That' is why it is always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it is all - Is Truth Beauty and Is Beauty Truth, and - Does A Falling Tree in the Forest Make A Sound if There's No one There to Hear It, and - then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, Incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.
-The many and varied advantages of philosophy, Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

Internet I blog, therefore I am

Articles are published and news reports are broadcast around the clock, but the words of the press are quickly outnumbered online. Weblogs or "blogs" are a rising force, filling PC screens with a deluge of commentary direct from diary-writing readers and viewers.
· Log On & QuestiOn [SMH 8 November 2002]

Who needs a pretty website anyway? KR's are making money, what more do you need? I am Rich

Libraries and Archives From Library clippings to clickings . . .

My first professional job in Australia at the NSW parliamentary Library involved cutting newspaper articles and cataloguing them under over 2000 subjects heading. It's not often newspaper libraries get mentioned in the news or otherwise. So this story, celebrating the newspaper's library's history, is a big deal. Nice story about some very enterprising researchers.
· Cutters and Diggers [A Star is Born]

Lets Walk Through Oldies but Goodies

Just as the arts give a flavor which is important to the personality of a city, People need old articles. Despite the common wisdom that most searchers are seeking recent stories. This story in Library Journal discusses the success of older archive databases.
· Past is able to discern hype, spin, bias, misinformation, disinformation, fraud, and lies . [Library Journal]

Come in, come inside an organization that helps newspapers in the area with CAR workshops and archiving. Fund for Investigative Reporting. Now open your eyes shut wide and Marketwatch colourful listing corporate misdoings Scandal Sheet (sic). While you are deep inside the sheet (sic) czech out how lawyers strike gold mining government databases. Meanwhile you also pick up Good research hints. If you are drowning in too much information catch political waves and tides with the real pros. Ohhhkay, you cannot walk away from this site, but you can fall in love with the story of Dvorak in Amerika.

Literature Pro or Amateur, You can be whatever you want to be

Legends about the Hindu gods, like the myths of the Olympians, permutate multiplying selves, gender switches and phantom likenesses: transformations of the self depend on an idea of souls migrating from one shape or species to another.
· Wake Me Up on Judgment Day [Guardian Angel]

Tax Add it up: half your income goes to tax

Professor Bob Deutsch of the University of NSW's ATAX program said he was stunned when he saw the list of direct and indirect taxes compiled by The Sun-Herald. I have never seen them added together like that. It is staggering.
· The Price of Civilisation [SMH 9 November 2002]

Bear in mind that the Italian Chamber of Commerce overwhelmingly rejected a proposed 25% pornography tax.
· The Price of the Oldest Profession [Ananova]

She thinks her taste in wearing see-through-dresses is educated, when it is only aroused to notice what others like.