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• Justin Valdes

  
  We Love You So - Where The Wild Things Are - Spike Jonze — Authority: 561
  Impressive-looking art is often unimpeachable. Think of that massive topiary puppy by Jeff Koons or certain sculptures by Tom Friedman or anything by Dan Flavin: these things are beautiful and imposing and they do not look as though any human had ever touched them. On the other end of the scale lies ...
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• Scientists discover natural flu-fighting protein in human cells

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 645
  BOSTON, Mass. (Dec. 17, 2009) -- In findings that may lead to better ways to prevent and treat influenza and other viral infections, researchers report the discovery of a family of naturally occurring antiviral agents in human cells. Link:  ...
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• From Kivenen/Warmuth and EG to CW learning and Adaptive Regularization

  
  natural language processing blog — Authority: 91
  This post is a bit of a historical retrospective, because its only been recently that these things have aligned themselves in my head. The all goes back to Jyrki Kivenen and Manfred Warmuths paper on exponentiated gradient descent that dates back to STOC 1995. For those who havent read this paper, or havent read ...
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• Best of the Week Podcast- A Man, A Planet and Loads of Controversy

  
  http://www.weirdwarp.com — Authority: 409
  ENCORE While the Kepler spacecraft hunts for habitable planets beyond the solar system, we’ve let one of our own planets slip away! Find out why Pluto’s demotion to dwarf status created a public uproar as astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson reads us his hate mail. From third-graders!Also, how we might find ...
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• In a Federal Case Over ‘State Secrets,’ a Question of Whether Evidence Is Too Secret

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  At the heart of the case is the question of whether the government can block a trial by arguing that certain evidence would threaten national security.
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• Australian Federal Attorney Generals Seeking Public Feedback On R18+ Classification

  
  GayGamer.net — Authority: 562
  All of the hub-bub around banned/not-banned games and what "refused classification" actually means for games with content beyond what minors should be exposed to has started to attract the attention of higher eyes in the Australian government.At long last, Australias federal Attorney Generals have released the ...
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• Fine print of Westminster budget proposals threatens self-catering businesses

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 487
  As they say, the devil is in the detail. Mike Weir MP, the SNP’s Business and Enterprise spokesperson at Westminster has discovered a major sting in the fine print of the Labour Government’s Pre Budget Report (PBR - and note than PBR used to stand for Public Borrowing Requirement - same thing really).What Mr Weir ...
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• An R18+ Rating for Games Could Be Possible in Australia

  
  Geek, Actually — Authority: 120
  Finally some good news on the censorship issues in Australia. A discussion paper has been released by The Federal Attorney-General’s department (it was supposed to come out 6 months ago) that will allow the public to have their say on the issue of an R18+ rating for games. The discussion paper, which can be read ...
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• Green light for Australian internet filter plans

  
  TelcoNews.com - Telecom and VoIP Industry News — Authority: 142
  The Federal Government has detailed its plan to require internet service providers (ISPs) in Australia to block a list of banned material. When Parliament resumes next year the Government plans to introduce amendments that will require ISPs to block banned material on overseas servers. Broadband and Communications ...
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• Australian Government Consulting Public On Changes To Game Ratings [Australia]

  
  Kotaku — Authority: 810
  Yesterday, the Australian government released its long-awaited discussion paper on an adults-only rating for video games (or, as wed call it, R18+). Ive already sent in my contribution; any of you care to do the same? The paper has been released to canvas public opinion on whether Australias classification ...
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• Why we still need classification in the age of Google

  
  Cataloging Futures — Authority: 106
  Life has trumped blogging for me lately. Just thought you might be interested in whats at the top of my reading pile: a new post on the VocabControl blog titled "Google is not perfect." Perhaps I am starting to suffer from “deformation professionelle” , but I am constantly surprised by how often I am still ...
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• Public has say in R18+ classification for Australia

  
  Gamer Limit — Authority: 485
  If there has ever been a time for Australian gamers to punch the air in excitement, or flip the bird at Michael Atkinson , it is now. The Attorney-General’s Department has officially released a consultation reform paper entitled “An R18+ Classification for Computer Games – Public Consultation” Hit the ...
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• Aussies asked to voice opinion on R18+

  
  The Gadget News — Authority: 161
  Long-heralded public consultation process on whether Australia should introduce an adult rating for games commences; Federal Government releases discussion paper discussing pros and cons of the debate. It’s been a bad year for Australian gamers when it comes to censorship. Just last week, upcoming action game Aliens ...
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• Power to the masses! The Australian Government has released a discussion paper which briefly summarises the key arguments for and against an R 18+ classification for computer games, and is seeking input from the public.

  
  Topblank — Authority: 165
  Power to the masses! The Australian Government has released a discussion paper which briefly summarises the key arguments for and against an R 18+ classification for computer games, and is seeking input from the public.
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• Australian Attorney General offers insight into Aliens vs. Predator classification refusal

  
  Joystiq — Authority: 772
  Weve heard from Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson in the past on why he thinks certain games shouldnt be available to Australian consumers. And when he was asked recently by ABC why the upcoming Aliens vs. Predator was refused classification in his country (read: banned ), he echoed previous ...
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• Tree testing: a quick way to evaluate your IA

  
  Column Two — Authority: 469
  Dave Obrien has posted details on tree testing , a mechanism for evaluating a draft information architecture. To quote: As we started experimenting with “card-based classification” on paper, it became clear that, while the technique was simple, it was tedious to create the cards on paper, recruit participants, ...
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• Mind Map for organization chart

  
  Alone in the Archives — Authority: 103
  It seems like I keep coming up with uses for this FreeMind program. Now I’m working on an organization chart for archives that mirrors the colleges’ organization. Our archives was originally set up, low those many years ago, doing item cataloging. I’ve been slowly changing to putting incoming materials into ...
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• Health Statistics Quarterly 2009 (No.44)

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 144
  Title: Social inequalities in female mortality by region and be selected causes of death, England and Wales, 2001-03 Skinny: Fifth in a series of articles reporting mortality using the final version of the National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SEC). Reports on social inequalities in female ...
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• Why is college measured in “degrees”?

  
  The Ingenesist Project — Authority: 126
  The information that fuels the next economic paradigm will not be captured in the form of college degrees; rather, it will be captured in extremely detailed granularity of unique collections of knowledge assets in diverse combinations of persons that solve complex puzzles – and then share the solution with others.
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• Game Developer Wont Edit Aliens vs. Predator To Appease Austr...

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  Rose M. Welch alerts us to the news that game developer Rebellion has decided not to resubmit an edited version of its game Aliens vs. Predator after it was rejected by the Australian Classification Board for being too violent. The company stated that it agrees the game is not suitable for children: "We agree ...
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