Archive for September, 2008

4:43

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Haile Gebrselassie runs a marathon in 2:03:59. That’s 4:43/mi. Holy moley. I can run one quarter mile at that pace. But that’s flat out sprinting, and I’m one and done. This guy runs 100 of them in a row.
Not much running here lately, unfortunately. No injuries, thankfully, but some serious issues sleeping. I think [...]

Fair if you are Elsevier’s wallet

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Proposed HR6845, “Fair Copyright in Research Works Act”, ain’t. Call Washington!

if (Web == OS)

Friday, September 12th, 2008

About Ted Dziuba’s “web != OS” rant, inspired by Google’s Chrome browser

YouTube captioning

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Lo-fi captions on YouTube!

WebCT safeassign

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Starting to think about WebCT accessibility, or lack thereof, I discovered its “safeassign” plagiarism detection has come to WIU.

List: forgotten

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Here’s what I forgot to bring to school today:

tie
non-school keys
lunch
bike lights
coffee
two books

At least I remembered to wear pants.

Legislation attacking open access

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Peter Suber points to possible legislation contra open access mandates