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Library News & Notes
August 13, 2004

Internet Sites of the Week

AZoNano.com
This site is a searchable directory of nanotechnology and materials resources and news articles.
http://www.azonano.com/default.asp
(Source: the (Sci-Tech) Library Question)

Blogging for Business
How Jonathan Schwartz of Sun Microsystems and leaders of other organizations have discovered that blogging is a good way to reach customers and define what you're about rather than letting the press do it.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/
aug2004/tc2004089_3601_tc024.htm (See the Guardian for another view:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/weblogs/story/0,14024,1279463,00.html)

Boston Streets: Mapping Directory Data
A project of Tufts University's Digital Collections and Archives, this resource links together photographs, maps and street directories to illuminate about 150 years of Boston history.
http://dca.tufts.edu/features/bostonstreets/index.html
(Source: The Scout Report, August 13, 2004)

Crick Papers
Several papers of the late Francis Crick, including the 1953 DNA structure paper, are hosted on this Wellcome Trust site.
http://genome.wellcome.ac.uk/node30074.html

In Search of a Browser That Banishes Clutter
A New York Times article profiles user's experiences with the Mozilla and Opera web browsers, particularly the elimination of annoying pop-up windows.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/12/technology/circuits/12brow.html?pagewanted
=2&ei=5090&en=2e6b25eafd7f2db7&ex=1250049600&partner=rssuserland
(Source: beSpacific)

Nature RSS Feeds
Nature offers RSS feeds for Nature and its sibling journals. You can get the table-of-contents for each issue delivered to your newsreader.
http://npg.nature.com/npg/servlet/Content?data=xml/
02_newsfeed.xml&style=xml/02_newsfeed.xsl

Selective Plane Illumination Microscope (SPIM)
http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/ExternalInfo/stelzer/spim.html
Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory have devised a microscope that enables “scientists to study relatively large (2 to 3 millimeter) live organisms from many different angles, under real conditions and with minimal disruption to the specimen.”
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,64545,00.html
A paper detailing the group's observations of Drosophila embryos and the Medaka fish appeared in Science.
http://www.sciencemag.org.ezp1.harvard.edu/cgi/content/full/305/5686/1007
(Source: Wired News)

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Received August 7 - 13, 2004