New D-Lib. The January issue of D-Lib Magazine is now online. Here are the OA-related articles. Jonas Holmstršm, The Cost per Article Reading of Open Access Articles Usha Mujoo-Munshi, INSA e-Journals Project Ian Hesketh, TOIA (Technologies for Online Interoperable Assessment): Free Assessment Tools for and by the Community Simon Tanner, Survey on US Art Museums […]

Ban on Women Singers on TV. AlertNet | Afghan Supreme Court Reinstates Ban A few days after the ban on women singing on TV was lifted in Afghanistan, it has been reimposed after protests by the Supreme Court. The Court says that women singing is against… [Flailing in the Surf]

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You are Kermit the Frog.

Cuffs Linked To Karma. I picked up a pair of 'tech' cufflinks the other week and I quite like them. They're smaller than real-life size, little metal keyboard keys, one says 'Insert', the other 'Delete'. Cute in a suity-geeky kinda way.

The newspapers leave no doubt: from now on whoever wants to go to the United States with a visa will be put on file and will have to leave their fingerprints when they enter the country. Personally, I have no intention of submitting myself to such procedures and that's why I didn't wait to cancel […]

“Robot Scientist” Said to Equal Humans at Some Tasks. A team of British scientists have created a “robot” that can formulate hypotheses, design experiments, and interpret results on par with the best of their human counterparts. [Gyre.org] —— this sort of brings new light to the questions surronding the occupation of 'scientist'

83.7 % ….. … of the total gross national debt of the USA was created during two periods of  Republican Presidency: 1981 – 1992            Ronald Reagan and George Bush I 2001 – present         George Bush II No doubt much of it was in service of Gulf War I, and now Gulf War II. —— There […]

CBS – Content Banishment Syndicate. Advertising Age writes: Anti-Bush Ad Contest Submits Super Bowl Commercial. A spokesman for CBS said the Viacom-owned network has received the request from MoveOn to run the ad in the Super Bowl, but added that the ad has to go through standards and practices before CBS will say if it […]

Spend it like Bush. National Debt. More on the U.S. national debt, from Al Martin Raw, the article “Scoreboard 2003”. Seems to be in the member area, but somebody sent me an e-mail copy. The total national debt of the United States on a fully realized basis, inclusive of federal, state, county and local debt […]