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9:49 AM
by Garrett
The Rowland Institute Library Weblog has a new URL. Here is the XML feed. Previous posts will continue to be archived at this site.
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9:23 AM
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The Strongest Links |Cutting the Tether: Great Resources on Wireless (source: beSpacific)
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2:54 PM
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2:37 PM
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United States Patent: 6,643,686 a patent granted to A T &T for a way of sending e-mail that foils anti-spam measures (Source: Lockergnome Bytes) Does it mean we will be at the mercy of ma bell?
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4:32 PM
by Garrett
Popular Science | Best of What's New 2003 100 innovations profiled in the magazine (Source; Slashdot)
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2:23 PM
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Weblogs: simplifying web publishing An article in IEEE Computer discusses weblogs' usefulness for content management, the different applications involved, and future apps such as cell phone blogging...
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3:50 PM
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New Scientist: US crackdown on bioterror is backfiring
New Scientist casts a critical look at a "climate of fear."
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4:40 PM
by Garrett
Turning up the heat on preprint servers
This week's Nature features two news articles on troubles with the arXiv.org (or xxx) preprint server; according to one piece, 22 papers were withdrawn amidst allegations of plagiarism; another story,
Critical comments threaten to open libel floodgate for physics archive, reports on one physicist attacking another's work in a paper posted to the archive, and the implications of such uncensored comments. Paul Ginsparg remarked "We don't want these food fights conducted on a regular basis." An editorial (gleefully?) admonishing preprint server and scientific website administrators about libel law kicks off the issue.
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2:24 PM
by Garrett
Inside Science News Service
AIP has a service with links to science news stories of general interest. One of the latest is a statement by Steven Weinberg to the Texas Board of Education supporting the teaching of evolutionary theory - in fact, he advocates that no alternative theories (such as creation science) be taught alongside it.
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10:47 AM
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Argali White & Yellow - the most complete and reliable phone directories search on the Internet
enables searching of multiple web-based phone and e-mail directories (Source: Search Engine Watch)
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10:23 AM
by Garrett
Wired News: DNA That's Yours for the Taking
an article about the Sanger centre in London, which evidently has a database of more than two billion letters of DNA; geneticists can search the database freely ...
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4:45 PM
by Garrett
On The Net - Unusual Power Web Searching Commands From Greg Notess, who should know ...
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4:16 PM
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Physics' theoretical approach might aid biology An interesting discussion of how one discipline help the other ...