Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
This is a tiny victory, but it is my own.
I maintain my To Do list in Google Docs now so that I can access the latest version anywhere. Usually it's just a bulleted list, but today I wanted to create a separate numbered list in outline style. Google Docs ...
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
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This is my friend Laurel Snyder's beautiful book Inside the Slidy Diner. Isn't it gorgeous? It's available at Powell's.
I put it here with a slightly involved but not difficult combination of the Google Book Search Preview Wizard, advice from this post, the Inline JavaScript plugin ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
James Moses posted to the SHARP-L list some interesting numbers from the Primary Research Group's new report on library and museum digitization projects. The first one was probably the most surprising to me: 60% of the funds for digitization projects come from the library's budget; in the U.S., the number ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Via the The Chronicle of Higher Education -- apparently every staff member at the University of Iowa, including faculty, will now learn how not to be a jerk. Great news! Obviously it's only ignorance of social norms that would lead a professor to offer higher grades to his female students ...
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