No maps for these territories

Those of you with strong CS backgrounds might consider working with OpenWetWare. Woo! If that does not suit, perhaps you’d rather work to “Help Implement Online Fine-Art Library, MuseumMonteCarlo, Monte Carlo, The Principality of Monaco”? One journey per month to Monaco is required.

One of today’s reference questions, which I was unable to answer: “Hi! I’d like the emissivity of Germanium, please. I’m looking for something in the 100-micron wavelength range.” To my consolation (I think), the chemistry librarian couldn’t help either. To my disconcertion, though none of the chemistry dictionaries I checked — none! — had a [...]

I am not the first person, or the first woman, in my family to go to college (though I am, I believe, the first woman on either side of my family with a master’s degree). But I am, I realized this evening with a sudden sharp start of awareness, the first person in my immediate [...]

There are at least five levels, or modes, of getting things done that I cycle through. The first level are things that are both simple in concept and execution: getting through daily life. Wash the dishes. Do laundry. Pay bills. Go to work. At work, a handful of routine tasks: buying books, answering email, answering [...]

The way the Internet ought to work heh. via

* http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E2%9A%9B&redirect=no * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E2%9A%92&redirect=no * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E2%9A%97&redirect=no * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E2%9C%90&redirect=no And my favorite: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E2%9A%A1&redirect=no I really want to change that last one to redirect to Zeus or something. more here. Edit: when viewed on another computer without appropriate font support, such as my xp machine at work, these display as question marks; which makes them not nearly [...]