No maps for these territories

check out the new open library site. That there’s some pretty web tech & design, although some questions could be raised about accessibility

1) I’m sitting outside in downtown Davis at a restaurant that serves up vegetarian crepes and wireless in about equal proportions. Yum! It’s sunny out (with that glorious California sun that seems slightly manufactured; nothing could be this clear, this brightly yellow, I think they ship it in from Hollywood myself) and coolish (pants, shoes, [...]

Apparently a physics preprint database at Stanford was the first website set up in the U.S.? So they claim, anyway. Still going strong and back full circle to high innovation as preprints/digital scholarly communication is on everyone’s mind.

Confessions of a science librarian Technologies for science libraries englib more?

I just went to look at the wikipedia page on Davis, California. There was vandalism at the bottom of the page, which I went to revert out of habit, but it caught me off-guard because what it said was: YOU ARE HERE!!!!!! Oddly enough, I am here. I had a brief moment of wondering if [...]

’cause I can’t keep up, especially without internet — trying is making my head hurt. 1) lots of wiki stuff going on; wikisym happened and I am sad I couldn’t go. Internet Librarian is finishing up today; I am lame for not going. Wikimania 2006 is gonna be in Boston. Rock. Go SJ go. 2) [...]

As an aside, I realize that last entry makes me sound relentlessly positive, which is not really the effect I want to be going for, because relentlessly positive people give me the creeps. I always think that they have some looming tragedy they’re trying to forget, or they’re on prozac, or something. I am neither [...]