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.”

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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. “

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.

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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