have health insurance before they are admitted … decision up to students. |
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- !-- 1129839776 Thu, Oct 20, 2005 042256 PM EDT --div id="stories"h1uallergy/u/h1div class="headline"a href="http//www. npr. org/templates/story/story. php?storyId=4967188amp; |
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- Hej Dette synes jeg er lidt sært. Vi har vores egen server, hvor vi har sat Apache2 op. Efter vi flyttede nogle websites, blev billederne pludselig ikke vist. Det viser sig, at når billederne ligger i en mappe som hedder 'images' vil de ikke vise sig. Sært nok virkede det den første dag, anden dag crackede det hele, og vi måtte omdøbe det på de mest nødvendige websites. |
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- New Child Support Health Insurance Notices … New Child Support Health Insuran. New Child Support Health Insurance Notices … new form to notify employers to withhold health insurance premiums. Employers will receive this form for … |
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- The United Nations has almost doubled its appeal target for victims of the South Asia earthquake to £310 million. |
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- Amazon.com Cell Phones & Service: Mobile phones from Motorola Online shopping for cell phones, wireless service plans & accessories; |
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- Football Blogs BRITBLOG .COM. THE BRITISH BLOGGERS DIRECTORY. Make money! Make money from your blog! |
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- Kaiser Permanente: Thrive - Health Insurance Plans, Healthcare Information, Health Advice Thrive! Visit Kaiser Permanente online for health care information, advice, and quality insurance coverage. We help promote wellness by combining preventive care, health education, and appropriate treatment. Drugs. |
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- PHP - ??? Refinance sitemap.php - Remarks by Governor Mark W. Olson At the Annual Economic Outlook Remarks by Governor Mark W. Olson At the Annual Economic Outlook University Federal Credit Union: |
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- "Since I was a kid, I've been able to sleep through anything -- storms, sirens, you name it. Last night, I didn't sleep. I guess I get a little goofy when I'm nervous. You see, today isn't just any other day. It's my first day. |
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- I learn via e-mail from Sawyer Broadley that the Department of State has given clearance for a limited roll-out of second generation passports. The new documents will have embedded radio frequency identification chips (RFID) which, when pinged, will transmit a string of unique characters to a receiver that could in turn confirm authenticity by checking against a central database. There will be the usual brayings of 'fascism' as the doubly secure document comes into its own--mostly from individuals in a habit of oversensing forthcoming Police Statia ever since the G-men nabbed their fluorescence-fed crop. It is difficult, though, to cull 1984 out of a computer-readable national identification document. The goal and net effect in RFID passports is not and cannot be to track individuals. |
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- GregS* writes "At TechCentralStation, John S. Gardner, former General Counsel of the U.S. Agency for International Development from 2001 to 2005, offers 10 goals for the United Nations he feels are reachable by their 70th anniversary on 2015. #3: |
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- Jay writes "Information today announces scirus, elsevier's free science and technology related serach engine, to index the Caltech Collection of Open Digital Archives (CODA). This news item can be accessed at: Scirus to Index Caltech Digital Archives " |
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- News writes "NewsForge Notes The Copyright Office of the US Library of Congress has formally announced an open comment period to solicit evidence from "interested parties" regarding whether the prohibition on circumvention clause of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has an adverse effect on legal, non-infringing use of copyrighted works. Anyone may submit comments via forms on the Copyright Office Web site between November 2 and December 1. All comments will be made public." |
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- dcstone writes "The Detroit Free Press reports that the failure of a Michigan law designed to protect children from adult email has disappointed Michigan parents who expected the state to protect their child from inappropriate email. "What was the whole point in signing up if it's not doing any good? Is this just the legislature and the governor trying to look good and tough, but in the end, just kicking up dust?" said Talia Goetting, a Ferndale mother of an 8-year-old, who now scans her daughter's e-mails before allowing her to read them. "I'm doing what I hoped was going to be done by the registry. |
