Thursday, May 15, 2003

Lunar Eclipse There will be a lunar eclipse tonight.  If the clouds go away, you should be able to watch it beginning around 10:05 p.m.  You can find out more about the eclispe at Space.com 4:35:59 PM    comments? [] HIPAA Resource Website. From the HHS Office on Civil Rights, this comprehensive resource, Medical Privacy - National Standards to Protect the Privacy of... [beSpacific] 1:27:30 PM    comments? []

Thursday, April 03, 2003

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). This searchable site offers links to fact sheets, key references (online articles and case studies), education and training, Internet resources, and official remarks and reports concerning SARS. Includes information about the modes of transmission, organism, and syndrome (symptoms) for SARS and other infections. From the Center for the Study of Emerging Infections at Saint Louis University School of Public Health, Missouri. [Librarian's Index to the Internet] 11:06:55 AM    comments? []

Wednesday, March 26, 2003

If you would like to learn more about Iraq, the New York Times has put together a reading list: Iraq: A Reading List [New York Times: Books] You can use the login and password on the left to register at their website. If you'd like to see which libraries have which books - check the SWAN Catalog     3:31:28 PM    comments? []

Tuesday, March 25, 2003

WSJ on warblogs of journos, military enlistees (and shutdown of kevinsites.net). Today's Wall Street Journal features an article on war, weblogs, disinformation -- and the suspension of kevinsites.net. THE DAY ALLIED FORCES began their invasion of Iraq, a Navy lieutenant based in the Gulf posted some news on his personal Web site: "Saddam fired a couple of those Scuds that he doesn't have at me." On another personal Web site someone claiming to be a Baghdad resident wrote that "there are more Ba'ath people in the streets and they have more weapons." Kevin Mickey, a Navy lieutenant commander at Camp Patriot, Kuwait, noted on his site that "we had a minor dust storm yesterday" and said the camp's missile alarms were going off repeatedly. On top of the 500 reporters traveling with the military and the three cable-TV news channels beaming 24-hour coverage there's a new element in this war: unfiltered eyewitness accounts online. Soldiers and citizens in the war zone are publishing in real time on their own Web sites. Families are posting on the Web the e-mails sent home by relatives in the service. And free-lance reporters -- not subject to restrictions by the Pentagon or large media outlets -- are writing online for a new world-wide audience. In all, the glut of information from the Gulf -- from the important to the trivial -- is creating a dizzying panoply of detail, as well as half-truths. Link to WSJ story via Yahoo, Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 2:52:16 PM    comments? []

Saturday, March 22, 2003

CyberJournalist.net: Iraq Conflict Coverage Weblog http://www.cyberjournalist.net/features/iraqcoverage.html Includes blogs from "embedded" journalists (even MTV has a correspondent there!), news sites' complete coverage pages, interactive graphics and stories, and more. Among the recent additions: a 3-D map of Iraq, and Jerusalem Post's audio reports from the field. From Marylaine's Neat New Stuff on the Net 12:01:35 PM    comments? []

Wednesday, March 12, 2003

You can find Gov. Blagojevich's State of the State address at this link: http://www.illinois.gov/gov/stateofstate.cfm   Thanks to Laura Johnson from SLS for the information 4:55:01 PM    comments? []   President Signed "Do Not Call" Registry Bill. H.R. 395, The Do-Not-Call Implementation Act, 117 Stat. 557; 2 pages, "To authorize the Federal Trade Commission to collect fees... [beSpacific] 1:32:38 PM    comments? []

Thursday, February 20, 2003

Credit card database hacked. A computer hacker gains access to more than 5 million Visa and Mastercard credit card accounts in the US. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] 11:45:02 AM    comments? []

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