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Download of the Day: Better GReader
via geeksugar -- Geek is chic. by geeksugar on February 13, 2008
As a geek, it's kind of embarrassing to admit that I was ever resistant to using an RSS reader, based on the fact that I liked the way many of my blogs look in their original forms. So many sites put a lot of thought into their design, but I slowly came around to putting some of the blogs I read into Google Reader. Of course, I slowly became dependent on it and finally added all my blogs I...
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Library of Congress Classification Game to Tests Your Wits
via geeksugar -- Geek is chic. by geeksugar on February 13, 2008
No really, I'm not kidding. If you have a few minutes to spare check out the Library of Congress Classification Game, which offers a timed test of your knowledge of the Library of Congress classification system (yes, it's different from the Dewey Decimal System you learned in grammar school). Sure, it sounds less than extraordinary, but it's actually a ton of fun. You pick up the...
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America's Most Internet-Friendly Cities
via geeksugar -- Geek is chic. by geeksugar on February 15, 2008
Forbes has done it again with its most wired cities in the US list. Atlanta tops the list with tech-savvy Seattle coming in second, and Raleigh, North Carolina, coming in third. Wondering how the results were tallied? Forbes looked at the the percentage of Internet users with high-speed access, the range of service providers within a city, and the availability of public wireless hot spots. So...
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LibraryThings
via booktwo.org by James Bridle on February 15, 2008
I got my Cuecat a couple of weeks ago and spent a happy couple of hours scanning in this whole bookshelf, which consists of approximately 90% of my library. The above is a detail from the resulting author cloud.I like the cuecat as a nice little interface tool, necessary now like a CD reader was when you fed all your old CDs into iTunes, then promptly put them all away in a box. In this case of...
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PageOnce to Put All Your Online Accounts in One Place
via TechCrunch by Mark Hendrickson on February 14, 2008
Personal content aggregators are nothing new. We recently covered the latest of many services that consolidate your social networking activity into one place. But PageOnce, a company that was on this year’s Israel Web Tour, wants to become the one stop shop for all your web-accessible accounts.The site is still in private beta and working to expand the number of account types that it supports...
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Send a Valentine in Dog!
via PetSugar -- Girl's Best Friend. by PetSugar on February 14, 2008
Defining wags and decoding barks has never been more fun than with this site, TalkingPets! All you need to do is type in a word, and the doggie will act out the corresponding emotion. In addition to some fun quizzes, they've added a special feature for this special day – help your animal-loving friends translate for their pups and share a Valentine's day ecard with them both! Source
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Oregon faculty senate recommends OA
via Open Access News by Peter Suber on February 14, 2008
The University of Oregon Faculty Senate adopted a resolution in support of OA, February 13, 2008. (Thanks to J.Q. Johnson.)...[T]he University of Oregon University Senate: Encourages all faculty who publish scholarly works to study the issues of copyright ownership and liability, for example as laid out by the Association for Research Libraries SPARC initiative Recommends that if faculty sign a...
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Suddenly, Open Access is all the rage.
via Scholarly Communications @ Duke by Kevin Smith on February 14, 2008
In December the National Institute of Health made public access to research articles that grow out of NIH funded research mandatory; research are now required to place their final version of articles accepted for publication after April 7 into the PubMed Central database at NIH within one year of publication.This was a victory for many library and higher ed. advocates of public access, but there...
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Samurai Dog Armor
via Neatorama by gail on February 13, 2008
... and presumably eccentric samurai or daimyo (feudal lord) in the mid to late Edo period (mid-18th to mid-19th century).Spencer Burns at Yachigusa Ryu wonders why this innovation didn’t occur during the fifth Tokugawa shogunate, when Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (1646-1709) "prohibited the harming of dogs and ordered the establishment of dog kennels, [thus earning] the nickname of ‘dog shogun.’"
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