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Library News & Notes —
August 29, 2008

Internet Sites of the Week

Cambridge: High on vacancies, short on small life sciences lab space
http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2008/08/18/focus (Shortened url)

Check out the library's high-tech tools
http://www.boston.com/business/technology (Shortened url)
(Source: ResourceShelf)

The dawn of intelligent machines
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7575605.stm

Fatal flaws found in terrorism database
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10023848-38 (Shortened url)

FeedMySearch
"Turn Google searches into useful RSS feeds"
http://feedmysearch.com
(Source: Internet Legal Research Weekly)

Five Reasons Why Airplane Internet Services Will Take Off
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main (Shortened url)
(Source: Google News Sci/Tech)

Four free wikis worth trying out
http://www.nytimes.com/idg/ (Shortened url)

Great .gov Web sites
http://www.gcn.com/cgi-bin/udt (Shortened url)
(Source: beSpacific)

How Apple could make e-books work
http://www.macworld.com/article (Shortened url)
(Source: Google News Sci/Tech)

Israel to Display the Dead Sea Scrolls on the Internet
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/middleeast (Shortened url)
(Source: Open Access News)

It's the End of Publishing as We Know It... but not the way you think
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26266090/
(Source: SLA Connections)

MIT trains computers to organize data like humans
http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2008/08/25 (Shortened url)

More products than ever can connect to the Net
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles (Shortened url)

myGreenElectronics
http://www.mygreenelectronics.org
(Source: Librarians' Internet Index)

Next Steps for E-Texts
http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/08/26/etextbooks

The road to Wikipedia
http://www.salon.com/books (Shortened url)

ScienceHack
http://sciencehack.com
(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)

The Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites
http://www.pcmag.com (Shortened url)
(Source: Internet Legal Research Weekly)

TR35
http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/
(Source: Boing Boing)

Universities Report Continued Decline in Real S&E R&D Funding in FY2007
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf08320/
(Source: Docuticker)

Wanderlust
GOOD maps out history's greatest journeys, from Magellan to Kerouac
http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/features/011/Wanderlust/
(Source: Boing Boing)

A Wise Man Once Said...
http://abstrusegoose.com/47
(Source: Pharyngula)

The World's 100 Most Powerful Women
http://www.forbes.com/2008/08/27/most-powerful- (Shortened url)
(Source: Harvard in the News)

The Year of the Political Blogger Has Arrived
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/ (Shortened url)

 

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Received August 23 - August 29, 2008