Vout-aroonee with a Floy-Floy. Vout-aroonee with a Floy-Floy. Slim Gaillard was immortalized by Jack Kerouac, wrote great songs, was a jive pioneer and even appeared in Charlie's Angels. [MetaFilter] time comes and goes along these lines far too frequently….

to reflect so poorly. Plagiarism is an ugly word. Ung Lee, a Princeton Graduate, has one numerous awards for his writing, under the tutelage of Joyce Carl Oates. It's just that so many of those words were not his own. [MetaFilter] i wonder did they take the awards away?

Dear colleague, this is the Call for Papers for the 3rd IEEE* Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT2003)to be held October 22-24, 2003 at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. (Please check www.SIIT2003.org for a PDF or HTML version of this CfP.) CONFERENCE THEME Information Technology (IT) plays a pervasive role […]

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sce/cw2003/cw2003.htm 2003 International Conference on CYBERWORLDS 3-5 December 2003, Marina Mandarin Hotel, Singapore organized by: School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University in cooperation with: IEEE Computer Society SIGGRAPH Call for Submissions Cyberworlds are information worlds being formed on the web either intentionally or spontaneously, with or without design. As information worlds, they are either […]

Dear Colleagues, I invite you to visit the new website of global public goods Network (gpgNet) at http://www.gpgNet.net gpgNet intends to serve researchers, policymakers, business and civil society as a platform for information exchange and discussion on issues concerning the theory, policy design and practice of providing global public goods. On gpgNet you will find […]

Total Poindexter Awareness tech spooks – a Who's Who [The Register] now which one of you are on the list under pseudonyms?

Citation Maps. HighWire Press has nice visualisations of citation data for its journals. Here's an example Citation Map. Most of the cited articles are free to access as well…. [HubLog] this is interesting and good i suppose for all the right reasons, well until the press goes under…

Science Citation Index. Following a few earlier papers on the same subject, in 1964 Eugene Garfield set out his vision of a unified Science Citation Index as an integral part of the World Brain, a descendent of Vanevar Bush's Memex. Almost 40 years later, how far have we come? [HubLog] well given the disintegration of […]

The House Appropriations Committee documents Bush's lies and proken promises.. The House Appropriations Committee documents Bush's lies and broken promises. Are we starting to see an opposition party here? [MetaFilter] oh i hope this is true, i really do. governmental monoculture is more deadly than any other….

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