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Jim Gray is missing…
… but he’s going to turn up soon, I am sure. “Coast Guard searches for missing Microsoft researcher”
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Interesting directions for UIs
Here’s an example where a physics engine is utilized in the management of documents. I don’t actually like the interface for day-to-day activities but I can see how useful ideas/technologies can be extracted and integrated in modern desktop/applications user interfaces. (YouTube video)
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WPF-based Netflix UI
Found this cool app for managing my Netflix queue (via Kostas’ blog). Nice!
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"Petition for guaranteed public access to publicly-funded research results"
I got the following email from the Public Library of Science and signed their petition. If you agree, please consider signing it too. Dear PLoS Letter Signers, We are writing to you because you signed the PLoS open letter some years ago urging scientific publishers to allow the research reports that have appeared in their…
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Antispam for pblog
I have been getting so many spam comments, I’ve decided to spend few minutes adding antispam support for pblog. I suspect that the spammers will manage to bypass the very simple protection I’ve built but it’ll do for now. Please let me know if you encounter any problems. If you don’t type the numbers in…
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Windows Live Academic Search and Word 2007
Yesterday, I was talking with Mike Buschman of Windows Live Academic Search and I set myself a challenge: I suggested to him that I could demonstrate the integration of scholarly publication search directly within Word 2007, all during the course of the presentation we were just about to attend (I had already seen the slides so I could code during…
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Open Repositories 2007
I arrived at San Antonio today for the Open Repositories 2007 conference (I am surprised they don’t have a unique URI for the 2007 conference site, at least not yet). Tony Hey will be giving the closing keynote on Friday. We are keen to engage with this community since we believe in the value of digital…
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URIs considered harmful?
How about that? Remember the discussions from months ago (“WS-Web” and “Names and Addresses – a different view”) about the identity of resources and their relationship to HTTP URIs? I just read this story about Netscape taking down the resource representation of the RSS 0.91 DTD Schema at the end of the http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.9.dtd URI. They brought it back…
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I am the GridMaster 🙂
Well, it had to happen at some point… a Grid game 🙂 I saved humanity from a volcano erruption, an eartquake, the avian flu, and I’ve even found aliens; all with the power of Grid computing!!! Via Dan.
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Open Access and the "social web" for physics
Paul Watson pointed me to the January 2007 issue of the “Physics world”. You’ll notice a number of articles related to open access and the impact of Web to scholary publication and the peer review process. It’s funny how not all of those articles are available 🙂 I found that “talking physics in the social…