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- Today's "Someone Stole All Our DVDs" Story brought to you by The Gwinnett County Public Library system down in Georgia. They've decided to stop offering DVDs, saying the number of discs stolen could fill two video stores. With nearly 17,000 DVDs stolen, the library system ended the program last month and began selling the remaining DVDs. "It's a shame that the small percentage of the population takes the enjoyment, the freedom and the availability of these items from everyone else," said Beth McCloy, a Buford resident who used the DVDs as part of a home school curriculum for her three children. |
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- slashgirl writes "From the article: "Hundreds of Acadian artifacts from a Louisiana museum are drying out in the care of archivists in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita. Among the artifacts rescued from flooding was the royal proclamation in which the Queen acknowledged for the first time the wrongs done to the Acadian people during the deportation of 1755." Rest of the story HERE." |
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- Los Angeles Daily News Reports Hundreds lined up Monday at the Ronald Reagan Library to climb aboard the blue-and-white Boeing 707 that traveled more than a million miles as it served as Air Force One for seven U.S. presidents. Close to 1,600 people visited the hilltop library for their first look at the museum's newest addition: the Air Force One Pavilion, featuring the gleaming jet. |
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- Max writes about an article in Sunday's New York Times Technology section indicating that, "The federal government, vastly extending the reach of an 11-year-old law, is requiring hundreds of universities, online communications companies and cities to overhaul their Internet computer networks to make it easier for law enforcement authorities to monitor e-mail and other online communications." |
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- An Anonymous Patron writes "Re IL2005: I could not attend, but the coverage has been terrific and has filled many of the blanks. Coverage of note includes: Librarian In Black continues posting some fascinating thoughts and predictions emerging from conference seminars at Internet Librarian 2005. Also posting interesting discussion on IL2005 are Liz Lawley (future of librarianship); |
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- One From The Salt Lake Tribune on Randy Silverman, a conservator and preservation librarian at the University of Utah's Marriott Library, who takes the concept of preparedness seriously. He was lecturing on emergency preparedness in Portland, Ore., on a recent Saturday when he got a phone call that seemed like a bad joke: His office back in Salt Lake City had been flooded. |
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- Wired Is Covering so writers who are pro-Google. Google's plan to scan library book collections and make them searchable may be drawing ire from publishers and authors' advocates, but some obscure and first-time writers are lining up on the search engine's side of the dispute -- arguing that the benefits of inclusion in the online database outweigh the drawbacks. "A cover does sell a book to a certain extent, but once you're intrigued by a cover you want to dig deeper," said Meghann Marco, whose first book, Field Guide to the Apocalypse, was published in May. |
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- For the nomads of north-east Kenya, a library in a building would not be suitable...hence this unusual but completely functional Camel Library. Three caravans serve 3,500 registered users, and the schools are seeing an improvement in student work. Very cool pictures and story from the BBC Just wish we can a camel icon... Update by Dan G. |
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- Some bad news from Sunderland Echo in the UK. There were 110,000 less people using Sunderland's 21 branch and two mobile libraries last year, with the biggest falls at the recently refurbished Houghton library, where numbers were down by more than a third, and at Monkwearmouth where they fell by a quarter. |
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- A Tale of a brave group of library patrons in suburban Buffalo, NY.A group of Town of Tonawanda residents are working against time to save their neighborhood library, and they say the Town Board is doing little to help stop the clock. The group, which calls itself Friends of the Brighton Library, hope to raise private funds to keep the Fries Road branch operating until a new "hub" library is built in the next few years. To do so, they?re asking the Town Board to "mothball" the library, locking down the building and its collection until March so the group can come up with the money and an operating plan. |
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- The Boston Herald Reports A former research librarian at Bain Co. pleaded guilty and was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison for embezzling more than $800,000 from the giant Boston consulting company. |
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- Here's News that Microsoft's MSN unit is working on its own service for searching the contents of books online -- trailing rival Google once again, but hoping this time to avoid a major challenge encountered by the Internet search leader. Microsoft says its MSN Book Search project will differ from Google's by scanning copyrighted books only after working out deals in advance with the copyright holders. |
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