Friday, November 19, 2004

Get out those sneakers, babe: Even Couch Potatoes May Have Been Born to Run. Humans evolved into the way they look today probably because of the need to cover long distances, scientists said today. By By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD. [NYT > Home Page] 7:51:37 PM  comment []  Trackback []     The FCC Censorship Machine. Jeff Jarvis: Censorship by the tyranny of the few. With not much original reporting, I discovered that the latest big fine by the FCC against a TV network -- a record $1.2 million against Fox for its "sexually suggestive" Married by America -- was brought about by a mere three people who actually composed letters of complaint. Yes, just three people. The First Amendment is under attack, and I can't understand why the "conservatives" are so happy to see it happen. They've rightly complained about some of the left's overzealous "speech codes" at universities, but can't see why this is a much, much bigger threat -- ultimately to their own speech. I just got back to Hong Kong from Shanghai, where I met some young bloggers who have been cowed by odious government speech restrictions; they don't dare talk politics in a medium that is made to order for debating the issues of our times. America isn't China, but what's going on with broadcast censorship is an awful trend. [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 7:42:53 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Google Science Search. Jeremy Faludi: Google has a new tool for searching scientific literature, Google Scholar. It seems pretty impressive. For instance, searching for "biomineralization" turned up 3700 hits on... [WorldChanging: Another World Is Here] 7:41:08 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Hear, hear...have you seen Microsoft's offering? Have you vomited yet?... Adaptive Path: Making A Better CMS. Jeffrey Veen. The experience cemented a theory of mine: Most open source content management software is useless. The only thing worse is every commercial CMS I've used. But it doesn't have to be that way. This whole category of software desperately needs to be redesigned with writers, editors, designers, and site owners in mind. [Tomalak's Realm] 7:39:28 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Just finished a business class today in which a very smart professor lamented that in 18 months, Google will have been over-run by Microsoft. Can we prevent this?... Google Scholar. This should be useful - Google Scholar: " Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web." [elearnspace] 7:37:30 PM  comment []  Trackback []

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