Saturday, November 20, 2004
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Wiwa points out that I haven't published anything here since July.
I have posted a few drafts on e-government, as I'm still pottering along trying to do the disser on technical standards in e-government, and what they tell us about policy that might not be clearly stated anywhere in official policy statements.
Like, for example, the lists of standards in the last Technical Standards Catalogue of the UK e-GIF (government interoperability format) relating to smart cards- ostensibly for security and ease-of-use reasons, but the number of departments (especially in lcal government) reporting that they won't be operationally interoperable for the 2005 deadline might suggest to the cynical person that ID cards have more to do with bodging a cover up of the whole interoperability thing not working very well.
Back to that classic of conspiracy theories- its all due to fuck ups, not infallible masters of our destinies- not that that fact will fuck us up any less.
I have posted a few drafts on e-government, as I'm still pottering along trying to do the disser on technical standards in e-government, and what they tell us about policy that might not be clearly stated anywhere in official policy statements.
Like, for example, the lists of standards in the last Technical Standards Catalogue of the UK e-GIF (government interoperability format) relating to smart cards- ostensibly for security and ease-of-use reasons, but the number of departments (especially in lcal government) reporting that they won't be operationally interoperable for the 2005 deadline might suggest to the cynical person that ID cards have more to do with bodging a cover up of the whole interoperability thing not working very well.
Back to that classic of conspiracy theories- its all due to fuck ups, not infallible masters of our destinies- not that that fact will fuck us up any less.
Saturday, October 23, 2004
Sunday, October 03, 2004
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Thursday, July 08, 2004
Monday, July 05, 2004
The sacred site damage database is a place where you can report damage to stones, or whatever. Would have been useful a couple of hundred years ago when Wordsworth took his chisel to Henge.
Friday, July 02, 2004
Wednesday, June 30, 2004
wow - will the googly universe implode if i blog a link to a blogger page? lets see....
Blogger Knowledge
Blogger Knowledge
Government Gateway - Homepage
the place to register all your personal details so they can be held centrally and used by various government agencies.
the place to register all your personal details so they can be held centrally and used by various government agencies.
SOLACE is the representative body for senior strategic managers working in local government. The society promotes effective local government and provides professional development for its members.
At least, that's the self description from the site.
At least, that's the self description from the site.
Monday, June 28, 2004
LGOL-X schemas
"These schemas cover a number of transactions including joining a library, press enquiry, logging a complaint, tracking a complaint, change of address, deceased person and single person discount for Council Tax.They are used in conjuction with the LGOL-X transaction engine. Information collected and validated from a web form is then passed through middleware to a backend service conforming to the schemas. The backend service uses the XML to complete a local authority transaction. Each service that a local authority provides should have a schema Transaction definition. These schemas are updated versions of those published earlier in the year and are available for consultation until Friday, 2nd July. Comments should be sent to GovTalk"
"These schemas cover a number of transactions including joining a library, press enquiry, logging a complaint, tracking a complaint, change of address, deceased person and single person discount for Council Tax.They are used in conjuction with the LGOL-X transaction engine. Information collected and validated from a web form is then passed through middleware to a backend service conforming to the schemas. The backend service uses the XML to complete a local authority transaction. Each service that a local authority provides should have a schema Transaction definition. These schemas are updated versions of those published earlier in the year and are available for consultation until Friday, 2nd July. Comments should be sent to GovTalk"
UK GovTalk information on policies and standards for e-government. includes working grouyp minutes etc.
Friday, June 25, 2004
Stuff for Kat; Artifact: Fashion & Beauty loads of links to textile and costume sites from artifact, plus some less interesting stuff. There're also other subject areas shown in the left hand toolbar.
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Friday, June 11, 2004
Brian Martin's Information liberation pdf of the Freedom Press book/pamphlet subtitled 'Challenging the corruptions of information power'.
Tuesday, June 08, 2004
Directory of open access journals page for music. If you're not familiar with what DOAJ does, it lists freely available scholarly journals.
