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“This year, 26 teams of college engineering students gathered from around the country for the April 14 event, sponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The goal? Time trials and a Grand Prix-style race with a take-home prize of $500.
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‘Official’ Adobe Knowhow page.
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“Dr. Williams says that the Bible was first heard in a community, not read in isolation. It should therefore be read (he says) “not as information, not as just instruction, but as a summons to assemble together as a certain sort of community, one that und
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“It’s a huge challenge, and not just for us. As those of you who sample the scientific blogosphere will know, the publication of this brief commentary in Science, reprised here in the Washingon Post, was a bombshell that triggered a huge debate about ho
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“HTML Tidy is a tool for checking and cleaning up HTML source files. It is especially useful for finding and correcting errors in deeply nested HTML, or for making grotesque code legible once more. This online version enables you use it without installing
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“The History of Interlibrary Loan
Introductions
Basics: What Libraries Do
Basics: Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
Premise: What took you so long?
Overview
History: pre-20th C. Europe
History: Turn of the 20th Century
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Archive for April, 2007
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“You can play as either the Israeli Prime Minister or the President of the Palestinian Authority. The goal ? for both sides ? is to establish a successful two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and thereby win the Nobel Peace Prize. In
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“Many of the difficulties laryngectomee patients experience involves the oral stage of the swallow. Diagnosis of oral stage deficits generally involves taking a thorough patient history, observing the patient eat/drink a variety of consistencies and may a
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“The current influence of digital technologies and communications on the manufacture, reading and meaning of books seems to be only a routine continuation of the revolutions of the 19th century. In the 19th century the Gutenberg revolution of interchangea
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Early printed books > English-speaking countries > 17th century > Bibliography > Union lists
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“carburetion, crank shaft, flywheel, showing method, magneto, rear axle, petcock, hand lever, vibrator, connecting rod, gearset, carbon deposits, camshaft, ford cars, piston, foreground list, carelessly manipulated, sea island, mr. victor, cotter keu”
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April 18, 2007-
“In the eighteenth century, when novels were invented and became wildly popular, people became acutely sympathetic to the plight of others. Hunt believes that the first trend caused the second: “Novels made the point that all people are fundamentally simi
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“The state of XHTML on the Web today is more broken than the state of HTML, and most people don’t realize because the major browsers aren’t even treating those pages like real XHTML.”
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“Make a gift box from paper.”
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April 17, 2007-
“We all want our children to see and understand what we do for a living, to understand that turning 16, or 21, or 42 doesn’t mean you need, or need aspire to a car (if it will even be an option in 2020, 2025, or 2045), and to build a business they can
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“TwentySixInch custom bicycles, as the name implies, fabricates completely tailored, hand-built “Beach Cruiser” inspired bicycles. All are made to order with your choice of desired menu options including aluminum pedals, cranks, hydraulic disk brakes,
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“A majority of the JavaScript that I have come across is decidedly non-object oriented and tends to be a library of functions that are attached to various event handlers. This style works well with AJAX, but loses the advantages of cohesive object-oriente
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You connect the pump to a faucet with a garden hose. Inside the unit there’s a nozzle pointed at the output hose. It sucks water from below, spitting out that water together with the propelling water via the output hose. In truth, I didn’t believe it woul
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“In effect he bought a very cheap call option on the U.S. housing market. While he waited to see if his call option made him richer, he lived in a much nicer house than he could otherwise afford and probably wondered why rich people had become so reckless
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“These cranes are all the work of our very own Liz Shuman who has set herself the ambitious (some might say crazy) goal of sending out one thousand paper cranes across the world. All she asks in return is that recipients take a photograph of their crane w
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“eighth largest and most capital intensive industry in the United States. The industry employs nearly 1.5 million Americans in over 800 pulp and paper mills. Thirty-four of these mills operate in Maine and employ nearly 14,000 people.”
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” * Paperloop.com Industry News, calendar, company profiles and financial data and Internet directory. Gold access is required to view some information. Can register for 60 days free Gold access.
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“Often, however, lines are grouped, formally or informally, into stanzas, verse paragraphs, etc. The element defined in the core tag set (in section 6.11.1 Core Tags for Verse) may be used for all such groupings. It may thus serve for informal groupi
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“Graphical representations are widely used for displaying relations among informational units because they help readers to visualize those relations and hence to understand them better. Two general types of graphical representations may be distinguished.”
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If there is no template matching an element, we
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2 If there are no elements to process by Rule 1, any text
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“This is a set of XSLT specifications to transform TEI XML documents to HTML, to LaTeX, and to XSL Formatting Objects. It can be downloaded from the Releases area of http://tei.sf.net. It concentrates on TEI Lite, but adding support for other modules is f
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“There are reasons to believe that it would be very interesting to use Semantic Web tools and languages like RDF and OWL for tasks traditionally performed with XML mark-up. Among these, is textual encoding of literary documents and or manuscripts. (see th
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via Dr. Paul Donohue newspaper column.
