Posts from — July 2004

Widening the Eprints network. The presentations from the workshop, Putting Eprints Software into the User Community (London, June 23, 2004), are now online. [Open Access News]

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interesting and useful

Teachers' Domain is a multimedia digital library for the classroom
that provides learning experiences in ways no textbook can. Includes
collections on Life Science, Physical Science, Engineering, The Civil
Rights Movement, Brown v. Board of Education, and more. [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

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interesting.

now apparently advertising without cause is a patriot act violation …. they will use whatever tools to get you that they can, this is the truth.

j3r3mi ruls. World famous carmiudgen Jeremy helped me with a mysterious problem. All the sudden my 60 gig harddrive was full. Even though I had 15 gigs free a day or two ago. We tired everything… deleting /.Trashes stuff, clearing journaling, etc… du didn't turn anything up… until Jeremy suggested the following line: du -k | sort -n | tail -150 > /tmp/top50 which dumped the top 150 biggest directories into a file. I'd missed a hidded VOLUME “./Volumes/untitled CD” that was full of junk. Seems it got started when something crashed while burning a cd. Nuked that volume, and got all my space back. Scary.

Thanks Jeremy [Team Polysynchronous - Just Differently Intelligent - - Just Differently Intelligent -]

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i am not a carmudgeon. i am a curmudgeon.

FactCheck.org: Holding
politicians accountable [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

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interesting little tool.

i drank a glass of bath water…..

it was natural history, it was the pitt rivers, and it was the scientific instruments.

from oxford, here they are

isn't he, certainly. it is.

Yet Another Killer Drone: We'll Defeat the Children with Robots.

The call to meet the challenge of the relentless Defenseless Baby Scourge is addressed once again as Northrop Grumman joins Boeing in unveiling a new automated flying drone. The X-47B robotic fighter jet was presented in full-scale mockup this week, but won't be ready to fly the friendly skies until sometime in 2006 (no matter what the photoshopped picture might imply). That means for now flesh-and-blood pilots will still have to risk loss of life to bomb back the laconic hordes of adorably drooling infants that currently terrorize the world's most dangerous orphanages.
Read – MORE KILLER DRONES ON THE RUNWAY [DefenseTech]

Related
Killer Drones: Not Just For the Scottish Anymore

[Gizmodo]

[Gizmodo]

good, nifty, yummy, deadly….. wrong.