While you might not be too bothered about the scholasticism of a journal, or have quite justifiable doubts about the role of peer-review in reinforcing current academic thinking to the detriment of either new or non-conformist ideas and theories, the information you find in this type of source is considerably more likely to be reliable than your average search result from Google.
This is a page of music journals, currently with 12 listings, including journals covering 17th C music, ethnomusicology, electronic music, and a music theory journal.
And you don't have to buy access, or have access to a subscription via an organisation. Which is good.
Tuesday, June 01, 2004
Municipal Year Book has search facilities that let you look for municipal employees in England, Scotland, and Wales, by job function, council, or keyword.
So handy for finding out who's actually responsible for,maybe, planning, prior to cross checking against company records for directorships (say) if, for example, a suspicious deal has just gone through near where you live.
You could also cross check with council minutes, which are supposed to be publicly available.
Or you could just use it to find the name of the person in charge of the council tax department, or whatever.
So handy for finding out who's actually responsible for,maybe, planning, prior to cross checking against company records for directorships (say) if, for example, a suspicious deal has just gone through near where you live.
You could also cross check with council minutes, which are supposed to be publicly available.
Or you could just use it to find the name of the person in charge of the council tax department, or whatever.
Also from artifact, The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments has a few pages of images of instruments like gamelans, hand horns and a harpsichord, and the Incorporated Society of Musicians is a professional organisation for musicians in the UK.
Also found thanks to artifact, info4study is a site for students of architecture, that could also be handy for anyone looking at self build with a view to sustainability and other issues beyond building a box to live in.
From Duke University of North Carolina, the Duke Papyrus Archive presents information and images of over 1,000 papyri from ancient Egypt held at the University.
This is the UK mirror site.
Found via an artifact update email.
This is the UK mirror site.
Found via an artifact update email.
Thursday, May 27, 2004
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Pile of links for plants, all suppliers do UK native or naturalised plants. Most also based in Scotland. Barwinnock herb nursery - culinary herbs, medicinal plants
Poyntzfield Herb Nursery - A nursery with an emphasis on herbalism- has a few items of interest to anyone interest in ethnobotany
Buckland Plants - another online nursery based in Scotland. Do perennials, alpines, plus native and naturalised plants.
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Herbscents.co.uk Less tedious than you'd think from the name, although the site is a bit annoying, they do some good plants.
Burncoose - another online plant catalogue for a Scottish nursery selling native and naturalised plants.
Forward Nurseries Homepage native hedging and trees,cheap but no online purchase facilities. Still worth checking out for the prices alone.
Thursday, May 13, 2004
FreeFullText.com provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by ANYONE with Internet access for free (though some may require free registration). The issue(s) which are available for free are indicated for each title on the alphabetical periodical lists.
Lone Parents HelpDesk - One Parent Families Scotland Also haslots of references and links for general benefits info and advice.
Benefits and work goes beyond what you're entitled to and into who decides that kind of thing, plus training and updates for staying on top of the system. Fine stuff.
Laughing Hens do some nice yarn for knitting, quite expensive, though, and not that much really if you want non-animal, non-chemically dyed, organic stuff. Link here more for ideas from the site.
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Monday, May 10, 2004
Friday, April 23, 2004
Jo Wildings' blog from Iraq- stunning and moving stuff you won't get in the corporate media Wildfire: infodocs
General Iraq and anti war/militarism stuff- Voices in the Wilderness - Recent Updates
Other Iraq links from :: Schnews :: Issue 449; Empire Notes and War Profiteers
General Iraq and anti war/militarism stuff- Voices in the Wilderness - Recent Updates
Other Iraq links from :: Schnews :: Issue 449; Empire Notes and War Profiteers
Pile of short random posts, mostly just links, drafted at work over the last couple of weeks. robocop!
Saturday, April 03, 2004
Found at VALISblog; The Web Library has a big pile of freely available resources to bookmark along with Librarians' Index to the Internet and the like.
