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Library News & Notes —
November 10, 2006

Internet Sites of the Week

Emerging Frontiers in the Physical Sciences
The latest issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A contains a number of papers on trends in physics and mathematics.
http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/link.asp?id=X7408X258681

The list of 13 Internet enemies
From Reporters Without Borders comes this compilation of internet-unfriendly countries.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=19603
(Source: BBC News)

mypictr
A service that allows you to resize photos to fit on any site.
http://mypictr.com/
(Source: Library Stuff)

Shedding Light on Biomoleule Conformational Dynamics Using Fluorescence Measurements of Trapped Ions
The latest paper from Rowland's Trapped Ions Group.
http://pubs.acs.org.ezp1.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/jpcafh/
asap/abs/jp064933e.html

The Wikipedia Knowledge Dump
“Knowledge's last chance,” says this blog that chronicles material rejected from Wikipedia.
http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/
(Source: Boing Boing)

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Received October 28 - November 10, 2006