Kudos to Cornell University for the launch of the Open Access University Press. University press-type books will be made freely available on line, and can be purchased through on-demand publishing. This leverages technology to perform the function university presses were always intended to achieve – making high-quality academic information available to the people who need …
When I’ve written in the past about RS 2477, it’s been primarily about private property issues. Here’s an interesting RS 2477 site that deals with the issue as relates to public lands.
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Happy Pi Day. Do something special at 1:59 this afternoon (if you didn’t already at 1:59 this morning).
I now think Lance Armstrong has a good chance of winning this year’s Tour de France. I was not so sure. The machine no longer looked invincible last year. He looked good, but it did not look like fun. This year? If there’s a moment, a clue, it perhaps is the third stage of the …
Pikas, pygmy possums and tiny flowers in the high Swiss Alps are climate changes “canary in the coal mine,” signalling changes underway, according to a news piece in today’s Science by Kevin Krajick (sub. req.): Alpine ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to climate change, and recent studies suggest that mountain dwellers–from delicate flowers in the Swiss …
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Abe Fettig helpfully pointed me to instructions on creating topic-based RSS feeds in Movable Type, allowing a solution to the Planet Malkovich problem. So with Abe’s help, I herewith am now able (if I cut and pasted correctly – man I love the commons that is free/open software) to offer category-based RSS feeds. It’s rather …
Bobby Julich gives it one more shot: “It’s not about winning races or being on the podium of the Tour, winning the money or becoming famous,” Julich said. “For me it was one thing: For those three weeks in 1998, I was in the zone. That was the most amazing feeling. If there’s anything I …