Trying to suss out how to get to NZ without flying; starting to check out stuff like How to plan & book a journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway
From Paul Verlander's favourite tipples in this month's FreePint Newsletter (themed on surveillance and skills); Centre for Corporate Accountability. Other useful h&s sources in Paul's tipples- take a look.
The best part about this month's free pint, though, is the tips article by Ian Watson on Intrusion on privacy by electronic surveillance and personal data gathering
The best part about this month's free pint, though, is the tips article by Ian Watson on Intrusion on privacy by electronic surveillance and personal data gathering
Thursday, March 18, 2004
In amongst some horrible shit at Paper Toys (like a thanksgiving turkey, fr instance) is the Sydney Opera House and Fallingwater, the Frank Lloyd Wright house.
Recommended by Vasyl Pawlowsky as one of his favourite tipples in FreePint Newsletter 156, WorldLII - World Legal Information Institute is a freely-available resource for international law
Wednesday, March 17, 2004
britfilms.com has comprehensive listings of films currently in production- loads of resources for film makers as well as for people who just like films. Definition of 'British film' is given onsite.
Interzone is an sf zine so well established ithat when it started you could only get it in print form on actual paper. Site has samples of the hard copy, subs details, and loads of links.
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts is an extensive listing of folklore and mythological stories. One of the reasons I like folklore and mythology is that you can get some insight into how other people think, or thought, about the world.
The stories people tell each other about how the world is, or how people are, help you see that the way you think just now isn't the only way to look at things. Some stories can offend us, like those on the Anti-Semitic Legends or Witchcraft Legends pages. But then, so should current folk tales like asylum seekers getting vast amounts of benefit. Or ones from the quite recent past, like the belief in widespread satanic ritual abuse (SRA).
The stories people tell each other about how the world is, or how people are, help you see that the way you think just now isn't the only way to look at things. Some stories can offend us, like those on the Anti-Semitic Legends or Witchcraft Legends pages. But then, so should current folk tales like asylum seekers getting vast amounts of benefit. Or ones from the quite recent past, like the belief in widespread satanic ritual abuse (SRA).
These examples are fairly obvious ones- we all feel that we wouldn't make the same mistakes as Fay Weldon did in some of her misjudged and ill-informed comments about Islam during the Satanic Verses furore, or Bea Campbell (down the page a bit) during the SRA scares. But these are woolly liberals, who are supposed to be on the side of the downtrodden and unfortunates. Maybe using the examples of quite rich people who make a living out of talking opinionated shite isn't the most ideal, but they were the first examples that popped into my head. Possibly the Bus Station Loonies had it right with that wondrous song Kill that Nazi (in my head). We all have short hand assumptions that stay in our heads because we haven't got rid of them, and it takes effort to look at the way you think. We just need to make sure that the assumptions we give head space to have a sound basis, and aren't repetitions of shite spewed by someone with a dodgy agenda -like monetary gain in the case of Fay and Bea, or the well dodgy agenda of the example given above talking rubbish about asylum seekers.
Questioning everything is exhausting. You can't do it every day all the time. Thats why we have short hand 'lumps' of thinking so we don't need to work everything out all the time. (Here's a collection of Evolutionary Theory and Memetics links- but be warned- it can be quite a reductionist and triumphalist subject. If you don't like what you find look for something else).
So going back to the whole mythology and folklore thing- it can be useful to get an idea of how other people think, to help look at the way you see the world yourself. Surrealism also helped undermine the idea that everything always had to be the way it was. One of the reasons I always had a problem with the Trots was that they were absolutely sure they already had everything worked out.
That never made sense to me. How can you have any idea what will work when we get rid of capitalism etc/make the world better, when our thinking is so tightly bound up with living in it day to day? At best we can only have an idea of what we'll do next (apart from getting rid of it, obviously). Strategic planning is useful and necessary, for things like making sure food gets grown, people don't go hungry or untreated if they're ill. But in terms of how a society would be run, we really don't know how it might work out long term. All we can really do is say that we would keep working on it and make sure its better than it is now. Once we don't have to deal with the daily bollocks we do now, we might get all kinds of amazing possibilities opening up that we can't conceive of just now. But we'd need to make sure that we don't ossify- and again there's me coming back to the maintenance of the head and thinking.
