June 2005

Is Google Print Real?

June 14, 2005

by Michael S. Hart, Executive Director, Project Gutenberg Today is the six month anniversary of the huge multi-million dollar media blitz announcing Google Print, the most important event since Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press. To commemorate this event I have been interviewing people from wide ranges of the Internet about their Google Print experiences, [...]

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Keyboarding

June 14, 2005

And I don’t mean with a Zissou-style Casio. Three staunch QWERTY keyboard opponents are now so taken with the DVORAK system that they have started a ‘zine in its honor. As one of the comments from the related /. post states, “Dvorak’s old hat man! It’s so 1990s.” The comment-leaver goes on to advocate a [...]

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Aaaah, My Old Friend …

June 11, 2005

… National Hurricane Center, we meet again. Tracking Tropical Storm Arlene Tweet

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Liquid Silver Flows Like Hermes Wings

June 10, 2005

Just in from Cheryl: The Periodic Table Of Haiku “Gotta love NPR for bringing cool sites like this to the attention of the public!” Tweet

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Lessons Learned Today

June 8, 2005

* Installing multiple blogs using WordPress is more involved than earlier predicted. The bullheaded code-tinkerer that I am, I will keep after it until the desired result is mine MINE MIIINE! * A born desert rat, I despise precipitation of any form (an adaptable creature, however, my humidity tolerance level goes up to 95%). Today’s [...]

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Prairiestyle

June 8, 2005

Happy birthday, Frank Lloyd Wright! Monona Terrace Convention Center: Madison, WI Tweet

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Kayaking Down Bourbon St.

June 6, 2005

Attention, rest of the nation, today is officially the first day of hurricane season down here in the Big Uneasy. We don’t go by June 1, as officially sanctioned by the National Weather Service — instead, office closures / building evacuations are our indicators. This afternoon, downtown New Orleans had the first one owing to [...]

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All Work and No Play Makes Jack A Rich Boy?

June 5, 2005

With one stone for two birds, Thomas Friedman addressed the recent hubbub over the EU Constitution and his ongoing love affair with India as follows: [France's and Holland's rejection of the EU Constitution] is interesting because French voters are trying to preserve a 35-hour work week in a world where Indian engineers are ready to [...]

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Sailing The River Of Calcite

June 3, 2005

Geologists rejoice — rocks are in the news again! The longest known calcite formation was discovered in 2001 near Fort Stanton, NM and the news has just been released to the press. This time I can’t say, “Yeah, I already knew that.” The calcite stream is pure white (hence referred to as the Snowy River) [...]

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