Monday, August 23, 2004

'Marathon mouse' doubles stamina. Scientists find genetically-modified mice can run twice as far, in a development that could help human stamina. [BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition] 9:49:07 PM      Google It!.

The US Department of Education supports RSS. Bing! [Scripting News] 7:33:22 PM      Google It!.

Information Preservation and Data Havens? [Slashdot:] 4:42:06 PM      Google It!.

New Robots and the Ten Ethical Laws Of Robotics [Slashdot:] 2:05:04 PM      Google It!.

Cheating Made Easy [Slashdot:] 2:01:30 PM      Google It!.

New Fat-Busting Microwave Oven Unveiled. TOKYO (Reuters) - Eyeing up that juicy steak but worried about your waistline? Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp. 6753.T says it has developed a new fat-busting microwave oven that can melt some of your worries away. [Reuters: Technology] 1:56:13 PM      .

Mark Pilgrim article about RSS 2.0 guids. In theory yes people could do guids wrong, but in practice they work and are one of the most useful additions in 2.0. Guids help aggregators know for sure that they've seen an item, so they don't waste the user's time by showing it again. I wrote a howto for guids. "A convenience that many users will appreciate, especially people who are in a hurry." [Scripting News] 1:53:23 PM      Google It!.

Composite Of Earth At Night [Slashdot:] 1:52:11 PM      Google It!.

Transparent Aluminum Is Here [Slashdot:] 1:48:51 PM      .

Red Brains vs. Blue Brains? [Slashdot:] 1:44:54 PM      Google It!.

$1bn to build unmanned fighter. A US company has received more than $1bn in funding to build prototype unmanned fighter aircraft for the American military. [BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition] 1:42:10 PM      Google It!.

Disruptive technologies in scholarly communication. Susan Lafferty and Jenny Edwards, Disruptive technologies: what future universities and their libraries? Library Management, 26, 6 (2004) pp. 252-58. Only this abstract is free online: "Christensen's Theory of Disruptive Technologies predicts that mainstream organisations and industries can be made obsolete by new technologies that change the whole paradigm of the industries in which they operate. This paper demonstrates the relevance of the theory of disruptive technologies to academic libraries, higher education and the academic publishing industry. The way universities are organised and how they operate could change radically; scholarly communication could be transformed, placing academic publishers at risk; academic libraries may become irrelevant as new business models emerge. There are strategies that these organisations might adopt to limit the effect of such technologies and/or preferably transform them into sustaining technologies." [Open Access News] 1:40:51 PM      Google It!.

Jakob Nielsen Talks About Usability in FOSS [Slashdot:] 1:38:09 PM      Google It!.