From Stephen E. Arnold’s The Google Legacy: How Google’s Internet Search is Transforming Application Software (Infonortics: September 2005):
The figure Google’s Fusion: Hardware and Software Engineering shows that Google’s technology framework has two areas of activity. There is the software engineering effort that focuses on PageRank and other applications. Software engineering, as used here, [...]
Posted on November 28th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From AP’s “Borrowed books returned to museum — 92 years later” (CNN: 6 November 2000):
The Field Museum of Natural History recently returned 10 volumes to the American Museum of Natural History in New York — 92 years late.
It seems a researcher from the New York museum took the books with him when he accepted a [...]
Posted on June 11th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From The Invisible Library:
The Invisible Library is a collection of books that only appear in other books. Within the library’s catalog you will find imaginary books, pseudobiblia, artifictions, fabled tomes, libris phantastica, and all manner of books unwritten, unread, unpublished, and unfound.
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Posted on November 28th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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I was an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis from 1985-1989, and a graduate student in English Lit. from 1989-1996. During that time, I racked up my share of library fines (not hard to do when the fines were $0.10 a day, per book), a couple of times into three digits. In fact, I [...]
Posted on June 29th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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