Book Reviews
-- Comment() Latest Maps of the Internet: ""Yesterday morning Opte.org announced that they have successfully mapped the entire internet." [Slashdot]
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-- Comment() Moglen on SCO - Again! 'No lawyer of my reasonably broad acquaintance, no matter what his or her view of the GPL may be, takes this moonshine seriously. After failing on the facts, failing on the law, and raising no more than derisive laughter from pounding the table, even the proverbial shyster is out of luck. What will we see next from SCO, an attack on the umpire?' [GrepLaw]
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-- Comment() National LambdaRail launches: "On the launch of the first leg of the National LambdaRail, an optical, ultrafast network dedicated to scientific research. [...] Given the size of modern research projects, from the human genome to 3D maps of universe, much larger pipes are needed to connect research centers if distributed researchers are to share data and tools." [Open Access News]
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-- Comment() Open access to books: "The California Digital Library has added XML tags to the electronic editions of books published by the University of California Press, and is now offering 1,400 of the resulting ebooks free of charge to UC users. It offers 400+ free online to the general public [...] Some of the books are fiction, and the rest monographs in all disciplines from the sciences to the humanities." [Open Access News]
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-- Comment() Europe to adopt Wi-Fi faster than US: "Mobile-friendliness, cafe culture key drivers, says analyst." [The Register]
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