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Good Day so Far!

I'm not sure where this blog post is doing to wonder/wander as I'm sitting here with my third rum&coke of the day and it's not even six yet. I am very relaxed, though. This can't be a bad thing, really.

Started a fire about 2 and fixed Van and I a nice pot of white bean and ham soup, with cheese and bread and a apple and berry pie for desert. The soup and pie cooked over said fire; the bread wasn't done when we got hungry so we can have that tomorrow. This is sorta Van's birthday weekend; well, not sorta, it is. I am hanging out with him because I know it's a hard one, turning 60 on Monday. He did not want to go to the Shire moot, though. Just wanted a day around the house. He's just a bit freaked out he made it this far! Thus I bought him lots of beer. hehe. Beer is soothing. Foamy. mmmm.

Tomorrow is a fighting afternoon. Then I'm coming home to eat a meal with him, Isaiah and Emily. Steaks, his favorite. Monday, the actual birthday, is rapier fighting so whatever meal will be light and cooked by people we don't know.

All good.

I'm in a pensive mood. And, laughing at self, I just deleted the most depressingly pity-party post I think I ever pounded out on this keyboard. Shesh! Lighten up, Me! And go take a nap.

www.myspace.com/palastorchester

Link: www.myspace.com/palastorchester.

This is great music - try the "Oops, I did it again" song.

The Internet gives birth to an 'official' online library

Link: The Internet gives birth to an 'official' online library.

We've got a lot of searching tools available to us, and some of us are pretty good at winding our way through to find what we want out there in the information wilderness. So now we got an official library.

The IA Web site explains, "Libraries exist to preserve society's cultural artifacts and to provide access to them. If libraries are to continue to foster education and scholarship in this era of digital technology, it's essential for them to extend those functions into the digital world. Without cultural artifacts, civilization has no memory and no mechanism to learn from its successes and failures." From vintage newsreels to recently uploaded V-logs, there's a good chance they are stored somewhere in the Internet Archive. Grateful Deadheads can follow the band in cyberspace from the '60s through the '90s in a series of live concerts preserved in their entirety. Or fans can download a recording of Allen Ginsberg teaching a poetry class, hear a Groucho Marx radio program or watch a move or classic cartoon.

The New Metrics of Scholarly Authority

Link: The Chronicle: 6/15/2007: The New Metrics of Scholarly Authority.

I've not taken the time to really comprehend Web 2.0 much past the social networking tools and opportunities, although it is really fascinating just by itself. This article focuses on the Authority 2.0 of the information abundance age and initially discusses how most of us are lagging behind. But then it rapidly turns to Web 3.0 and the matrices necessary to be Authority-recognizable in the evolving information abundance age: 

"In the very near future, if we're talking about a universe of hundreds of billions of documents, there will routinely be thousands, if not tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of documents that are very similar to any new document published on the Web. If you are writing a scholarly article about the trope of smallpox in Shakespearean drama, how do you ensure you'll be read? By competing in computability."

Read the article to get this author's list of values for your inclusion in the most popular algorithms.

MySpace Videos: Women in Art by EggMan

Link: MySpace Videos: Women in Art by EggMan.

This is lovely. Be sure the sound is on.

Everything is going well. I know...I need to update. Sorry!!