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Ninja!
Ninja!
You are a sneaky Ninja.
We don't even know you're there…
before it's too late!

Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot?
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March 26, 2004   No Comments

big science runs wild

just look at what he did to that bear

March 26, 2004   No Comments

Fri, 26 Mar 2004 17:51:45 GMT

ACM on e-journal economics. Anat Hovav and Paul Gray, Managing academic e-journals, Communications of the ACM 47(4), 79-82 (April 2004). (Access restricted to subscribers.) Hovav and Gray consider e-journals from a number of economic and distribution factors, pointing to their increasing acceptance by researchers, as well as difficulties in marketing and archiving, but not addressing the open access question. Rather, they point to the decline in the percentage of “free” journals, thus remarking their unsustainability. (Source: Confessions of a Science Librarian) [Open Access News]

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interesting article……

March 26, 2004   No Comments

against cars?

yes, cars are contrary to having a good campus climate. everyone knows it, no one wants to admit it. just think about what they mean to most people personally and culturally and you'll see why.

here are my commonly suggested ideas to discourage car use when possible:

  • parking fees that scale significantly higher when you live within reasonable walking distance to class, live on campus, want to have a car? that will be $500/m live within a 1/4 mile circle of campus, 400/m, 1/2 mile 200/m etc. waivers will apply for certain conditions of course.
  • close all main campus roads to all vehicles other than visitors, service vehicles and public transportation between 8am and 5pm, and ticket heavily.
  • remove parking from areas where people can walk from a major parking lot. get rid of lots or lines that hold less than 100 cars and make them parks.
  • provide emergency transportation for people who walk to work, call xxxxx to get a quick ride home in case you forgot something. etc.

March 26, 2004   No Comments