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November 24, 2004
Do you have the red book -- the thick one?
An interesting aside I thought I would share…
NPR : A San Francisco Bookshop Shows Its ColorsIf you’re looking for a particular book among the back shelves of San Francisco’s Adobe Bookshop this week, disregard the section headings — they won’t offer any guidance. The store’s collection of more than 20,000 used books has been rearranged and grouped according to the color spectrum. Red books are at the front, followed by orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet along the wall.
:: My posting frequency and quality will increase again…but not this month! :)
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November 16, 2004
Yahoo and OCLC Co-Brand a Toolbar
November 15, 2004 — Today, OCLC (http://www.oclc.org) and Yahoo! officially launch a free co-branded toolbar that provides one-click access to Open WorldCat as well as Yahoo! Search’s Web search engine. The free toolbar plugs into Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. A whirligig OCLC logo to the extreme left on the toolbar clicks to a subset of Open WorldCat (currently 2 million of the 57 million records available in the full WorldCat, reflecting the holdings of some 9,000 libraries). In time, the click-through will access more—perhaps all—of the WorldCat database, as Yahoo! begins to “harvest” the full file now offered by OCLC. The new toolbar also supports access to other OCLC database services, such as FirstSearch and netLibrary, for those using the toolbar via library networks. [See NewsBreaks: “All of OCLC’s WorldCat Heading Toward the Open Web,” http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb041011-2.shtml and “Yahoo! Search Joins OCLC Open WorldCat Project,” http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb040706-2.shtml.]
:: Zero time to post these days. My del.icio.us feed is your best bet for getting new information out of me. It’s all I can do to bookmark a few sites, let alone comment on them. I hope things will slow down a bit soon. :)
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November 09, 2004
The fox in the chicken coop
Today was the lauch day for Firefox 1.0, a browser that easily blows Internet Explorer out of the water. The integrated RSS/Live bookmarking function is only one of many different reasons why I would tell you to GO GET THIS BROWSER now! Why wait?
Perhaps my enthusiasm is a bit tainted after reading that Microsoft has laid claim to the Internet — specifically cliaming intellectual property rights over many of the common Internet protocols we depend on.
Doesn’t Al Gore already have the patent? :)
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November 04, 2004
Tomorrow, tomorrow, there's always tomorrow...
Well, there isn’t much to be said that hasn’t already been said somewhere, or on some blog or newspaper, related to the US presidential election. I’ll simply point to Mena’s map and welcome you to the world of Tim Horton’s if you so desire.
Only one thing broke up the drone of the political analysts and their regurgitation of the nights events: Dan Rather. Dan had more spark to him than a case full of zippos. Dan put to shame all but the cheeziest of sport’s commentators that night, pulling out such classics as, “No question now that Kerry’s rapidly reaching the point where he’s got his back to the wall, his shirttails on fire and the bill collector’s at the door.” Or, “In southern states they beat him like a rented mule.” Or “We need Billy Crystal to Analyze This”.
For the entire list, check out grubbykid.com: Quotes from CBS Anchor Dan Rather on Election Night 2004.
“This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.”
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