Creating Wikipedia Content…. As part of my research for a forthcoming translation and chapter on Walter Map and William of Newburgh's vampire fragments, I checked out wikipedia (links above) and found that the Map page claims that he was one of the first to write about King Arthur (in the 12th Century!) and there was no page for Newburgh. So I'm going to put my general info up on wikipedia and help rectify the situation. [Team Polysynchronous - Just Differently Intelligent - - Just Differently Intelligent -]

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shiny j is giving back

Australian conference presentations. The presentations from the conference, Changing Research Practices in the Digital Information and Communication Environment (Canberra, June 1, 2004), are now online. [Open Access News]

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some interesting presentations here if youa reinterested in digital information in the academic environment.

Knowing Their Politics by the Software They Use. It is perhaps not surprising that the parties find themselves on different sides in the politics of software as well. By By STEVE LOHR. [The New York Times > Technology] [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

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i don't think it really has anything to do with their politics unless he means subpolitics.

and do laundry, and pick up house, do dishes

ever wonder who decides and why some of these stories get published? i explain this one with the theory that there is probably a foot fetishist involved