If you enjoy the kind of non-partisan research on politics that Factcheck.org provides, you might want to take a good look at a new competitor, Politifact.com. They have a top notch research staff and a very accessible style of presentation. We’ll see how they evolve over time. In the mean time I’ll post the link…
In the interest of making genuine news available to anyone who wants it, I came across this article a short time ago and have decided to link it here. It’s not so much that I believe every word that Putin says, so much as I despise censorship and I haven’t seen this stuff anywhere locally.…
This comes from Bruce Mehlman and Larry Irving writing for the Sacramento Bee: The exponential explosion of digital content on the Internet is striking. YouTube.com alone consumes as much bandwidth today as the entire Internet consumed in 2000. Users upload 65,000 new videos every day and download 100 million files daily, a 1,000 percent increase…
This made it into today’s Metro (the free NYC newspaper, not the library group) as well as theglobeandmail.com: Vienna’s public library raises cash with erotica hotline Associated Press May 8, 2007 at 6:12 AM EDT VIENNA — This isn’t the typical whispering you might expect to hear at a library. Vienna’s City Hall has launched…
Washington, DC — Despite promises to consult with Congress before proceeding with dismantlement of its library system, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered its libraries to “disperse or dispose of their…contents,” according to agency directives released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The move to eliminate physical collections comes as EPA’s own…
The Ladies Home Journal from December 1900, which contained a fascinating article by John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years”. For the complete story, click here. Two personal favorites: Prediction #4: There Will Be No Street Cars in Our Large Cities. All hurry traffic will be below or high above…
"Queens‘ Biggest Cake" Marks the Occasion; Time Capsule to Be Buried QUEENS VILLAGE, NY, April 17, 2007–Library Director Thomas W. Galante, and a host of government and community well-wishers joined to cut Queens‘ Biggest Anniversary Cake in honor of Queens Library’s 100th anniversary of incorporation. The event was held at Antun’s in Queens Village. "Queens Library…
I think this fits in the "Not Good For Anybody" Department of government policies and procedures: AP: 1M Archived Pages Removed Post-9/11By Frank Bass and Randy Herschaft, Associated Press More than 1 million pages of historical government documents — a stack taller than the U.S. Capitol — have been removed from public view since…
Busy, busy, busy . . . I’m slowly and painfully working my way through Microsoft Access and SQL, and have the basic skill of modifying queries and building reports, but there’s a long way to go. The most immediate trick was to nudge one of the existing queries (the Bib-level "s" item data) to produce…
I’m out for most of this week, but something that did catch my eye was an article the Matt Taibbi wrote for Rolling Stone (located by way of Alternet.org) on the subject of the White House’s 2008 budget proposal. His main point is maybe it serves us right if we’re footing to bill for egregious…