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Library News & Notes —
December 16, 2005

Notes

Garrett will be out of the office in the afternoon on Monday, December 19.

Internet Sites of the Week

The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005
A review of many different types of web applications including social bookmarking, online to-do lists, word processing and more.
http://web2.wsj2.com/the_best_web_20_software_of_2005.htm

Birds of North America Online
The Harvard Libraries provide access to this compilation of data on over seven hundred species of birds.
http://bna.birds.cornell.edu.ezp1.harvard.edu/BNA/

blog.bioethics.net
A blog on social issues of science by the editors of the American Journal of Bioethics, this site has extensive coverage of the stem cell controversy.
http://blog.bioethics.net/
(Source: Science)

I Like to Watch
A review of different video blogs.
http://bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/05145823.asp
(Source: Steve Garfield)

Internet Encyclopaedias Go Head to Head
Nature reviews Wikipedia and Britannica, and finds that the former measures up reasonably well with entries about science.
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html


Nascent
Nature has launched another blog, this one on web science and technology.
http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/

The Year in Ideas
The New York Times magazine has a “digest of the most noteworthy ideas of the past 12 months,” covering, among other things, politics, literature, business, and innovation.
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2005/12/11/magazine/index.html

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Received December 3 - 16, 2005