Why, and How, Not to Use HTML in E-Mail. See these excellent instructions to stop using HTML in your e-mail software. You'll be safer from viruses and worms, and you'll have more privacy in your online world. [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]

The Fourth Amendment (What's Left of It) on Trial. PapersPlease.org: Meet Dudley Hiibel. He's a 59 year old cowboy who owns a small ranch outside of Winnemucca, Nevada. He lives a simple life, but he's his own man. You probably never would have heard of Dudley Hiibel if it weren't for his belief in the […]

Using OAI repositories for complex digital objects. Jeroen Bekaert, Lyudmila Balakireva, Patrick Hochstenbach, and Herbert Van de Sompel, Using MPEG-21 DIP and NISO OpenURL for the Dynamic Dissemination of Complex Digital Objects in the Los Alamos National Laboratory Digital Library, D-Lib Magazine, February 2004. Abstract: “This paper focuses on the use of NISO OpenURL and […]

and i like it.

as for orkut and social software being different or novel somehow, i don't think it is. to me, one problem with the internet is it is huge and unwieldy. social networking sites like orkut make communities smaller and more humanly interprettable, thus more useful… orkut is basically like usenet was in the early 90's.

Exemplary self-archiving policy at QUT. Only this week did I learn about the exemplary self-archiving policy at Queensland University of Technology. It was adopted last September, but took effect on January 1, 2004. Material which represents the total publicly available research and scholarly output of the University is to be located in the University's digital […]

Well designed weblogs. Still a lot to learn, Well designed weblogs (via b-o-k)…. [Fragments] —– missed the list again… i guess purposefully ugly isn't in.

Orkut OD: TOS hack, and craziest community yet [bOing bOing] —– yet another ….

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New South Dakota State Motto: Just Shut Up and Have Your Damn Baby!. Dude, i'm never going there. Not that i was planning a vacation to South Dakota anytime soon, but obviously their politicians are a bunch of woman-hating jackasses. The South Dakota House of Representatives voted 54-14 Tuesday to ban almost all… [Eat Your […]