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Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:51:43 -0800

Nuclear Reactor Wall Charts
Super Phénix: Creys-Malville Nuclear Power Station, River Rhone (Sur le Rhone) Creys-Malville, Isere, France, Centrale Nucleaire Europeenne a Neutrons rapides SA. Wall chart insert, Nuclear Engineering International, June 1978Snupps (Standardized...
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Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:50:19 -0800

Do I really want to read a friend’s erotica? Clashing literary tastes: The ultimate ‘DRM’ against sharing
So, the publishers are very concerned that if they don’t lock down the e-books like Fort Knox, people will “share” them and this will cut into sales. A recent experience with a friend suggests to me that this concern may be over-rated. There is...
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Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:46:49 -0800

Koha 3.0.5 Released
Koha 3.0.5 was released a couple of days ago. It is a stable release of the 3.0.x tree and includes about 100 patches with bug fixes and translations: The full release notes are here. Due to the fact the Release Maintainer does not have access to...
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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:05:38 -0800

@gnat we (the NZETC) have some experiances with that kind of thing
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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:17:28 -0800

University of Otago Incunabula catalog http://bit.ly/7z8K15
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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:03:39 -0800

“Bah!” said Scrooge, “Humbug!” http://bit.ly/8R95I7 [i'm wearing a black santa hat emblazoned with 'bah humbug' right now]
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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:25:43 -0800

RT: @br3nda Seeing a half dozen "e-ink LCD" book readers hit the market. They're like environmentally friendly dolphin burgers.
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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:59:56 -0800

A little something to remember if you're thinking of buying a gadget for yourself or a loved one this christmas: bit.ly/6YL1JX
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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:09:37 -0800

Myriahedral Projection: New Award-Winning Cartographic Projection
It's not every day we see new cartographic projections, SS links to a NewScientist article named Clever folds in a globe give new perspectives on Earth. The article's introduction: "A new technique for unpeeling the Earth's skin and displaying it...
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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:31:15 -0800

Israeli Border Police Shoot US Student's Laptop
zerothink writes "American student Lily Sussman, 21, upon entry into Israel from Taba (Egypt, Sinai) caught Israeli border police in grumpy mood — after two hours of questions and searching through her belongings they decided to put three bullets...
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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:24:01 -0800

Turbine 09 generates imaginative energy

The 2009 issue of
Turbine 09 generates imaginative energyThe 2009 issue of online literary journal Turbine (www.vuw.ac.nz/turbine) is now live, featuring the best and freshest in New Zealand writing. Turbine 09 includes the title essay from Can You Tolerate This? the...
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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:33:43 -0800

ebooks already for sale in nz http://bit.ly/3R7dyI ; click on a work ; then click on the ePub icon ; mail us a cheque ; #ebook #epub #ebook
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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:27:59 -0800

Adam Prize in Creative Writing http://bit.ly/5r2BWD + link to our new content #nzetc #digitalhumanities #vuw
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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:37:41 -0800

will be sad to see the end of intute http://bit.ly/6fB3D0 and hopes a hundred new projects will spring up to replace it...
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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:13:03 -0800

The U.S. Civil Rights Movement as an Insurgency
This is interesting: Most Americans fail to appreciate that the Civil Rights movement was about the overthrow of an entrenched political order in each of the Southern states, that the segregationists who controlled this order did not hesitate to employ...
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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:39:37 -0800

@librarythingtim are you advocating curating the word curate?
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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:11:38 -0800

Microsoft DRM Locks You Out Of Your Own Documents
In case you haven't been paying attention, there's yet to be a good reason put forth for using DRM that I can remember. We've seen over and over again how DRM seems to interfere with legitimate actions, but does nothing at all to slow down...
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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:28:23 -0800

browsed a physical paper today; they're better laid-out than I remember.
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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:17:23 -0800

is pleased at the steady dip of datasets into http://www.data.govt.nz/ shows signs of sustainable growth and usefulness
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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:58:04 -0800

@gpay i have obtained a copy of the #niupepa collection from Waikato and am converted it to #TEI in my spare time.
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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:56:04 -0800

@gnat he's reading. he's coming to you with his questions. i suspect this is as good as it gets...
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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:45:30 -0800

RT @liza "Looking to root your nook? You have come to the right place!" http://bit.ly/5aR6m8 (not as dirty as it sounds) #nook #ebook
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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:11:03 -0800

@finnatic give your machines numeric names. wait, doesn't the ethernet card already do that?
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Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:25:24 -0800

@spanishmanners congratulaions / commiserations, in appropriate measures (I'll leave the measuring to you)
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Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:45:09 -0800

The $300 do-it-yourself book scanner
One fundamental difference between books and CDs is that CDs are easily ripped to MP3. But what are you going to do if you want to “rip” your books? By and large, there are only three choices: use a flatbed scanner (ridiculously time-consuming),...
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