Times are tough. Library funding is down, library use is up, and people are asking more and more questions demanding more and more time from their public library staff. In response to these increasing demands on library resources, Library Development staff at the Washington State Library have been c...

You’re going to have to shell out some cold, hard cash to get HTC’s upcoming HTC Touch Diamond2 smartphone in your pocket, but you can get some of the Diamond2’s software goodies without spending a single dime. The updated Diamond-successor sports nothing less than a 5-megapixel ca...

By Janine Sobeck It will really be Oz as politics, the arts and even sports come together to for our annual benefit to support our Community Engagement program.  Who will you find on stage? E. Faye Butler (Crowns) Marva Hicks (Crowns, The Women of Brewster Place) Brad Oscar (Damn Yankees, Caba...

Cruxy was first envisioned back 2004 as something called “DigiPay” and then “OpenVision”, and then ultimately Cruxy, a crossroads of creativity and commerce. Cruxy is also a rock climbing term for a very difficult climbing problem to solve, like perhaps when you have to cling...

This is a quick announcement just to let you know that our codes are now getting synced at code.gnucitizen.org, which is basically a file browser interface to the source repositories. The reason I had to come up with something like this is because most of our projects are dispersed across several Go...

The following announcement was written by swissinfo.ch: BERN, Switzerland, March 10 -- swissinfo.ch is launching a multimedia networking platform for Italian-speaking Swiss emigrants and their descendants. People from around the world who have their roots in Ticino and the valleys of the southern Gr...

Via email from Newt at American Solutions for Winning the Future Today, the so-called Employee Free Choice Act, or “Card Check” was introduced in the U.S. Congress. This bill would effectively eliminate our right to vote by private ballot when deciding whether to join a union, and underm...

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The no-contract world of wireless service is a rough and tumble place. With low-cost carriers jockeying to offer the most economical wireless services to consumers looking for ever better value in their wireless plans, it can be hard to get your name out there. That is, unless you do something truly...

How many times has this situation occurred: You disembark from your cramped rush-hour subway train, along with seemingly everyone in the city. You bound up the stairs and head for the turnstiles, where you know you'll have to waste precious seconds waiting for your turn as the masses merge into a si...