Yesterday, Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) unanimously voted a motion on open access policy. FAS Faculty members now grant to the university a non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to distribute their scholarly articles, provided it is for non commercial uses.

Just like our computer's QWERTY keyboards (they were designed to be inefficient so typewriter keys wouldn't stick, yet we use them today on devices that will never, ever stick), we're using thinking that's anywhere from 100 to 1,000 years old (and more) to determine our staffing and working decisions.

All online poker lovers have something to rejoice now. The most popular video game designer, Mr. Richard Garriott, who is also called the Lord British, has come up with a new idea that will bring a lot of fun to online poker fans. He plans to do what he always does -- something extraordinary, something that others cannot think before him and something that he always gave to the online gamers. He now plans starting a poker gaming social networking site, called Portalarium.

Access to justice for Burmese refugees in Thailand. Criminal justice reform in post-conflict Liberia. Private sector development in Tanzania. These are just some of the real-world issues that this year's 1Ls have been able to tackle through one of HLS's newest and fastest-growing student organizations, the Harvard Law and International Development Society (LIDS).

Women competing at this year's USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships have an added incentive: the chance to earn the opportunity to race against professionals at the premier stage race in the country. For the fourth consecutive year, the Nature Valley Grand Prix will include a composite team of six collegiate racers who will wear their school jerseys but compete as the "Ryan Collegiate All-Stars."

For spam bloggers, or sploggers as they are often known, copyright is one of the most daunting challenges. It only takes one or two copyright complaints to bring down a spam blog network by alerting the host, destroying a significant amount of work. Likewise, a few complaints to advertisers can strip a splogger of a large percentage of their income. Because of this, splogs have been working on finding ways to feign legitimacy.

In April, the Wikimedia Foundation is rolling out the first of several significant changes to the user experience of Wikipedia as part of our usability and user experience program. We are changing our default look to a new theme we call "Vector" which makes essential functions easier to find. Editing pages will be easier, thanks to a new editing toolbar that makes it easier to insert links and tables, and a built-in "cheatsheet" to access help for the most commonly used functions.

Last year, I wrote a piece about multi-hop Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and some of the various reasons why -- at the time -- multi-hop FCoE was not a practical reality. Some things have changed since I last discussed multi-hop FCoE, and today I'd like to take a quick look at the interaction between network interface virtualization (NIV) and FCoE and see how this plays into multi-hop FCoE.

Porsche recently added four new individualization packages -- comfort, infotainment, design, and design sport -- to its European Boxster and Cayman models Although Porsches are designed to be sports cars, the company strives to provide a considerable amount of luxury.

When it comes to computer technology, I'm amazed how many people aren't intimately familiar with two of the most important buttons on your keyboard. The awesome power of ALT and TAB comprise some of the most important productivity tips for anyone who uses a computer to promote or conduct their business.

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