Telegraph – “The site contains existing and new images, including the only known video footage of Anne – a shot a few seconds-long of her leaning out of an upstairs window during the wedding of a neighbour in July 1941.”
Related – Tracing the Many Lives of Anne Frank and Her Still-Vivid Wartime Diary
B&C – “The National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors has joined Google and Microsoft in supporting the Fiber to the Library initiative. The initiative, a project of the Community Telestructure Initiative, which promotes broadband infrastructure deployment, wants every library in the U.S. connected to high-speed broadband by 2010.”
Research Buzz – “This viewer allows you to generate links to view PDFs, Powerpoints, and TIFF documents from the comfort of your own browser.”
Or, you can use PDFMeNot.
KMJNow – “The man accused of looking at child pornography at the Lindsay library, that may have cost a librarian her job, will not serve any jail time.”
UCSC – “The grant will enable the UCSC Library to digitize materials from its Grateful Dead Archive and make them available in a unique and cutting-edge web site titled, “The Virtual Terrapin Station.”
Um, Yay!
Daily Princetonian – “When the University announced its Kindle e-reader pilot program last May, administrators seemed cautiously optimistic that the e-readers would both be sustainable and serve as a valuable academic tool. But less than two weeks after 50 students received the free Kindle DX e-readers, many of them said they were dissatisfied and uncomfortable with the devices.”
This is a great idea, one that the President should push more, once this health care issue gets resolved.
Guardian – “Caught at night with infrared cameras, deep underwater with huge floodlights, and under microscopes which distinguish different sorts of microbe, the BBC’s Wildlife Finder is the product of years of planning – and dreaming. Technology and funding have finally made possible the corporation’s ambition to give its spectacular natural history photography and film a permanent global audience.”
Time – “Looking back, it was naive to expect Wikipedia’s joyride to last forever.”
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