Bugger. That was quite a long witter with not many links. Now I've gone on justifying my interest in mythology and weird shit (think Forteana to science as being analogous to mythology to assumptive thought and repeat the rant above- I'll come back to Forteana, and empiricism over explaining-away-the-not-currently-understood-with-unscientific-bullshit later), another link that might be of interest is Internet Sacred Text Archive .
Monday, March 15, 2004
The Word Spy is quite useful for definitions of pointless new words and phrases. Like 'latte factor', 'wrap rage' , and other concepts that only have meaning for the vitally challenged.
The Bentley Collection is a searchable and browsable collection of photomicrographs of snowflakes- hundreds of 'em.
Above from LII - New This Week page of Librarians' Index to the Internet.
Other good stuff from LII this week-
BirdLife International - together for birds and people
A collection of Cesar Chavez resources at Cesar Chavez Day of Service and Learning, compiled by the State of California, so be warned.
ATSDR - ToxFAQs�: Mustard Gas spends a lot of time explaining why US citizens could not possibly be at risk from their government's stockpiles of the gas, since it's stored properly and the remaining stocks are going to be disposed of this year (honest) and only bad people would use it, like some of those swarthy foreigners, but you need to know about it, because if there was a cloud of the gas came settling over your school, (and it definitely wouldn't be one of our clouds of gas, but part of some evil alien plot to destabilise the US (which is the epitome of all human achievement)), you might want to know what minimal action you could take to try to reduce the bad things that would happen as a result.
Above from LII - New This Week page of Librarians' Index to the Internet.
Other good stuff from LII this week-
BirdLife International - together for birds and people
A collection of Cesar Chavez resources at Cesar Chavez Day of Service and Learning, compiled by the State of California, so be warned.
ATSDR - ToxFAQs�: Mustard Gas spends a lot of time explaining why US citizens could not possibly be at risk from their government's stockpiles of the gas, since it's stored properly and the remaining stocks are going to be disposed of this year (honest) and only bad people would use it, like some of those swarthy foreigners, but you need to know about it, because if there was a cloud of the gas came settling over your school, (and it definitely wouldn't be one of our clouds of gas, but part of some evil alien plot to destabilise the US (which is the epitome of all human achievement)), you might want to know what minimal action you could take to try to reduce the bad things that would happen as a result.
Err, was that incoherent enough to be realistic?
Also it says what to do if you're exposed to mustard gas. Like if you were Kurdish and being gassed by a US-supported dictator, fr instance.
The Japanese Volcano Research Centre has a load of stuff on volcano research, and World Wide Wolves is pretty much what you'd expect, too. World Wide Wolves is aimed at a young audience.
Rodent's Yawning Animals page also, weirdly enough, describes the site content. This one heads upped from Librarian In Black which has a lot of gadget reviews and the like.
Keeping Found Things Found- A Research Project of the Information School
at the University of Washington. I had the URL for this somewhere else, but lost it. Honestly I did- I'm not making this up just so that it looks like a good subject for research....
at the University of Washington. I had the URL for this somewhere else, but lost it. Honestly I did- I'm not making this up just so that it looks like a good subject for research....
Friday, March 12, 2004
While the metal section smells a bit of tokenism, and the existence of a techno section might make you suspicious, EC Brown: MP3 links archive has some good links to bits and pieces of interesting music. And some bad music.
Thursday, March 04, 2004
This photo essay from Mother Jones is included because my friends' son is wanting to join the army. Photos and biogs of US soldiers who went home the worse for wear. Brings the effects of war home to anyone who thinks only foreign people get hurt in these things. Found at disinformation- ignore the rancid diesel advertising.
Tuesday, March 02, 2004
Artifact has a big pile of urls for arty stuff including galleries and good film resources. Lots of critical stuff included. No link to The Ultimate Bad Taste Fan Site , which i just feel lets it down a bit.
