9:38 am - Mon 8 Sep 2008 
Archive for the 'Cool Link' Category
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129
Words fail me. The power shown in this 7 minute long video of what we can expect to see in a few years is literally mind blowing.
Check it out.
Rich
Time for a Friday Funny…(yes, it’s a new theme for me)…enjoy!
Rich
This you HAVE to see…falling…with style…
Buck Sargent put a great article online today, about Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, the son of the bitter Cindy Sheehan. He also has an awesome, very touching video available as well, called Once Upon A Time in Mosul.
Take a moment. Read the article. View the video. You WILL be touched beyond belief.
As I’ve mentioned previously on this blog, I have a large portion of my family that has served in the US Military here and overseas. I am proud of all of them. Fortunately, I haven’t lost any of them to combat. Unfortunately, many of my friends, neighbors, and associates have lost people in their lives to combat conditions.
Buck’s article should bring a tear to your eye…even more so with the video.
Rich
Source from BrettBart.com
Google launches controversial digital book site
Nov 03 10:16 AM US/Eastern
Google launched the first phase of its controversial effort to digitize millions of books for online viewing — but said it would limit access to any copyrighted material for now.
The Internet search giant said the initial collection will include “public domain” works — those without current copyright protection.
“Because they’re out of copyright, these cultural artifacts can be read in their entirety online at http://print.google.com, where anyone can search and browse every page,” Google said in a statement. “They are fully searchable and users can save individual page images.”
The works being made available include US Civil War regimental histories and early American writings from the University of Michigan; congressional acts and other government documents from Stanford; works of Henry James from Harvard; and biographies of New York citizens and other collected biographies from the New York Public Library.
Google said the material being offered now represents “just a small fraction of the information that will eventually be made available as a result of Google Print.”
The company did not address how it would respond to issues of copyright if it goes ahead with plans to offer online versions of more current books. Google said in its online blog this week it would resume scanning of in-copyright works.
In the initial version of Google Print, which is integrated into the Google search engine, users can search the full text books Google has scanned and view a “card catalog-like entry with brief excerpts of their search term in context.”
It added, “Users can only see more of any book they find if the book is out of copyright or if the publisher has given explicit permission to show full pages of a limited portion of the book.”
Google’s announced plan to offer online versions of copyrighted books has prompted a series of lawsuits, including from authors and publishers.
Here is a great link I wanted to share with you. It’s an online food storage calculator, by those find folks at the LDS centered ProvidentLiving.org website.
There is an incredible amount of other great info, from lifestyle, to emergency preparedness, to 72 hours kits, and a whole lot more…all free.
Check it out!
Rich
