Category — General

And So It Begins: ”

Culture of life, my ass.

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(Via Red Bird Rising.)

I agree. a culture of life begins by respecting those who are living full lives, republicans aren’t doing this. they promote a culture of death and the management of other people’s body under the rubric of ‘culture of life’, a culture of life does not imprison the life of the woman within the life of a fetus, it respects the life of the fetus as dependent on the life of the mother, there is no right outside of the life of the woman that the unborn has.

Presidential Yacht . Um, Democrats?…: “

Presidential Yacht. Um, Democrats? Families are taking donations to send body armor to their kids and Bush gets himself a presidential yacht? If you can’t figure out how to play this one…

The Senate voted 65-30 for the legislation late on Saturday that sets aside funds for a range of priorities including a presidential yacht, foreign aid and energy. It is one of the final pieces of work for the 108th Congress and they may return to finish a spy agency overhaul before the end of the year.

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…I’m serious. If the DNC isn’t on the ground tomorrow running ads saying Bush took your kid’s Pell grant away so he could spend the money on a yacht they’re fools… [Eschaton]“QB

Yep. $2 million budgeted to get the presedential yacht. Nice that some have their priorities right. Cut funding to NIH but get Bush his yacht.“

(Via A Man with a Ph.D. – Richard Gayle’s Weblog.)

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i know what i would choose…. do you?

Eric Hellweg, “Is ‘Fair Use’ in Peril?”: “”

(Via Interactivist Info Exchange.)

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yes, but is as imperil by people that wrongly claim it, and thus cause backlash, as from those that want to stop it.

Buy Nothing Day – Adbusters Culturejammers: “”

(Via .)

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it’s that time of the year.

The New York Times > Business > Your Money > Digital Domain: When a Video Game Stops Being Fun: “”

(Via .)

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last year… this time, i put walmart on my permanent boycott list because of their unfair treatment of workers, this year, i will add ea to the list. why permanent? it is because ea and walmart already have and own the dirty money from those practices. it isn’t something that they can rectify, they can fix the current situation, sure, and should they somehow become enlightened centers of leadership in employee treatment… that would be a good thing.

Sports News Article | Reuters.com: “”

(Via .)

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bull, you just shouldn’t allow unsportsmanlike conduct. it is very simple. if you throw a punch or shove someone, or do anything not directly related to the game, in an unsportsmanlike manner, you should be banned from playing for 2 years and be fined 40% of your gross income for those 2 years. take the profit out of thuggery, and thugs leave the sport.

Barney’s Biography: “”

(Via .)

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the real power in the whitehouse.

Spitting Image: Faith-Based Parks?: “”

(Via .)

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the u.s. is rapidly becoming a laughingstock.

Technology Review: Is ‘Fair Use’ in Peril? : “”

(Via .)

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time to write the congressmen and senators…..

Launch of Google Scholar: “Tomorrow Google will launch the beta version of Google Scholar, although it is online today for use. From the press release: ‘[W]e are excited to announce Google Scholar, a free search service that helps users find scholarly literature such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports. This service will be available tomorrow morning….Like Google Web Search, Google Scholar orders search results by relevancy to ensure the most useful references appear at the top of the page. This ranking takes into account the full text of each article as well as the article’s author, the publication in which the article appeared, and how often it has been cited in scholarly literature….Whenever possible, Google searches across the full text of a paper, not just the abstract….Google Scholar offers relevant results for a wide range of scholarly materials including research that isn’t yet online. For instance much of Einstein’s work isn’t online, but it is heavily cited by other researchers. Google Scholar leverages these citations to make users aware of important papers or books that are not online, yet may be available in their local library.’

(PS: This is an important development. It will make OA literature even more visible and retrievable than it already is. It will give authors new incentives to make their work OA. It will help readers find what they need. Because it indexes work that is not online, even non-OA publishers will have an incentive to participate, making it more and comprehensive and useful. When you run a search, Google Search labels each hit by the number of citations it has, presumably from other works in the index. It also lets you click through to a new page showing just those citing works. Authors and publishers: see the FAQ for instructions on how to make sure that your work is included.)”

(Via Open Access News.)

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i think it is good, but it doesn’t do the metadata well and really… i find the metadata search on things like ingenta.com to be very useful.