Site for identifying sources of UK government funding, covers the following government departments;
Department for Education and Skills
Department of Health
Home Office
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Government Offices for the Regions
If you think you can stand the hassle of dealing with these people
(I'm speaking from a housing co-op point of view, rather than a library point of view, where you don't have a choice about this sort of thing),
give them a look. Its your money, after all- no reason not to blag some of it back again, before it gets spent on carpet and cake.
Department for Education and Skills
Department of Health
Home Office
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Government Offices for the Regions
If you think you can stand the hassle of dealing with these people
(I'm speaking from a housing co-op point of view, rather than a library point of view, where you don't have a choice about this sort of thing),
give them a look. Its your money, after all- no reason not to blag some of it back again, before it gets spent on carpet and cake.
One of the sites I check regularly, Internet Resources Newsletter: Issue 114, March 2004 is a pretty good UK resource with masses of resources on a wide range of subjects. This month has lots of building and architecture resources.
Slightly less than reliable, Facts about... is a collection of 6 pages on various subjects that could come in handy as examples of not-too reliable information- if you were taking people through analysing reliability in sources of information, for example.
Posted on 1st March at LISNews.com: Librarian and Information Science News
Posted on 1st March at LISNews.com: Librarian and Information Science News
Sunday, February 29, 2004
Trying to get my arse motivated, since i'm missing;
Bumsnogger / Red Stars Parade / Errata/ Bonesaw / Vomitus, at Dr. Drakes just now. Bonesaw kick arse more than somewhat. Try their AUBL page if there's still hassle with their official one.
My missing gigs is down to medication from the doc which means i'm knocked out by about 9pm. I don't like this very much. Apart from missing gigs it means i don't get to see folk very often, which is even more crap cos people are pretty groovy creatures, for the most part.
This is just me making excuses for being a crap mate and not doing my bit to keep minority venues going, of course. Lameass.the babies would say.
Anyway, been having a spoach through the following far from exhaustive stuff to try to get inspired to go blatting about, maybe take a bit of time off to go to gigs elsewhere and get the body clock adjusted to get its 10 hours minimum of sleep moved around to a more sociable kind of time, if only temporarily.
punkinscotland
Edinburgh Metal Scene
Metalprovider
Alternative Nation currently has the Dangerfields near the top of the homepage, now without Cormac, possibly the only person to table dance on the bar of old Drakes.
Bumsnogger / Red Stars Parade / Errata/ Bonesaw / Vomitus, at Dr. Drakes just now. Bonesaw kick arse more than somewhat. Try their AUBL page if there's still hassle with their official one.
My missing gigs is down to medication from the doc which means i'm knocked out by about 9pm. I don't like this very much. Apart from missing gigs it means i don't get to see folk very often, which is even more crap cos people are pretty groovy creatures, for the most part.
This is just me making excuses for being a crap mate and not doing my bit to keep minority venues going, of course. Lameass.the babies would say.
Anyway, been having a spoach through the following far from exhaustive stuff to try to get inspired to go blatting about, maybe take a bit of time off to go to gigs elsewhere and get the body clock adjusted to get its 10 hours minimum of sleep moved around to a more sociable kind of time, if only temporarily.
punkinscotland
Edinburgh Metal Scene
Metalprovider
Alternative Nation currently has the Dangerfields near the top of the homepage, now without Cormac, possibly the only person to table dance on the bar of old Drakes.
Saturday, February 28, 2004
Here's some of the archived email stuff- not a lot of narrative and description but I have managed to put them in broad subject groupings at least; heres the music stuff
eMusicTheory.com home
EarthEar Home Page- bit mincy, a lot of the stuff
Welcome to Sonic Arts
Folk Music - Academic Info- US folk music site- ignore the hideous sponsored links at the top.
