Defense and Links
In this issue: dissertation defense
Web site recommendations: IT/misc
I defended my dissertation last Thursday. Pictures from a wonderful party that evening are available here: http://www.eszter.com/photos/defenseparty I had several pages of acknowledgements in my dissertation because I was fortunate to have numerous remarkable people and institutions support me in this endeavor over the past few years. Thanks go out to all of them! Many of the individuals are subscribers to this list, to you I say THANK YOU!
And now onto our regular programming.
Peep Research - A study of small fluffy creatures and library usage (shows some resemblance to my dissertation work:)
http://www.millikin.edu/staley/fluff/peep_research.html
Conference CFP: The Global and the Local in Mobile Communication
http://www.fil.hu/mobil/2004/
Cell Users Can Keep Numbers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26146-2003Jun6.html
Graph: Stagnation of the Public Domain
http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/10/publicdomainpostcard.php
Bloggers across the world
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2992587.stm
The MP3 Economy: How labels and artists divvy up your MP3 dollar
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,49472,00.html
Timeline of copyright laws in the US
http://arl.cni.org/info/frn/copy/timeline.html
Girls Teach Teen Cyber Gab to FBI Agents Md. Students Help Catch Pedophiles On the Internet
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10052-2003Jun3.html
National Do-not-call list (FTC sponsored) starts this summer!
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/business/yourmoney/30PDIG.html
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National Do Not Call Registry
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/donotcall/
Jewish Studies, an Internet Journal
http://www.biu.ac.il/JS/JSIJ/
Stores Fight Shoplifting With Private Security
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/17/nyregion/17MACY.html
Do the Democrats Have a Prayer? To win in ‘04 the next nominee will need to get religion
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0306.sullivan.html
Area Council Ousts Openly Gay Scout
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/6067592.htm
American Homosexuals Looking to Canada as Wedding Destination
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2003/06/13/110644-cp.html
Gay Kiss: Business as Usual
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/arts/television/22RICH.html
Online Museum of Long Island Rail Road and Photo Gallery
http://arrts-arrchives.com/
The difference between “will” and “shall” in English
http://grammar.englishclub.com/verbs-modals_shall-will.htm
Summertime Favorites - readings for kids kindergarten through high school
http://www.neh.gov/projects/summertimefavorites.html
1000 biosciences images by category and searchable
http://bio.ltsn.ac.uk/imagebank/
“Science behind the news” - explaining scientific phenomena
http://whyfiles.org
Homeland Security Self-Examination 
http://www.funnytimes.com/lessercolumns/200306RL.html
Today’s quote:
“Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.” — Katherine Whitehorn