Category — General

New England linebacker Matt Chatham leveled the man as he ran from security personnel. The man, who had the name of a gambling Web site scribbled across his chest, was hogtied and carried off the field by police.

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i think two things about this:
a. it is somewhat unfair for a linebacker to take out a streaker, I mean it isn't like a soccer player or such. the linebacker's job is to stop people from running and catch them and knock them down.
b. it is dumb to streak on a professional football field, when you know there are people there that can knock you into next week. imagine if big ted washington tackled the guy, they'd still be getting bits of him out of the turf.

not really, just threw out my 2003 Badtz Maru calendar, but cleaning the office does bring back memories, i have alot of information from when i was director of vtonline back in '98-2000, and rid myself of most of the day to day files, keeping on the most important and relevant files. I also found most of my homework from my m.a., hehehe, good stuff.

Copyright transfer: read and sign, right? Wait! ….. Professor Stuart M. Shieber of Harvard University has posted two sample Alternative Copyright Assignments on his web site. One transfers copyright to the publisher but retains other non-commercial usage rights; the other is a license to publish the work but keeps copyright and all other IP rights in the hands of the author. (Note: Peter has added this to his list of what universities can do to help OA.) [Open Access News]

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i have several uses for these statements:) they come at just the right time.

this a somewhat true, somewhat humorous, interesting bit to consider, opinion piece over on mac daily news. it isn't hard for users that prefer stable, secure machines to think those that prefer lemons are mentally ill. however, lets keep in mind that some people buy really crappy cars too.

it is somewhat interesting, it is strange to see what people believe or say they believe. i can see how it is problematic, what is best is the way they construct the experts or perhaps just the people who have opinons….

uiweb: How to manage smart people. Over the years I've experienced many mistakes and successes in both how I was managed, and how I managed others. What follows is a short distillation of some of what I've learned. There's no one way to manage people, but there are some approaches that I think most good managers share. [Tomalak's Realm]

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interesting analysis

to the best of my knowledge, which is somewhat limited, you will not be able to buy the g5's from the old cluster from virginia tech, so stop looking and to to store.apple.com and check under refurbished, look for a dual g5 with 10.2.7, it is about as close as you'll get, or so i think.

Bush Stonewalls 9/11 Panel, Opposes Request for More Time. The Bush administration, for whatever reason, has prevented the 9/11 panel from doing its job properly. Now it opposes the bipartisan investigators' request for more time to finish the task. [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]

Maximizing Research Impact Through Self-Archiving. Maximizing Research Impact Through Self-Archiving
http://jekyll.sissa.it/jekyll_comm/articoli/art07_01_eng.htm

Researchers and their universities are beginning to realize that the online era has made it possible to enhance the impact of their research dramatically. It's no longer necessary to mail or e-mail reprints of peer-reviewed articles for them to be cited in others' research. Research can now be publicly self-archived in a university's Eprint Archives, making it instantly accessible to all would-be users worldwide, without the need to make or respond to reprint requests. Researchers, of course, have long since posted their papers on their own Web sites. But searchers had difficulty finding them using conventional search engines. Now, thanks to the Open Archives Initiative, the infrastructure for maximizing university research impact is already in place or at least available. Needed now are institutional policies and computational tools designed to create and fill the university Eprint Archives quickly. Stevan Harnad of the University of Quebec at Montreal says universities need to adopt a self-archiving policy that extends their existing “publish or perish” policy to “publish with maximal impact.” A potential model for such a policy, along with free software for creating a standardized online university CV, can be found at:

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/archpolnew.html.

In addition, Harnad urges university libraries to help with the first wave of self-archiving, doing “proxy” self-archiving for those researchers who aren't already doing it themselves.
[Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant]

The Packet Gang [Interactivist Info Exchange]

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a nice theoretical exposition on opennness and its issues.