Garrett's blog

Garrett's blog

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Under the Volcano #

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GeoURL #

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Drugs that conquer hell
(times Online; source: SciTechDaily) #

      ( 7:01 AM ) Garrett
CNN.com - Iran admits holding al Qaeda operatives - May. 23, 2003 (Source: Netscape.com) #

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Web Search for a Planet: the Google Cluster Architecture (Source: IEEE What's New in Computing, May 2003) #

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Um, Folks, This Doesn't Look Like Victory Molly Ivins on winning the war and losing the peace #

      ( 1:31 PM ) Garrett
Computing's lost Allure from the NY Times Circuits section ("there's no money in it; he'd rather marry ...") #

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New Scientist: controversy over passive smoking dangers #

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Pentagon Defends Data Search Plan It's now called the Terrorism Information Awareness ... A 100-page report failed to assuage critics of the DARPA initiative .. the most telling quote from the news story: "It goes against our very character as a nation to accept that anybody is guilty until proven innocent in America," said Lori Waters, executive director of the Eagle Forum, a conservative political organization. "And, that's exactly what Total Information Awareness does. It makes us all summary suspects, and does so without any guarantee that it will catch the bad guys." (Source; Edupage)
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How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
(Source: the (Sci-tech) library question) #

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Alchemy with light shocks physicists New Scientist reports that the Joannopoulos group has taken control of light to a new level using photonic crystals ... #

      ( 11:40 AM ) Garrett
Copied citations give impact factors a boost Nature 423, 373 (2003); doi:10.1038/423373a

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Physicists Praise Radcliffe ‘Cluster’ Story about a group of theoretical physicists spending a year at Radcliffe, a jumping off point for new research directions there, possibly. #

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Boston Globe Online / Business / Leave me alone! Related to the NYT article below ... #

      ( 11:48 AM ) Garrett
Unsuspecting Computer Users Relay Spam
from the New York Times; I'm probably one of them. #

      ( 9:22 AM ) Garrett
Symposium on Electronic Scientific, Technical and Medical Journal Publishing and its Implications

Pretty amazing symposium ... Hope they will publish it .... #

      ( 8:19 AM ) Garrett
U.S. to Fingerprint Most Foreign Visitors #

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Pentagon Spy System to Aim for Terrorists More on the TIA (should it be called Thanks in Advance) #

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Smartmoney.com: Consumer Action: 10 Ways to Keep Your Car Out of the Shop #

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Are your fit to run your own biz? - May. 19, 2003 #

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Three secrets about your cell phone - May. 15, 2003 #

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XML in Libraries (Book Review May 2003) a review of Roy Tennant's book ... #

      ( 11:40 AM ) Garrett
EducationGuardian.co.uk | eG weekly | Academic rivalry and fraud a story titled "Peer Trouble," in the Guardian, reflects on some celebrated cases of scientific fraud in recent years ... #

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Cracking idea gets to the core: Astronomer says time is ripe for an unmanned journey to the centre of the Earth. wierd ... i didn't blog it beforre because it seemed too outrageous ... #

      ( 8:23 AM ) Garrett
Prober Faults NASA Shuttle Judgments (washingtonpost.com) Sad .... (Source: SciTechDaily) #

      ( 8:06 AM ) Garrett
EEVL | News(Ibid.) #

      ( 8:05 AM ) Garrett
Throw another blog on the wire Harder and Reichardt (Source: The (sci-tech) Library Question, May 19, 2003) #