Friday, September 03, 2004

Audio Processing on Your Graphics Card? [Slashdot:] 2:16:59 PM      Google It!.

Port-A-Nuke [Slashdot:] 12:38:54 PM      Google It!.

Britain is the World's Surveillance Leader [Slashdot:] "Big Brother is always watching in Britain. An estimated 4.2 million closed-circuit TV cameras observe people going about their everyday business, from getting on a bus to lining up at the bank to driving around London. It's widely estimated that the average Briton is scrutinized by 300 cameras a day." -- possibly an interesting resource for field studies of wildlife - like the webcams on watering holes in Africa --BL 10:43:02 AM      Google It!.

24/7 Tutoring Now Available for American Public University System's Distance Learning Students. American Public University System students -- currently 11,000 distance learners around the world -- will soon each have access to 10 free hours of tutoring from a 24-hour online tutoring center. The University System ( http://www.apus.edu ) is compris [Online Learning Update] 10:36:48 AM      Google It!.

Microsoft's new music service supports RSS with feeds for the top 100 songs, albums and artists. Nice job. The top songs feed even has enclosures with an excerpts of the song. Excellent. [Scripting News] 10:35:45 AM      Google It!.

Internet2 Speed Record Broken [Slashdot:] 6.63Gbps 10:34:19 AM      Google It!.

Brits to demo world's largest computing grid. Equivalent to 100,000 boy racer PCs [The Register] 10:30:39 AM      Google It!.

Correlation between hit rates and citation counts. A new study in the BMJ [Thomas Perneger BMJ 2004; 546-547 (4 September)] finds the hit count on the website in the week after online publication predicted the number of citations in subsequent years. The paper concludes that the hit count is a potentially useful measure of the scientific value of a research paper. [Open Access News] 10:25:35 AM      Google It!.