The other day as I was poking around the Internet I kept coming across the following date: December 29, 1967. If you are not a Star Trek person, you might not know […]
Custom Search Engine for Students
The folks at Dulcinea sent me an e-mail about SweetSearch, a custom search engine designed for students. This is a custom search engine that’s had a bunch of work put into it […]
Robert Louis Stevenson Web Site Launched
Treasure Island and a lot more! A new site dedicated to Robert Louis Stevenson has been launched at http://www.robert-louis-stevenson.org/. The site was put together by a variety of people and institutions, including […]
Bing Hooks Up With Wolfram|Alpha
Smart move. Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, has announced its teaming up with fact/calculation/whatever engine Wolfram|Alpha, available at http://www.wolframalpha.com/. Wolfram|Alpha launched earlier this year to a large and ridiculous speculation that it was […]
Wikimedia Begins the Bookshelf Project for Tentative Q4 2010 Rollout
The Wikimedia foundation, those folks behind Wikipedia, announced last week the Bookself Project, which is designed to encourage people to contribute to Wikipedia. As you might expect, it’s spawned its own wikispace […]
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