Month: December 2004

Google-Library Partnership

By AMH

Last week, Google announced that they would be partnering with U. Michigan, Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, and the New York Public Library to make their entire collections searchable through a Google interface. Public-domain works will be available in their entirety and works still under copyright will have snippets returned along with information on where the works can be obtained. Google has set up their own Google Print page describing the project. They claim that they already have a Beta version working, but it’s clearly very Beta – if you type in the name of a Shakespeare play, you get a study … Continue reading Google-Library Partnership

Toro Tissue Ring

By AMH

I’m sure this is entirely impractical in a real house where clutter on a table gets shoved into each other and cats or small children run around, but I’m fascinated by the Toro Tissue Ring. Maybe for one’s office. Ooo – Drugstore.com and the Container Store both sell them. I’d have pegged this as more of an Ikea product….

Ode to Cheese

By AMH

I love how Project Gutenberg doesn’t just archive classics and popular books. They’re also making an effort to save the obscure and niche items, like the recent addition, The Complete Book of Cheese, a 1955 work by Robert Carlton Brown, and a good reference for uses of cheese, trivia about unusual cheeses, and all of your cheese-themed poetry needs. Ode to Cheese God of the country, bless today Thy cheese, For which we give Thee thanks on bended knees. Let them be fat or light, with onions blent, Shallots, brine, pepper, honey; whether scent Of sheep or fields is in … Continue reading Ode to Cheese

Be Homer

By AMH

I don’t know why there is a Java toy that lets you control a nuclear power plant simulation, and the instructions on how to use the controls are limited, but after some practice, I was able to consistently keep the place from melting down.