jonny dover

A woman had a gold Buddha statue with her and wanted to burn incense for it. She didn't want her incense to be shared with anyone else's Buddha in the shrine, so she put a funnel up to her statue's nose.

Her incense blackened its nose and made it ugly.

The more I reflect on my vocation--scholarly publishing--the more stunning I realize its ultimate conclusion is.

Our resources, in terms of data, are absolutely astonishing. Research, in some form, is taking place every single second somewhere in the world. Information is being produced at an unbelievable rate; experiments are being performed and refined and replicated nonstop.

A dope redesign, long overdue. Great work, NIH!

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/09/new-us-bill-proposes-oer-mand...

The ever-illuminating Peter Subers alerts us to a federal mandate for Open Educational Resources. Cool to see someone on that level call for it!

This comes after state-level resources like California's http://www.opensourcetext.org/ and Florida's http://www.theorangegrove.org/OpenTextbooks/open_textbooksFL.asp, as well as broader initiatives like http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/ and http://cnx.org/ that have been in the cooker stage for some time.

I guess I've reached that point in a young man's life when his blog gets a hit from a Google search for "giraffe carpet." I can't tell you how long my heart has yearned for this day.

This is how I approach the world when things hurt:

"During a tour of Germany in 1958, Marx, accompanied by his then-wife, Eden, his daughter, Melinda, Robert Dwan, and Dwan's daughter Judith, climbed a pile of rubble that marked the site of Adolf Hitler's bunker, the site of Hitler's death, and performed a two minute charleston.[6]"

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx

What an inspiration.

According to my dear friend, two of the biggest stressors of any couple are moving and a new job. Well, here I am. Of course, this same friend had those plus marriage, a wild ride my tooncy and I are also about to embark on.

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/software-installation-in-linux-is-di... is a pretty cute way of explaining my main problem with Windows. It's a bit much, but it presents the spirit of things. :)

Prior to buying my new eee pc, I thought I'd finally gotten the ol' Linux thing figured out. I liked having a desktop chock full of bells and whistles and visual effects and nautilus-integrated apps. I used Mint with the AWN dock and a truckload of Compiz Fusion effects on my enormous, relatively-powerful laptop, and it did every single thing I could think of for it to do.