links for 2009-04-05

  • "It seems that the Dollhouse's business runs on… BeOS."
  • "KIRBY KRACKLE is “The World’s First Comic Book Rock Band.” Their debut album touches on subjects like friendship, acceptance, revenge and love, all filtered through a lens of pop culture imagery. Call it Geek Rock, Nerd-core, or whatever you want…KIRBY KRACKLE is music for YOU."
    (tags: music nerdcore)
  • (tags: music nerdcore)
  • "A SECRET SOCIETY DEVOTED TO EXPOSING VAMPIRES AND FINDING THE HOLY GRAIL. THESE INSTRUCTION VIDEOS INITIATE THE VIEWER INTO THEIR PROGRAM. DISCOVER THE SECRET CONNECTION BETWEEN HAMLET, VAMPIRES AND THE HIDDEN CODE IN THE ORIGINAL SHAKESPEAREAN MANUSCRIPTS."
  • "Julian Marsh (Hoffman) is an out of work ladies man who lands a job directing a bizarre adaption of Hamlet. After casting his best friend (Lemche) and his ex-girlfriend (Aoki) in the show, Julian finds himself in the middle of a two thousand year old conspiracy that explains the connection between Shakespeare, the Holy Grail and some seriously sexy vampires. It turns out that the play was actually written by a master vampire named Theo Horace (Ventimiglia) and it's up to Julian to recover the Grail in order to reverse the vampire's curse… If only being undead wasn't so much God-damned fun!"
  • "Kaimin editor Bill Oram maintained that the column is the kind of thing that college students want to read.

    'I think most of them probably have sex or wish they were having sex,' Oram said."

    "'We’ll stop talking casually about sex when students stop having sex casually,' he said. 'We’ll stop talking about sex in a fun way when sex stops being fun.'"

  • "Blacklight is an open source OPAC (online public access catalog). That means libraries (or anyone else) can use it to allow people to search and browse their collections online. Blacklight uses Solr to index and search, and it has a highly configurable Ruby on Rails front-end. Currently, Blacklight can index, search, and provide faceted browsing for MaRC records and several kinds of XML documents, including TEI, EAD, and GDMS. Blacklight was developed at the University of Virginia Library and is made public under an Apache 2.0 license."
  • "Students for Free Culture is an international chapter-based student organization that promotes the public interest in intellectual property and information & communications technology policy."
  • "Open Access is a growing international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. It encourages the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, everywhere, for the advancement and enjoyment of science and society.

    Open Access is the principle that all research should be freely accessible online, immediately after publication, and it’s gaining ever more momentum around the world as research funders and policy makers throw their weight behind it.

    The Open Access philosophy was firmly articulated in 2002, when the Budapest Open Access Initiative was introduced. It quickly took root in the scientific and medical communities because it offered an alternative route to research literature that was frequently closed off behind costly subscription barriers."

  • "SPARC’s Author Rights brochure identifies the rights faculty have as copyright holders and encourages you to retain the rights you need to ensure the broadest practical access to your articles. It explains how to use the SPARC Author Addendum and even gives tips on what to do if the publisher rejects the Addendum."
  • "Over 700 tiki bars, Polynesian restaurants
    and other sites of interest
    to the midcentury Polynesian Pop enthusiast."