European Free Improvisation home
OHM- The Gurus of Electronic Music
Internet Archive: Live Music Archive
New playable 'nanoguitar' promises circuit applications very small guitars
Radio-Locator- pretty much in its own category,
vaguely techie stuff;
Spambot Beware - Avoidance - HTML Tricks
PracticallyNetworked.com
DAILY ROTATIONtechie news aggregator
Another couple of RSS primers- first one from EEVL-RSS - A Primer for Publishers and Content Providers and this next one from weblogs compendium.
deregionaliser for DVD from Slysoft.
talk to god;
BigFAQ: god answers the big philosophical questions
find out what lying bastards are lying about today;
Spin of the Day
prwatch site
a few reference resources;
The Visual Thesaurus, a Dictionary of the English Language
OneLook Reverse Dictionary
Cornell University Library Windows on the Past
VoS - Voice of the Shuttle humanities stuff
everything you ever wanted to know about...
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Metadata Resources - Academic Info
resources for making and breaking things;
Textile Resources, UW Stout Library
FabricLink - For Learning About Fabrics, Apparel, and Clothing Care
Flint Hire and Supply Ltd., Ready Made Breakaways- for breaking over people's heads. Flints do lots of other prop stuff too.
recipes for your dog;
Yummy for Dogs: Yummy for Dogs: Vegan recipes for your dog to be honest,ifind this a bit odd,not that people want to do vegan bait for their dogs,its the cinnamon apple snaps and carrot muffins i find a bit, well, anthropomorphic.
and some hippy shite;
The Modern Antiquarian
Places of Peace and Power: The Sacred Site Pilgrimage of Martin Gray
The Stonehenge Project > Home
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts, page 1
eMusicTheory.com home
EarthEar Home Page- bit mincy, a lot of the stuff
Welcome to Sonic Arts
Folk Music - Academic Info- US folk music site- ignore the hideous sponsored links at the top.
European Free Improvisation home
OHM- The Gurus of Electronic Music
Internet Archive: Live Music Archive
New playable 'nanoguitar' promises circuit applications very small guitars
Radio-Locator- pretty much in its own category,
vaguely techie stuff;
Spambot Beware - Avoidance - HTML Tricks
PracticallyNetworked.com
DAILY ROTATIONtechie news aggregator
Another couple of RSS primers- first one from EEVL-RSS - A Primer for Publishers and Content Providers and this next one from weblogs compendium.
deregionaliser for DVD from Slysoft.
talk to god;
BigFAQ: god answers the big philosophical questions
find out what lying bastards are lying about today;
Spin of the Day
prwatch site
a few reference resources;
The Visual Thesaurus, a Dictionary of the English Language
OneLook Reverse Dictionary
Cornell University Library Windows on the Past
VoS - Voice of the Shuttle humanities stuff
everything you ever wanted to know about...
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Metadata Resources - Academic Info
resources for making and breaking things;
Textile Resources, UW Stout Library
FabricLink - For Learning About Fabrics, Apparel, and Clothing Care
Flint Hire and Supply Ltd., Ready Made Breakaways- for breaking over people's heads. Flints do lots of other prop stuff too.
recipes for your dog;
Yummy for Dogs: Yummy for Dogs: Vegan recipes for your dog to be honest,ifind this a bit odd,not that people want to do vegan bait for their dogs,its the cinnamon apple snaps and carrot muffins i find a bit, well, anthropomorphic.
and some hippy shite;
The Modern Antiquarian
Places of Peace and Power: The Sacred Site Pilgrimage of Martin Gray
The Stonehenge Project > Home
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts, page 1
Its been quite snowy the last few days, so I've been catching up on all the drafts that have been posted quickly.
Before I started blogging,I used to email myself useful URLs, partly because of hardware problems that meant bookmarks didn't transfer to my account when I moved between desks, but also so I could find things again when I got home.I'msure lots of people do this. I always meant to put them all together into html (maybe even put an sql/php thing behind it for searchability, use of synonyms, etc), but I'm way too lazy.
The only reason I manage to keep this together is the blogger button on the google toolbar...
But since the road is blocked, and the phone works again, I'm going to try to blog some of the old emailed things to make them more useful, if only to myself, who forgot to put subject lines in most of the messages. The price you pay for indolence.
I'll try to put them in some kind of subject order.
