Write for you. This is just too good to miss. Elizabeth Hall Associates looks to be one of those promising startups that boldly tap into the steadily growing market of sleep-deprived, ambitious students. “We provide a totally secure and confidential customised writing service, copywriting and personal effectiveness skills building. CUSTOMIZED ACADEMIC WORK CANNOT BE DETECTED BY NATIONAL […]

Spatial metaphor considered harmful. Matt Jones, reflecting on the last Information Architecture Summit: “We talk about navigating when we mean understanding.” (Go read his post if you're wondering about the font size and color.) [Seb's Open Research] mapping, ie navigating, isn't understanding it is representing. In the map we have the ability to understand an abstraction, […]

Sun Certified System Administrator. 3 Apr 2003: Unix Review tells us about the Sun Certified System Administrator.”This month, I will focus on the Sun Certified System Administrator, Part I exam for Solaris 9 (exam CX-310-014). This exam consists of 57 multiple-choice, drag-and-drop, and free response questions that must be answered within 105 minutes, with 64% […]

When Games Override Calls as Phone Feature. Nokia, Sony Ericsson and their competitors are deploying technology to let callers kick, punch and beat one another up over their mobile handsets. By Matt Richtel. [New York Times: Technology] zam, bang, smash, god i despise phones, i really do, not the users, but the concept that you […]

Steve Hitchcock has created two extremely useful w …. Steve Hitchcock has created two extremely useful web pages amounting to a comprehensive and up-to-date directory of OAI-compliant, open-access eprint archives. The Core metalist of open access eprint archives lists the major lists of archives by type. The Metalist of open access eprint archives is the […]

The April issue of Learned Publishing is now onlin …. The April issue of Learned Publishing is now online. Here are the FOS-related articles. Only the table of contents and abstracts are freely accessible. Colin Steele, Phoenix rising: new models for the research monograph? Mark S. Frankel, Seizing the moment: scientists' authorship rights in the […]

Blogs Rule on Lawrence.com (Go Jayhawks!). Blogs Are No. 1! Blogs Are No. 1! “The most-read content at Lawrence.com? Believe it or not, it's currently the city site's weblogs, according to general manager Rob Curley. Curley & Co. have crafted Lawrence.com into an edgy site with wide appeal to a younger audience (Lawrence is home […]

More spooky .gov stuff. Derek Murphy is one of 2 other bloggers who have also seen a hit from another weird .gov: http://sseop101.eop.gov/ “eop”? Anyone? [www.gulker.com – words and pictures from Silicon Valley] wierd, is it time to do a foi request. or perhaps ask your representative, the best bet is that it is executive […]

Next trick: doing this on the highway at 100km/h.. Gary Turner has put together something I want. The Geek Gene explains it. [The Doc Searls Weblog] cool toy!

Reasons not to become a scientist. On the heels of my previous post Are doctorates worthwhile? comes Don't Become a Scientist!, another rather dispiriting view of why science today might not be the best spot for bright young people to settle into. I became a scientist in order to have the freedom to work on […]