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The Scout Report -- Volume 9, Number 47

The Scout Report -- Volume 9, Number 47

Latest good issue from the Scout Report online.. here's a wonderful entry about New York.. I had no idea there was this history to these signs...

New York City Signs -- 14th to 42nd Streets

http://www.14to42.net/

Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, thousands of businesses (both small and large) advertised their wares through creative and elaborate signs painted on the sides of buildings. Of course, New York had some of the most interesting, and a few of the most compelling can be found on this website, maintained by Walter Grutchfield. Obviously it would be nearly impossible to document all of them, so he has elected to sample only a few of the many that are (or were) present in the area from 14th to 42nd Streets in Manhattan. Visitors may browse an interactive map of the area, by the date of sign construction, or by business name. For each entry, a photograph of the sign is available, along with a brief sketch of the business and its history. Guests to the site will want to take a look at the old sign for the Hotel Irving for Women and the Handin & Drapkin Furs sign on East 20th Street. [KMG]

Neat New Stuff on the Net - Weekly Reviews of New Sites by Marylaine Block

Neat New Stuff on the Net - Weekly Reviews of New Sites by Marylaine Block

Marylaine's got another great issue online, good sites here, and a nice review of a Web design book by Carrie Bickner in her ExLibris column...

Thanksgiving edition: November 26, 2003 All sites are working at the time I post them. If any are not working at the time you click on them, keep trying; their server may be unable to handle the sudden rush of traffic I've sent to it.

360 Degree Tours of Ground Zero Memorial Finalists http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/wtc/nyc-gz-finalists,0,7540624.htmlstory?coll=nyc-wtc-headlines
Newsday offers both the 360 degrees tour and photographs of the eight finalists' designs for the memorials. You can also follow the links to Rebuilding, The Lost, and the Attacks.

Read the rest online on her site...

CIT: Publications: CIT Infobits: November 2003

CIT: Publications: CIT Infobits: November 2003

CIT Infobits is online, and linked.. two really good items are reprinted below.. the Plantation site about researching the first Thanksgiving is an excellent use of technology for teaching.. first-rate site...

CIT Home > Publications > CIT Infobits > November 2003 CIT Infobits

Issue 65, November 2003, ISSN 1521-9275

About INFOBITS
Infobits is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Academic & Technology Networks' Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the CIT's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators.

IT Trends and Issues
Data Deluge
Online Content Design Guides
Libraries and E-learning
Recommended Reading

DATA DELUGE

It's not your imagination that you're drowning in too much information. Faculty and students at the School of Information Management and Systems, University of California at Berkeley, attempted to estimate how much new information is created and distributed each year. They looked at information stored in four types of media -- print, film, magnetic, and optical -- and seen or heard in four information flows -- telephone, radio, TV, and the Internet. They found that the amount of data has doubled since they began their research in 1999, resulting in about five exabytes of new information in 2002. How much is five exabytes? According to the researchers, five exabytes of information is "equivalent in size to the information contained in half a million new libraries the size of the Library of Congress print collections." The report, "How Much Information 2003," is available online at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/.

Infobits subscriber Lisa Neal (lisa@acm.org) was project manager for "You Are the Historian: Investigating the First Thanksgiving," the award-winning website for the Plimoth Plantation's online learning center at http://www.plimoth.org/olc/. Lisa presented a paper, "Making Learning Fun when Teaching Children Online: Plimoth Plantation's Online Learning Center," at the E-Learn 2003 conference. She would be happy to email a copy to anyone who is interested.

British Library lists rare books on Amazon

ZDNet UK - News - British Library lists rare books on Amazon

British Library lists rare books on Amazon Matthew Broersma ZDNet UK, November 24, 2003, 18:00 GMT

The nation's flagship library has contributed millions of bibliographic listings to Amazon.co.uk, making it possible for many rare books to be added to the site for the first time.

The British Library has opened up its extensive bibliographic records to the Internet, adding millions of records to Amazon.co.uk's books listings. The move will make it possible for rare and antiquarian books, including nearly two million titles published before the 1970 introduction of the ISBN, to be listed on Amazon's site for the first time.