Before I started blogging,I used to email myself useful URLs, partly because of hardware problems that meant bookmarks didn't transfer to my account when I moved between desks, but also so I could find things again when I got home.I'msure lots of people do this. I always meant to put them all together into html (maybe even put an sql/php thing behind it for searchability, use of synonyms, etc), but I'm way too lazy.
The only reason I manage to keep this together is the blogger button on the google toolbar...
But since the road is blocked, and the phone works again, I'm going to try to blog some of the old emailed things to make them more useful, if only to myself, who forgot to put subject lines in most of the messages. The price you pay for indolence.
I'll try to put them in some kind of subject order.
FARNE is a resource for Northumbrian music, funded by the New Opportunities Fund, and organised by Gateshead Council (the folk who do a lot of library things without much money).
A resource to use when checking out all the yacky things they use to make houses and what can be used instead; Green Building Press also has stuff on how to make houses so they're cheaper and more efficient to run. All the things you'd expect really.
The site of Transparency Internationalhas country listings for bribery and corruption in various government and government-funded bodies, plus anyone else who might be able to give punters grief.
More useful than UK Online for finding the govenment department responsible for whatever-the Tagishsite is kept together by the jolly TAG folk who used to do a lot of robotics and build nifty PCs, but now also do things that almost make them resemble librarians. A useful site by really nice people.
World Wide Wounds - partly because its useful from a medical informatics point of view, but mainly cos its just a fuckin good name....
Academic work on the treaty of Waitangi, where the Maori folk got rippped off more than somewhat.The Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History:
Excellent!
theThe Surrealist Compliment Generatorturned up again- that is, it was lost to me, but maybe not to itself.
theThe Surrealist Compliment Generatorturned up again- that is, it was lost to me, but maybe not to itself.
Saturday, January 24, 2004
US, uses LCSH (Library of Congress Subject headings), gives a pile of bibliographic records on the subjects listed. Index of Science Tracer Bullets Online. Listed by title (Science Tracer Bullet - Science Reference Services, Library of Congress) Found the name of it a bit suspect, though. Why do you need to call them tracer bullets, for fucks sake?
Cheers to Librarians' Index to the Internet for this one.
Friday, January 16, 2004
"IncyWincy searches 46 million pages by crawling the 4 million pages found in the Open Directory Project. IncyWincy also delves deep into the Invisible Web with its unique "Universal Search Engine" that searches automatically into 1 million web search portals"
apparently. It also searches cached pages, which can be handy.
apparently. It also searches cached pages, which can be handy.
Creative Commonsis a load of groovy stuff along the lines of asserting the right to be identified as the creator of a thing, without stopping people being able to get hold of it. Kind of. Have a look. Links to content with various types of rights asserted, some of which you can sample and play with.
Anthropology Collection Database was found via Neat New Stuff on the Net for january 16th, as was this bar code art site, this site of US forestry images and Nick's Mathematical Puzzles .
Knowledge Hound, The How-To Hunter! (there's some good stuff in the science category) was listed in Marylaine's 9th January list.
Should also include Free Range Librarian: Getting Started with RSS cos i'm an idiot. LISFeeds.com Librarian RSS Feeds goes with the above for library shit.
While I'm going through me bookmarks, don't think i've listed Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things yet, which is somewhat remiss.
A directory of cached pages is Ay-Up.com, via which was found All Movie Guide which indexes films, directors, actors, and general filmic stuff, by category, so the 'more like this' kind if search is easy. Nice.
A couple of nice ones from LII - New This Week this week;
GODCHECKER : Your Guide To The Gods. Mythology with a twist! Some of the artwork is a bit Koehnline-a-like, but wanting to be like James Koehnline is maybe nae a bad thing. Haven't really had an extensive look through to check it for mythologic accuracy, but thats not really what you'd go there for.
Home Wine 101 has some homebrew recipes. US site, again waiting to be checked out properly- you know what these people are like with their weird palates and ways of measuring things.
Hidden blogger tools from google, listed in Bates Information Service
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