“for the treatment of xerostomia
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via Dr. Paul Donohue newspaper column
“This medication is used to treat the symptom of dry mouth in patients with Sjogren’s Syndrome. Cevimeline increases the activity of glands in the mouth and skin (e.g., salivary and sweat glands).” -
Discussion Board: Head and Neck Cancer
” Amy, I am a surviver of tonsil cancer. You may email me for more information or you can visit a very useful website where you can get a lot of information about this type of caner:www.oralcancerfoudation.org.
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“Oral cancer is the largest group of those cancers which fall into the head and neck cancer category. Common names for it include such things as mouth cancer, tongue cancer, and throat cancer. Approximately 34,000 people in the US will be newly diagnosed
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April 16, 2007-
“Mounted just behind the driver on most trucks are the engines, which are typically supercharged, run on methanol, and have displacement up to 575 cubic inches. Axles are typically out of either heavy-duty military trucks or road vehicles like school buse
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“Includes over 3 1/2 hours of footage and 3-D computer models to show you all the inner workings of the engine. The interactive format of DVD video allows the viewer to navigate through the rebuild at their own pace.
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“We build and sell miniature steam engines and also have one miniature gas engine. Our model steam engines are sold as casting sets, machined sets, and ready to run models. There are several steam engine models to choose from, some models scaled down from
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“The HyperCard torch is carried by iHug, which has 300 or 400 active members. Two or three times a year iHug collects several thousand dollars in donations to set up booths at Macworld Expo and promote HyperCard on Apple’s behalf.”
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“The Language Translation Metaphor I find that if you can send your data from an XForms application directly to a native XML database in XML format that there is no need for middle-tier objects or shredding into relational databases. No translation is inv
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The Blog | Esther Dyson: Release 0.9: Simonyi launch tour - The launch itself! | The Huffington Post“So now we get to the magic moment. Through some wizardry of Space Adventures, a very small group of us got to a viewing site that seemed no more than 250 meters from the rocket itself, on top of a grassy nob. Just across from us stood the rocket, frozen
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Letters of E. B. White, Revised Edition Martha White, editor
… end with five prepositions: “he brings the wrong book. The boy says,’ What did you bring that book that I don’t want to be read to out of up for?’”
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“Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.
Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our
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“The dilemma that the AACSLA has to face now is should they revoke the Xbox 360 HD-DVD? This is a hardware device. If they revoke these devices, those boxes are dead. The owners of these devices will have a reasonable expectation to some sort of legal rem
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April 15, 2007-
It was all a curious mixture of the formal and the homespun. Various unknown (to me) people emerged from the hotel, carrying champagne in plastic shopping bags, briefcases stuffed with important documents (or perhaps with sausage). They all pretended to i
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“This book is intended for anyone who wants to become a better Lisp programmer. It assumes some familiarity with Lisp, but not necessarily extensive programming experience.”
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“Instead, one could produce a clone of an ‘antique’ micro from the early eighties: the ZX81. This was used an Uncommited Logic Array (ULA) to replace the many discrete TTL chips of its predecessor (the ZX80) and add some extra features. The ULA was a sili
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Doesn’t link to http://jsmsxdemo.googlepages.com/jsmsx.html so far as I can tell.
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The original idea of this project was to build the well known 6502 processor using only normal available TTL IC’s. Unfortunately this turned out to be quite impossible seen from a practical view of point. An explanation will follow.
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“This web page provides information and airs ideas about the concept of free fonts. Its annotated appearance reflects my conversations with type designers about the danger and necessity of free fonts.
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“1) People who get it are getting elected. City Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker lives in the outer reaches of the city but bicycles 42 km (26 miles) each way to work at Toronto City Hall, all year round, from a part of town where there are no bike lanes.
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“Yesterday I interviewed Hugh McGuire about LibriVox for next week’s ITConversations podcast. In the course of our conversation I was reminded that LibriVox catalog pages — like this one for White Fang — include MP3s and Oggs for individual chapters
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“These are mostly older students who have returned to school with a combination of work experience and an appreciation for the contemporary digital lifestyle. Now they’re learning how to apply those perspectives to the new interdisciplinary science of s
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“# Vannevar Bush’s The Memex (c. 1935, published 1945)
# Douglas Englebart’s Augment
# Theodor H. Nelson Xanadu (proposed 1965)
# HES (Hypertext Editing System), (Andries van Dam, 1967)
# FRESS (Andries van Dam)
# IRIS Intermedia (1987-92)
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“Gates spent a lot of time reading Allard’s 147-page “Book of Xenon,” the Snow Crash-infused plan for the Xbox platform’s next 20 years. Allard is a Stephenson buff. With Xbox 360, Allard is bringing the Metaverse to the masses.”
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“These books produce in their readers the “state of soul” that Rorty calls “knowingness,” which he glosses as a “preference for knowledge over hope” (37)”[6]; this preference for knowledge “contribute[s] to a more fundamental failure to appreciate the val
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April 14, 2007-
This has the same emotional effect on me that the original has.
