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ResearchBuzz Roundup 040508

Press Release — iTunes Now the Top Music Retailer in the US?

Heh. Following Congressional activity on Twitter.

When does someone get the right to be called a librarian?

UC San Diego and Google Book Search.

Berkeley student writes and performs songs about math and science. Three of her songs are included with this story. When I listened to Horizontal Asymptote, my first thought was “I think I have discovered the soundtrack for xkcd.”

Cornell: how chain letters travel across the Internet.

Using dog hair to solve the energy crisis. I have some cat hair you can have.

Best Sci-Tech Books 2007.

Google turns quoted search into unquoted one if nothing’s found? I wonder if this has anything to do with that thing about Google and open quotes I posted a few weeks ago.

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