These searches bring up some sample entries...
Ivor Herbert's "The Queen Mother's Horses"

Phillippe de Monte's second book of madrigals

Love in the Time of No Time

Love in the Time of No Time

Love in the Time of No Time
By JENNIFER EGAN, Published: November 23, 2003

The city is full of people we can't reach. We pass them on sidewalks, sit across from them in the subway and in restaurants; we glimpse their lighted windows from our own lighted windows late at night. That's in New York. In most of America, people float alongside one another on freeways as they drive between the city and the places where they live. To lock eyes with a stranger is to feel the gulf between proximity and familiarity and to wish -- at least sometimes, briefly, most of us -- that we could jump the hedges of our own narrow lives and find those people again when they drift out of sight.

In a sense, the explosion of online personals speaks to the fervency of that wish. In the first half of 2003, Americans spent $214.3 million on personals and dating sites -- almost triple what they spent in all of 2001. Online dating is the most lucrative form of legal paid online content. According to comScore Networks, which monitors consumer behavior on the Internet, 40 million Americans visited at least one online dating site in August -- 27 percent of all Internet users for that month.

36 Hours: In Charlotte, N.C.

36 Hours: In Charlotte, N.C.

Nice travel and update, about my "hometown".. grew up, went to high school and college in Charlotte.. still my "hometown"....

36 HOURS
In Charlotte, N.C.
By LOUIS JACOBSON, Published: November 14, 2003

OVER the last 20 years, Charlotte, North Carolina's biggest city, has remade itself from a textiles town into an investment and banking center, the nation's second-largest financial-services hub after New York City (and about to become bigger if the proposed merger of Bank of America and Fleet goes through). The moderate Carolina weather makes the city a pleasant place to stroll in winter, while museums and hip shops are also a draw. And though the city has a thriving historic-preservation movement, you get the unmistakable feeling that Charlotte sees itself as a city of the future — and it has the new skyscrapers to prove it.

JFK: Breaking the News

JFK: Breaking the News

The Power of Pictures

A fascinating documentary that retraces local television's coverage of
President Kennedy's assassination will premiere tonight, November 19th, on
PBS.

Did the tragedy cause the nation to turn from getting its news from newspapers to
getting its news from television? Read the review of the program from Columbia Journalism Review (CJR)...

Source: As posted via the CJR mailing list

Thanksgiving Dinner, With 12 Chefs on the Side

Thanksgiving Dinner, With 12 Chefs on the Side

Article includes twelve very cool and different side dishes for Thanksgiving.. I'm thinking about trying one out this year...

Thanksgiving Dinner, With 12 Chefs on the Side
By AMANDA HESSER, Published: November 19, 2003

ALMOST everybody has a story about the year the family rebel tried to overthrow the tradition of turkey on Thanksgiving. The story never ends well for the transgressor. His revolt is crushed, he is mocked and now he spends most of the holiday muttering to himself.

Thanksgiving, more than any other holiday, is guided by conformity. This may frustrate cooks with creative hearts and eaters with adventurous palates, but a culinary battle is like any other. The battlefield must be chosen carefully. Forget the turkey and pumpkin pie: side dishes are the platform for change. You can introduce new flavors, try different techniques and slowly phase out your aunt's insipid green beans.

Side dishes at a big feast like Thanksgiving function almost as condiments. You don't want to eat too much of any one dish, so each should be strongly flavored and generously seasoned — not just rich, but distinctive.

The Year in Books 2003

The Year In Books 2003

Read the full article

These categories available:
Fiction
Comics
Mystery
SF/Fantasy/Horror
Mass Market
Nonfiction
Illustrated Books
Lifestyle
Poetry: Found in Translation
Religion

See the Publisher's Weekly list of this year's best Children's Books

D-Lib Magazine: November 2003 Issue

D-Lib Magazine

The November 2003 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available.

In this issue there are four articles, several smaller features in D-Lib Magazine's 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. The
Featured Collection for October is George Mason University's Center for History and New Media, courtesy of Dr. Roy Rosenzweig.

