Opinions: ‘Baby bomber’ by Josephine Wall | Prospect Magazine October 2006 issue 127: Google made obsessively tracking progress of my bad joke an easy task. A week after the solicitor’s letter, the controversy had appeared in 35 newspaper articles. Ten days later and my quote had appeared on nearly a thousand websites. An online store […]

Free Wikis for Educators: Adam Frey and the gang at Wikispaces want to give away 100,000 free wikis to educators and I think we should help them meet their goal, don’t you? You can create a public space that is open to anyone, a protected space where anyone can see the work but only members […]

Gabe Wachob: RIP Rob “lilo” Levin: Rob Levin (aka “lilo” or “somegeek”), the head of PDPC and the leader of the Freenode IRC network, passed away today after being hit by a car while riding his bike. The news came to me through a global notice on freenode at 14:18 pacific time today. We’ll miss […]

Crumbs! Web site gives archivists food for thought – Yahoo! News: The British Library may have raised academic eyebrows when it decided that a Web site with this mission statement should be archived among those that may be of social significance, stamping it a modern classic of British popular culture. ——— archiving cultural website, whodathought.

links for 2006-09-16: GNU LilyPond – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Free music transcribing software (tags: music software wikipedia gnu) LilyPond, music notation for everyone (tags: application design audio free freeware gnu language mac macintosh macosx mediawiki mt music open_source opensource osx script software… — This is pretty cool

Is God an Accident?: As predicted, when asked about biological properties, the children appreciated the effects of death: no need for bathroom breaks; the ears don’t work, and neither does the brain. The mouse’s body is gone. But when asked about the psychological properties, more than half the children said that these would continue: the […]

Richard Morin – When Malls Stay Open on Sundays, the Pious Party – washingtonpost.com: Gruber and Hungerman found that when states eliminated blue laws, church attendance declined while drinking and drug use increased significantly among young adults. Even more striking, the biggest change in bad behavior mostly occurred among those who frequently attended religious services, […]

Internet research 7.0 Conference Program: The conference program is available here, in PDF format.

Prejudice and fear surrounding sexual pleasure makes me weep: You’ve seen the bumper sticker: “You think education is expensive? Try ignorance.” The costs of sexual ignorance are far, far greater than the costs of honest sexual education. —— knowledge in this case is necessary, to keep someone in ignorance because of personal embarassment seems to […]

Google Book Search: Celebrate Your Freedom to Read: plore Banned Books For more information about Banned Books Week (September 23rd-30th), visit http://www.ala.org/bbooks. Is a book being challenged or banned in your community? The ALA can help you do something about it. To Kill a Mockingbird. Of Mice and Men. The Great Gatsby. 1984. It’s hard […]