Check out the really cool online access to 70 years of New York Times archives they are calling, “TimesMachine”. The archives date back from their very first issue on September 18, 1851 through till December 30, 1922. If I have my calculations right, that’s over 26,000 issues. Looks like Amazon S3 is being used to store the images.
Ralph Nader is back, and he announced on Meet the Press that he will be running again for the Presidency. This will be his fourth consecutive run for President as a third party candidate.
Asked about his age (he will turn 74 on Wednesday), Mr. Nader said, “The only aging is the erosion of one’s ideals.”
“Well, you know his being on the Green Party prevented Al Gore from being the greenest president we’ve ever had,” Mrs. Clinton said. “And I think that’s really unfortunate.”
PHOTO BY: WICKENDEN
In an attempt to block YouTube in Pakistan, they ordered internet service providers around the world to block the YouTube site, which resulted in YouTube going down for an hour. Maybe it’s time to just block Islamic countries and China from any access to the internet. If they want to use the internet, then become open minded first!
“the details of the “hijack” were leaked out into the wider internet from PCCW and as a result YouTube was mistakenly blocked by internet service providers around the world. “
If you rather listen than read blogs while multi-tasking, BlogBard is the service you have been looking for. BlogBard’s reader with voice will provide audio versions of blog posts. It currently supports Google reader and Bloglines. If you don’t use these services, you can simply enter the url of the blog, and BlogBard will provide the audio post. For blog publishers, there is even a embeddable widget.
“One day, while struggling with my homework assignment , and listening to CNN news on TV, I wished if someone could do the same for my favourite blogs. We were spending a lot of time reading blogs and were looking for a solution that would let us multitask while still letting us keep in touch with our favorite blogs. We created Blogbard LLC to enable blog aficionados like us to multitask. “
lowercase L, a unique blog trying to unravel the psychology of the lowercase L offenders in an uppercase surrounding.
“The gist of lowercase L is this: I have noticed that, when people create handwritten signs, they sometimes choose to capitalize every letter except the letter “L”.”
Daily Kos unearths Obama’s senate record to put an end to the charge that Obama is all talk and no action. Since 2005 Obama has sponsored or co-sponsored 570 bills, out of which 15 have became law. He also introduced amendments to 50 bills, out of which 16 were adopted.
Photo Time Capsule, a new cool feature from Photojojo, which will once a week email you photos from a year ago from your Flickr account. Read more about the Time Capsule service. See email sample.
“Every couple weeks, the Time Capsule looks at your Flickr account for photos you took a year ago. It picks the ones that are most interesting — the ones that got viewed the most, favorited the most, and commented on the most — and sends them to you in email.”
If you are headed to SXSW(south by southwest conference and festival) held in Austin, Texas on March 7th, you might want to read Airbag’s guide to SXSW for the newbs and veterans.
“Use your laptop sparingly. You’d be amazed at how much better your experience will be if your eyes aren’t glued to a screen.”
Lot of blogs have been experiencing considerable drop in FeedBurner subscriber counts. Here is an update from FeedBurner forum regarding this issue:
Feedfetcher’s subscriber reporting is being restored; if your numbers are missing with yesterday’s totals, specifically, you should see them start to return with Friday morning’s (GMT -0500) reported totals. (It may take longer than one day for complete coverage to return.)
People in North and South America will be able to see a total Lunar Eclipse tonight. This will be the last lunar eclipse till 2010. You will also be able to spot Saturn and the bright star Regulus. The eclipse will last around an hour starting at 7pm on the west cost, and 10pm on the east cost. If you are planning to photograph the total lunar eclipse, then check out the tips provided by New York Institute of Photography. Here is another resource for shooting the moon from cameraporn.
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iPaper, a YouTube like flash player for embedding various document formats (PDF, Microsoft Office documents, text files, and images) on web pages. It will even allow advertising within the documents, and best of all, no more downloading bulky pdf files, and keeps the users on the web site.
Some are speculating this could be the end of pdf, but it might not be the case, instead iPaper could encourage the use of pdf and other document formats, now that there is a better medium for embedding documents on a web page.
CURRENTLY THE SCRIPT DOES NOT WORK IF YOU TRY TO EMBED iPAPER USING WORDPRESS POST EDITOR
A new version of Google’s Android SDK pre-release is out. From ars technica it looks the changes to the API can affect already developed Android applications. Google has also added an issue tracking system, and improved the UI. Other new additions include layout animations, geo-coding, new media codes, improved Eclipse plugin with a new manifest editor. See changes overview
As more and more retailers gravitate towards Blu-ray over Toshiba’s HD DVD, rumors are afloat, that Microsoft is going to dump HD DVD for Blu-ray in the X-Box. X-Box with Blu-ray could be out around May 2008.
A list of 25 very cool, makes you want to have it, kind of Gadgets. The on/off mug is definitely cool, and the PieLamp + Bookshelf design is interesting.
NYTimes article on Susan Jacoby book, “The Age of American Unreason.”, where she takes a look at not only Americans lack of interest in essential scientific, civic, cultural, and general knowledge; but also why they don’t think it matters.
“This is just like Pearl Harbor,” one of the men said.
The other asked, “What is Pearl Harbor?”
“That was when the Vietnamese dropped bombs in a harbor, and it started the Vietnam War,” the first man replied.At that moment, Ms. Jacoby said, “I decided to write this book.”
