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Google expands search in old newspapers
Google Inc has stepped up efforts to digitize dozens of historical newspapers and make scanned images of the original papers available online, the Internet search leader said on Monday.
In a blog post on the Silicon Valley-based company’s website, Google said it is looking to make old newspapers searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives.
The effort involves the archives of dozens of newspaper titles and expands on a two-year-old effort by Google to work with two major U.S. newspapers — The New York Times and Washington Post — to index old papers in Google News Archive.
“Not only will you be able to search these newspapers, you’ll also be able to browse through them exactly as they were printed — photographs, headlines, articles, advertisements and all,” Google product manager Punit Soni said in the blog post.
The new papers range from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “the first newspaper West of the Alleghenies” (the Allegheny Mountains), to the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, which has continuously published for 244 years, making it North America’s oldest lasting paper.
The additional newspapers allow readers to see how newspapers of bygone days covered historical events.
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Boar Fights Lion and Wins
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Palin’s Religion: What’s Scary, What’s Not?
Those on the left, or merely those who aren’t evangelical Christians, are struggling to make sense of the religious life of Sarah Palin. To many, she seems a frightening harbinger of a fundamentalist takeover. Conservatives, meanwhile, will seize on the scrutiny — including liberal overreactions — as evidence that the left and the mainstream media are anti-Christian.
The Palin candidacy does pose real church-state questions, as well as many opportunities for hysterical overreaction. As a service to my panicky friends on the left and my Sarah-smitten friends on the right (who may not understand why she frightens some), here’s a guide to what is and isn’t scary, or at least questionable about Palin’s mixing of faith and politics:
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PMSBuddy.com
PMSBuddy.com is a free service created with a single goal in mind: to keep you aware of when your wife, girlfriend, mother, sister, daughter, or any other women in your life are closing in on”that time of the month” – when things can get intense for what may seem to be no reason at all.
For women, this is a great way to give people in your life a heads-up of when you might be feeling a bit irritable without having an awkward conversation.
What’s more, we will not only keep you informed, but will give you some free advice on what to do about it. With PMSBuddy.com, there is no reason to ever be blindsided by PMS again.
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High Fructose Corn Syrup Is Good For You!
That commercial from the Corn Refiners Association reminds me of this conversation from the movie Kingpin.
[On smoking]
Ishmael: You should try to quit. They say its bad for your heart, your lungs. It quickens the aging process.
Roy: Who’s done more research than the good people at the American Tobacco Industry? They say its harmless. Why would they lie? If you’re dead, you can’t smoke.
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Electoral Projections Galore – FiveThirtyEight
I really don’t know how to explain this site other than it’s a political stats paradise that is often updated. It covers the different areas of government as well as geographic areas. Check out the FAQ’s for a better explanation.
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Tip of My Tongue
Find that word that you’ve been thinking about all day but just can’t seem to remember
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Bacon T-Shirts
Several to choose from, get yours here. Â You can also choose bacon baby clothes and bacon underwear whose pictures were a bit risky for this website.
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Group dangles $50K for Jews who move to Alabama town
DOTHAN, Ala. – Larry Blumberg is looking for a few good Jews to move to his corner of the Bible Belt. Blumberg is chairman of an organization offering Jewish families as much as $50,000 to relocate to Dothan, an overwhelmingly Christian town of 58,000 that calls itself the Peanut Capital of the World. Get involved at Temple Emanu-El and stay at least five years, the group’s leaders say, and the money doesn’t have to be repaid.
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Bag of Randomness
- Here’s a nice, neutral, somewhat brief, and informative article about the McCain and Obama economic tax plans.
- I learned a new word, wont. Â When I first saw it, I thought someone mispelled a contraction.
- I’ve been married for a little over five years and just discovered how much women spend when getting their hair done . . . jaw dropping.
- In case you ever wanted to look at a high-resolution picture of John McCain [2400 x 3040], here you go.
- That photos shows a weight lifting tie, some face stubble, a little ear hair, and very trimmed eye-brows.
- This blog gets about 300 spam comments a day which I why I use a spam filtering tool. Â Sometime, unfortunately, not all legitimate comments get through.
- MSNBC is accused of being too liberal and does something about keeping it’s journalistic integrity. Fox News has been accused of being too conservative and has never done anything about it.
- I’m interested to see what SNL has in line for us regarding politics.
- I’m not sure how I did on my Southwest Airlines Blog-o-spondent interview, but I should hear some news today. Thanks again to all of you that voted.
- I never had a girlfriend in high school or college. At the time I was in the Baptist monastery.
- I just have a feeling that the Cowboys are going to disappoint me this year, and I don’t like our chances against the Eagles.
- It’s fun watching football and not playing fantasy football for a change.
- I still have a plant that a friend gave me after my father died a little over ten years ago.
- I have a friend who is named after Jimi Hendrix.
- With satellite TV, I have never had as many channels as I do now and I still can’t find anything to watch. But that’s where the greatness of Tivo comes in.
- I almost killed a bunny the other day weed-eating. He was in shallow little hole and didn’t budge at all when I got right next to him. Thankfully I saw him in time.
- I sleep with two pillows.
- Sometimes I just like to listen to musical scores. Dances With Wolves is one of my favorite.
- I’m tempted to buy things out of the Sky Mall.
- I recently discovered that El Paso is not in the Central Time Zone, all this time I thought all of Texas was in that time zone.
- I haven’t worn jeans, khakis, or any kind of dress pants to work since May.
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