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"A chance shake-up of Maryland House of Delegates seating assignments brought Republican Wade Kach face to face with gay couples who had come to make the case for a gay marriage law, and might have proved decisive in its final passage through the state's General Assembly on Thursday. In an effort to get the bill to the House floor, a special joint committee was formed and legislators were left scrambling for seats. Kach, who had previously backed attempts to define marriage as between one man and one woman, found a space right next to the witness table. "I [sat] with so many of the gay couples, they were so devoted to another. I saw so much love," he said. "When this hearing was over, I was a changed person in regard to this issue. I felt that I understood what same sex couples were looking for."" - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

Oh, you mean they're not looking to undermine the very fabric of American society? =p - ronin

Ten years ago today, the Budapest Declaration was published. The declaration was the output of a meeting held some months earlier, largely through the efforts of Melissa Hagemann, that brought together key players from the, then nascent, Open Access movement. BioMedCentral had been publishing for a year or so, PLoS existed as an open ... - Cameron Neylon

Kitware: https://docs.google.com/documen... - Heather Piwowar

Here's mine: http://cameronneylon.net/blog... - Cameron Neylon

Congratulations! And major props for you taking leap to open science, love it! - Steve Koch from Android

Wordpress post-revision display is a simple solution: http://wordpress.org/extend... (OKF recommends I believe). I think Cameron is correct, you'd have to git-manage cached pages instead (or if making edits in an external editor, you could commit those to git & share them on github where a non-git user could easily review the history, but not an elegant solution). Re: ONS logos, nice discussion here: http://andymaloney.wordpress.com/2011... - Carl Boettiger

When I was young and in training I thought "Oh cool! I'll try to learn that." Heheheheheheh. - lris

A+ - Ali Oz

"Among"? What are the competitors for the title?!!! - Michael Nielsen

aloha - jambina

I flew! - Meg V. Meg

If you do search for deuterium-depleted water on your google, how many pages until Anthony's notebook shows up? Assuming your google is more neutral than mine... I agree misinformation is an issue, but I think ONS overall helps much more than hurts. I think it's tempting, but wrong to worry about concealing results for benefit of public. Those who would misuse will misuse and mislead regardless of whether they find good data, bad data, or no data. - Steve Koch from Android

"The world's oldest scientific academy, the Royal Society, has made its historical journal, which includes about 60,000 scientific papers, permanently free to access online. (...) Its archives offer a fascinating window on the history of scientific progress over the last few centuries. Nestling amongst illustrious papers by Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin are some undiscovered gems from the dawn of the scientific revolution, including gruesome tales of students being struck by lightning and experimental blood transfusions." - Amira from Bookmarklet

Archive of All Online Issues 1665-1887 http://rstl.royalsocietypublis... January 1887 - Present http://rstb.royalsocietypublis... - Amira

Woohoo! - Marie

thank you all! - Christina Pikas

You'll need to go to the linked post for full context; briefly, there's a draft letter in support of Steve's tenure case here (http://piratepad.net/DpuxZJT...) that his Open Science peeps can sign. This is not a substitute for the traditional individual letters of support, but an entirely appropriate supplement to same given that Steve is making Open Science a big part of his case. - Bill Hooker

Just saw this thread. Thank you everyone! - Steve Koch

"A bold experiment in distributed education, "Machine Learning" will be offered free and online to students worldwide during the fall of 2011. Students will have access to lecture videos, lecture notes, receive regular feedback on progress, and receive answers to questions." - viltrio from Bookmarklet

unconference, you must mean - Matthew Todd

Happy days. - science3point0

Some ideas on how to get involved: http://lists.okfn.org/piperma... and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki... . - Daniel Mietchen

Quite some months ago an article in Cancer Therapy and Biology by Scott Kern of Johns Hopkins kicked up an almighty online stink. The article entitled "Where's the passion" bemoaned the lack of hard core dedication amongst the younger researchers that the author saw around him. This article got a lot of people very ... - Cameron Neylon

See also: https://plus.google.com/1091912... - Cameron Neylon

I couldn't help myself... - Michael Nielsen

The like button *made* you click it. - John Dupuis

I, er, like the last paragraph: "So is there a subtle or even overt pressure exerted by all the like buttons and retweeting we see around us? Sure there is. But it wasn’t invented by social networking, and it won’t disappear even if we get rid of Twitter and Facebook. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to resist that pressure to conform — it just means we should be aware that it’s part of the way human beings operate, whether they are online or not." - John Dupuis

That Google group seems to have the wrong idea about a thing or two. Sent a message to the list... - Mr. Gunn

how did they know people were "general public" and not coming from hospitals or small doctors practices? I see that they know not coming from .edus. - Christina Pikas

Cameron, actually... I think a good deal of access I do from outside desk hours... could not say the ratio, but 50/50 does not sounds unreasonable to me... reason: during office hours I have meetings, and have less time to keep up with literature. That phenomenon does not sound unreasonable to me either. - Egon Willighagen

Contributions come from industry and academia. - Pawel Szczesny

The analyses are in the wiki? GitHub Wikis can be forked, though only through Git itself. - Mike Chelen

Have often toyed with this. Do you know that by doing this you're not invalidating the proposal on a technicality? - Matthew Todd

I'm assuming, perhaps foolishly, that NERC doesn't have a policy on this. If it did, I can't see why being open is a problem. - Roderic Page