The articles include:

New Ways of Sharing and Using Authority Information: The LEAF Project

Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library; Hans-Jörg Lieder,
Berlin State Library; Kurt Majcen and Heribert Vallant,
Joanneum Research

Using MPEG-21 DIDL to Represent Complex Digital Objects in the Los Alamos National Laboratory Digital Library

Jeroen Bekaert, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Ghent
University; Patrick Hochstenbach and Herbert Van de Sompel,
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Public Opinion Polls and Digital Preservation: An Application of the
Fedora Digital Object Repository System

Ronald Jantz, Rutgers University

The DiVA Project - Development of an Electronic Publishing System

Eva Müller, Uwe Klosa, Stefan Andersson, and Peter Hansson,
Uppsala University, Sweden

Star Wars: Community | R2-D2 Inducted into Robot Hall of Fame

Star Wars: Community | R2-D2 Inducted into Robot Hall of Fame

R2-D2 Inducted into Robot Hall of Fame November 11, 2003

Robots who don't play guitar or bat in pro baseball now have their own Hall of Fame. Carnegie Mellon University inducted the classic droid hero R2-D2 into its newly-established Robot Hall of Fame in a ceremony at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Science Center on November 10. NASA's Mars Pathfinder Microrover Flight Experiment (MFEX), better known as "Sojourner;" Unimate, the first industrial robot; and the evil HAL-9000 computer, featured in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, created by science fiction writer and futurist Sir Arthur C. Clarke and director Stanley Kubrick, were also inducted in this first annual Hall of Fame event.

Seven flights of fancy that fizzled

Seven flights of fancy that fizzled

Seven flights of fancy that fizzled

Why flying cars, jetpacks
haven't taken hold ... yet

By Alan Boyle, MSNBC

Nov. 17 -- The Wright brothers did the seemingly impossible in 1903, and 50 years later, the era of flying cars, supersonic commerce and interplanetary travel seemed just around the corner. But in the 50 years that followed, those dreams receded. Realizing them, it became clear, was costlier, riskier and just plain harder than expected. Are those dreams gone for good?

Search Engine Report - Number 84

The Search Engine Report - Number 84

A new issue of this monthly report is online.. a good must-read review of recent developments with solid links, all about search, engines, and new related sites.. you can sign-up on the site for the free version of the e-mailed newsletter.. recommended...

The Search Engine Report - Number 84

By Danny Sullivan, Editor, November 5, 2003

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In This Issue

Search Engine Watch News

SES Chicago Agenda Available

Search Engine Articles By Danny Sullivan

SearchDay Articles

Search Engine Articles

Radio contributes good luck sprint...

Radio contributes good luck sprint

A really wonderful story, and what a great and happy ending.. Clemson ended up winning huge for the first win of son-coach Tommy over dad-coach Bobby.. we were at the La Jolla theatres watching the movie at the same time all this was happening in Clemson, SC.. we lived in Clemson in the 1980s, while I worked for Grace in Duncan, SC, and my wife worked for the university.. bought our first home there, great college and small town.. go Radio, and go Tigers!

Don't miss a read and review of the special section the local Anderson paper has up about Radio - the man and the movie and the history..

Radio contributes good luck sprint
By Brett Jensen, Independent-Mail
November 9, 2003

CLEMSON -- Thirty minutes before Clemson's biggest football game of the year, the sidelines of Frank Howard Field in Memorial Stadium were abuzz, but not with anticipation of the upcoming kickoff.

It was all reserved for Anderson's newest and biggest celebrity, James "Radio" Kennedy, who has a movie portraying his longtime relationship with former T.L. Hanna football coach Harold Jones in theaters nationwide.

Before the Tigers' game against national powerhouse Florida State on Saturday night, Mr. Kennedy was presented with an orange Clemson jersey baring [bearing] the number 5, with the name RADIO draped across his back between the shoulders, as well as a football autographed by the entire Tigers team from Athletics Director Terry Don Philips.

Fangoria: THE LIBRARIAN...

Fangoria: THE LIBRARIAN

On top of that, Devlin has another supernatural project going, also for the small screen. "We're doing a movie for TNT called THE LIBRARIAN," Devlin reveals. "We're handing in the script next week. LIBRARIAN is a fun project. It's the story of a guy who is 32 years old and still in college -- not because he's dumb, but because every time he gets a degree, he wants another one. So he's never left the university. He has no experience whatsoever in the world. Finally, he gets pushed out of the university and takes a job at the New York Public Library, and when they see his credits, they decide to make him 'The Librarian.' They walk him into the back of the library and pull a book off a shelf, the shelf opens up and there's an elevator. There are two guards in there, and they simultaneously turn keys at the same time. The elevator goes down 100 floors, the doors open and we see that room at the end of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK -- all the great treasures of the world are being kept there, and he's in charge of them. Of course, one gets stolen and they have to bring it back."