Via Terry Belanger on SHARP-L: Order a copy of the University of Virginia Rare Book School catalog of videotapes and DVDs.
Via Lynne Connolly on C18-L: BBC Radio 4 discussion of “The Sublime.”
Via email correspondence: Harvard University’s H20 discussion environment.
As I’m doing a little bibliography building, I’m thinking that it would be nice if library catalogues could incorporate some of the functions of Amazon.com. For example, the “Customers who shopped for X also shopped for Y” feature demonstrates connections between books that otherwise might go unmarked by the usual uses of metadata. In general, being able to track user behavior and share it with other users (while protecting the privacy of individuals) would lead to a variety of useful functions. It would also be great if you could build a wish list in order to make suggestions for books the library should purchase, and to help the catalogue make recommendations to you and notify you when new books of interest to you arrive.
Here is a question asked in the face of way too many Google hits: if I want to create an online, collaboratively built, bibliographic database (mySQL and PHP), do I have to come up with the schema myself, or are there something like “plug-and-play” templates out there much in the way that there are for CSS and HTML?
…to make the cover of Wired magazine?
I’ve subscribed for a few years now, and when the current issue came, L saw the cover and pointed out that the only women we’ve seen on the cover in the past several issues haven’t exactly been known for their accomplishments in the fields of technology:
You have to go all the way back to 1996 to find a cover story on Sherry Turkle, and before that to 1994 for one on Laurie Anderson. Other than these two cover stories, there are none on women in technology.
See for youself. Check out the Wired archive of covers. Pretty shameful, no?
It’s not like there aren’t enough candidates. (Thanks to Caterina Fake on misbehaving.net for the link.)
How hard should it be to figure out how to transfer MP3s from your Apple Powerbook to your non-iPod MP3 player? Apple has a reputation for intuitive user interfaces, and yet I cannot for the life of me determine how to get the songs off of the hard drive onto this Rio Cali. The computer recognizes the player, and it’s listed in the “Source List” in iTunes. And yet… how do you get this stuff over here onto that thing over there?
Does anyone know?
Update: This does not help. The songs will not drag and drop.