At risk of sounding catty, I think someone's been fishing without a pole:
PETA's Latest - Fish Shall Now Be Called "Sea Kittens" - Slashfood
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Project Gutenberg Release Mobile Edition eBooks
Digging through the back files...
Dec 22, 2008
Dec 22, 2008
Project Gutenberg Release Mobile Edition eBooks
PG Mobile is going to be a new addition to gutenberg.org, which will allow mobile/cell phone users to download and read eBooks. The files will be available on the normal download page of any PG eBook.
Source: Project Gutenberg News (via Library Stuff)
'Cybergeddon' fear stalks US
Folks don't talk about this threat as much. Think about the online systems involved in every aspect of your life - banking, health care, stocks, etc. Brrr.
'Cybergeddon' fear stalks US: FBI
via KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News on 1/6/09Computer attacks pose the biggest risk "from a national security perspective, other than a weapon of mass destruction or a bomb in one of our major cities," says Shawn Henry, assistant director of the FBI's cyber division. Henry said that terrorist groups are working to create a virtual 9/11, "inflicting the same kind of damage on our country, on all our countries, on all our networks, as they did in 2001 by flying planes into buildings." (Source: http://www.physorg.com/news150486206.html)
'Cybergeddon' fear stalks US: FBI
via KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News on 1/6/09Computer attacks pose the biggest risk "from a national security perspective, other than a weapon of mass destruction or a bomb in one of our major cities," says Shawn Henry, assistant director of the FBI's cyber division. Henry said that terrorist groups are working to create a virtual 9/11, "inflicting the same kind of damage on our country, on all our countries, on all our networks, as they did in 2001 by flying planes into buildings." (Source: http://www.physorg.com/news150486206.html)
Lorcan Dempsey- Always On: Libraries in a World of Continuous Connectivity
Lorcan Dempsey has this article in the latest issue of First Monday:
Always On: Libraries in a World of Continuous Connectivity
Set aside some time to digest this article thoroughly - it's an excellent overview of where our libraries should be moving.
Always On: Libraries in a World of Continuous Connectivity
Set aside some time to digest this article thoroughly - it's an excellent overview of where our libraries should be moving.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Our Unconscious Brain Makes The Best Decisions Possible
[Insert your own joke here...]
Our Unconscious Brain Makes The Best Decisions Possible from Science Daily via KurzweilAI.net
Flu-gle? Floo-gle?
According to the 01/01/2009 issue of Information Today, Google paired with the CDC to see if search patterns could be correlated with regional flu outbreaks.
Read the background here:
http://www.google.org/about/flutrends/how.html
I'm going to keep a watch on the site this winter
Mobile Learning in Classrooms of the Future
I'm trying to imagine teaching information literacy on a smart phone.
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