Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Arizona Reporter Newswire Arizona Calendar of Events & Happenings. September 7-24, 2005; Grand Canyon Music Festival (GCMF) @ Shrine of the Ages Auditorium | South Rim | Click here for info. Where: Grand Canyon.. (3126 words) [Arizona Reporter Newswire] 9:51:35 PM

Caruso Enrico Caruso. Collected works of Enrico Caruso. Approximately seven hours of vintage, public domain recordings of Il Maestro, courtesy of the Internet Archive's 78 rpm collections. Amongst my favourites: Del Tempio Al Limita, a duet with Mario Ancona from Bizet's The Pearl Fishers, and Cantique de Noel. Sublime. [MetaFilter] 9:45:37 PM

RNA Nanotech Purdue scientists treat cancer with RNA nanotechnology. Using strands of genetic material, Purdue University scientists have constructed tiny delivery vehicles that can carry anticancer therapeutic agents directly to infected cells, offering a potential wealth of new treatments for chronic diseases. [Physics Org] 9:18:44 PM

Poole, Neb. After 60 years, letter of slain soldier makes it home. POOLE, Neb. - It took more than 60 years, but the final letter of a soldier killed in World War II finally made it home. [azcentral.com | thebuzz] 9:10:55 PM

Thursday Meetings at Berkman 2005/09/15 Proposed Agenda. Proposed Agenda: Introductions RSS Remixing? Questions/comments from new bloggers Recap: Combining our group with the Boston Weblogger Meetup Group once a month If we're in agreement to do this, let's pick a week It's probably even more inevitable that we'll talk about the schedule again the mic What else? Eat: Last week: Yenching! During the meeting, participate via: there's a good chance there will be no live audio unless someone finds the mic IRC chat live notes join us at Baker House! [Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog] 8:57:56 PM

Nightmare #5 Nightmare #5. NIGHTMARE #5 "this is high quality book....." A truly great horror comic in PDF-format served to us by the always great DataJunkie . By (mrdantefontana). [PCL LinkDump] 8:52:58 PM

Blog Search Google launches blog search. New tool searches the text of posts sent out via RSS and Atom, including those in languages such as French, Korean and others. [CNET News.com] 8:15:23 AM

Threadwatch.org Natural SEO v PPC - where's the ROI?. Seems old, but don't recall seeing this iProspect report (PDF) mentioned: "35% of organizations that outsource their natural search engine optimization and also participate in pay per click advertising - and can measure the ROI of each - recognize a higher return from SEO. This compares to just 11% of marketers from the same universe who report that pat per click advertising produces higher ROI." And another - doubtlessly still in 'they would say that' country - quote: For those new to the search engine marketing space, it would seem logical to conclude that based upon the vast number of marketers participating in pay per click advertising that it would be a more lucrative channel than natural search engine optimization - which is known to involve a lot more work. But, the numbers speak for themselves. By mat. [Threadwatch.org - Marketing and Technology Discussed] 7:27:53 AM

HiRISE Camera Camera's Trip To Mars Is No Leisure Cruise For Hirise Team. The High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera is rocketing toward Mars, and it's no leisure cruise for the camera operations team at The University of Arizona campus in Tucson either. The team turned the HiRISE camera on Friday, September 2. [Physics Org] 7:24:03 AM

Faust Faust. Although The Crime in your Coffee has moved to this address, his old Faust of the week archive is still online. Fantastic illustrations. [The Cartoonist] 7:21:16 AM

Germany in the Sixties Germany in the Sixties. Die wilden 60er. [The Cartoonist] 7:18:58 AM