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“Every text, and many variant editions of texts in the STC, has been assigned a unique number known as the STC or Wing number, depending on the date of the text. Microfilmed documents have, additionally, been given a microfilm reel number. To locate the f
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Try our XForms capable-browser engine for java enabled devices such as cell phones with MIDP 2.0, embedded devices running Java Personal Basis Profile. Or get your hands on our Personal Edition suitable for PDA’s or the Desktop version for use with Java 1
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“Shipley and Schwalbe enumerate six essential e-mail types (the Ask, the Answer, Grovelling, etc.), eight deadly sins (too casual, too vague, too illegal, etc.), and a four-step checklist (S.E.N.D.) that reflects the authors’ broad-ranging e-mail conser
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Susan finds this to be a great list of recently published children’s and young adult books. Note that this is last year’s list. I’ll post the new list for books published in 2006 as soon as I get a link to it.
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“Rather than thinking that truth is a relationship between the propositions we believe and the way the world is, such that the propositions represent the world, in the networked world the truth is argued for and connected via links. For all but the most m
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“Chi Mak, an engineer accused of passing sensitive military information to
the Chinese government for more than 20 years.Mak, a naturalized U.S. citizen who worked for Anaheim-based defense
contractor Power Paragon, has pleaded not guilty. He is cha -
“The idea of a constellation of communicating, state-driven services isn’t necessarily revolutionary, but their conception and execution of that idea is. The framework was conceived not just as a library, but as a full-blown application model. It’s an
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April 13, 2007-
“PS. Semantic MediaWiki’s Denny Vrandecic has also been kicking freebase’s tyres - and suggests their business plan (!). Material’s coming out thick and fast on the freebase blog - First Patterns: Data Modeling Idioms on ‘Compound Value Types’ (er, which
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via http://dannyayers.com/2007/03/15/white-lines
“Longwell mixes the flexibility of the RDF data model with the effectiveness of the faceted browsing UI paradigm and enables you to visualize and browse any arbitrarely complex RDF dataset, allowing you to -
via http://dannyayers.com/2007/03/15/white-lines
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“(…) results of a statistical comparison between Amazon and LibraryThing tags, and exploring why tagging has turned out relatively poorly for Amazon. I end by making concrete recommendations for ecommerce sites interested in making tagging work.”
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“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
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“Generates various bibliography formats from input list of ISBN numbers”
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You Can Still Go To Hell…and Other Truths About Being a Helping Professional
by David Moreau – copyright 2007
ISBN 0-9785860-8-5
$ 8 including postage
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It doesn’t seem to be working.
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“CrossRef is the official DOI registration agency for scholarly and professional publications. It operates a cross-publisher citation linking system that allows a researcher to click on a reference citation on one publisher’s platform and link directly
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“Read and release your books into the wild! Tag your used books with a unique tracking number, then follow their travels through the world at BookCrossing, the world’s biggest book club.”
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“In January of 1927 (1926 on the title pages), A Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640 was published. Ironically, the running title of the catalogue was too long and comple
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via http://www.librarything.com/work/106514
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“When we first began talking about creating the HyperCard stack in 1990, the frontiers of cyberspace were tiny outposts and the populace was a crowd of hackers, research scientists, libertarians, academics, military types, and various flavors of bohemians
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Sort of what I was expecting from the Darwin CD: pictures of all the different species the text is talking about.
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April 12, 2007-
“WormBook is a comprehensive, open-access collection of original, peer-reviewed chapters covering topics related to the biology of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans). WormBook also includes WormMethods, an up-to-date collection of methods and protocols”
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“Digital library site built on top of eXist-db (and using XQuery).”
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“Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs, hit highlighting, faceted search, caching, replication, and a web administration interface. It runs in a Java servlet container such as
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“Meaning is fundamentally social and cannot be reduced to the meaning-giving activity of individual subjects. The rationalistic view of cognition is individual-centered. We look at language by studying the characteristics of an individual language learner
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“We started with sharing photos, words, and templates because we believed the emotion and creativity involved in the act of telling stories was a great first beachhead in becoming the print engine for the web. And nine months, 150 thousand tabblos, and 5
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introducing the new visual printer
“Gary, There is no post-digital future.”
Well, work with me on this. What I am talking about is a printer with a screen. On that screen you would bring up the “print-preview” environment. A menu would provide previ
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Read the whole thing. I won’t give away the punch line.
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“But: (a) Respect is not always the highest value of a conversation. (b) What constitutes disrespectful or injurious speech depends upon the target, the speaker and the context (again, ruling out posts that cross the boundaries of the law and our shared s
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Heard the author on Fresh Air this evening.
“The author convincingly argues that Medicare and universal health care in such countries as France, though not perfect, are far superior to the system most Americans face. Much of this is well-trod territory,
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April 11, 2007-
“George Naylor, Joel Salatin, General Mills, Cascadian Farm, Polyface Farm, Gene Kahn, Petaluma Poultry, Fritz Haber, People’s Park, Peter Singer, San Francisco, Earthbound Farm, South Dakota, Supermarket Pastoral, Wall Street, Greene County, Poky Feeders
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“quick, interesting thoughts on the shelving books by color (see last post). you end up with an organization that’s easy for an insider, impenetrable for an outsider…more inside”
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