Tom Roper's Weblog

Selections: Goodwood and Musselburgh

Goodwood 220: Boogie Street
Musselburgh 315: Malapropism
Goodwood 325: Rebuttal

Pigeon Post

A racing pigeon has made his home with me; I've christened him Percy.
The Royal Pigeon Racing Association can't help trace his owner as his ring numbers seem to be in a non-standard format. He's very tame and has to be expelled from the house.

More MLA blogs

Some more MLA blogs:
Alane of OCLC
A report from Genevieve Gorse on the Krafty Librarian's blog
Jennifer Friedman

Prevailing publishing system is irrevocably broken

A defence of open access in today's BMJ from staff at PLoS Medicine
Yamey G, Gass, A
Prevailing publishing system is irrevocably broken
BMJ 2005;330:1211 (21 May)

New optimal Medline search strategies from McMaster

In today's BMJ:
Haynes RB, McKibbon KA, Wilczynski NL, Walter SD, Werre SR.
Optimal search strategies for retrieving scientifically strong studies of treatment from Medline: analytical survey.
BMJ  2005;330:1179 (21 May)

MLA and Bearded Pigs

By now the Bearded Pigs will be sleeping the sleep of the just after their triumphant MLA gig. I do hope there'll be a podcast.
More generally, I wonder who's doing MLA conference blogs this year? T Scott Plutchak managed to get going before the conference had even started. A quick Technorati search turned up the following:

Mohammad Al-Ubaydli

The Krafty Librarian who asks for volunteers to contribute from MLA

 

Bluebells

Some pictures of a visit with mother and brother to Arlington Bluebell walk, Monday 9 May 2005

Currently playing in iTunes

Currently playing in iTunes: Hobo by The Curst Sons

Turnkey b2b enterprise-level web-based tea management solution infrastructure

This, via Wired News, is simply marvellous: Teabuddy.com

More on WiFi at the British Library

There's details on Heather Brooke's FoI website of her campaign about WiFi charges at the British Library: Your Right To Know.