Sick CSS tricks. Okay, this is utterly sick and utterly fascinating. Never mind rounded corners. Using zero-dimension boxes just for the sake of the borders is where it’s at. Via Simon…. [Caveat Lector] this is nifty, alot of cool stuff.

The June issue of Upgrade is devoted to Open Knowl …. The June issue of Upgrade is devoted to Open Knowledge. The guest editors are Philippe Aigrain and Jesús M. González-Barahona. All the articles are good, but here are the ones most relevant to open access. Philippe Aigrain and Jesús M. González-Barahona, Ownership and Terms […]

HeckleBot – A project to support heckling at conferences. Many conferences have wifi for the audience these days. People blog the conferences or chat during the conferences. There is definitely a back channel and a lot of people who track conferences online. At a recent conference in Helsinki, Kevin Marks, who was in California, wrote […]

More on the Sabo bill….The official text is now …. More on the Sabo bill….The official text is now online at THOMAS. The URL I used in today's issue of SOAN has already expired. I hope this one lasts longer. [FOS News] I suggest that everyone that can support this bill which helps rebuild the […]

A Solution to the Adjunct Problem?. The Adjunct Problem has rather a nineteenth-century ring to it (think, for example, of the Woman Question). The management at D-squared Digest have drawn inspiration from the nineteenth-century practice of buying and selling military commission and clerical livings to propose… [Invisible Adjunct] this is not a solution to the […]

I think this covers alot of material that might be useful. having sent out several applications in the last few months, and having used most of this type of advice, though not from this site, i think it is worth the perusal

how many people out there actually have a page or an attachment to their dossier that explains their research interests? do you differentiate those from your current projects? I'm in one of those explaining modes, I guess; trying to show how my work, teaching, research is related or not. I think it is of course […]

WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the […]

Taboo has been played 4158 times. Your Moralising Quotient of 0.04 compares to an average Moralising Quotient of 0.24. This means that as far as the events depicted in the scenarios featured in this activity are concerned you are more permissive than average. Your Interference Factor of 0.00 compares to an average Interference Factor of […]

119321 people have completed this activity to date. You suffered zero direct hits and bit zero bullets. This compares with the average player of this activity to date who takes 1.37 hits and bites 1.10 bullets. 7.49% of the people who have completed this activity, like you, emerged unscathed with the TPM Medal of Honour. […]