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| Thread ID: 60061 | 2005-07-21 17:59:00 | On The Shoulders Of Giants: | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 374101 | 2005-07-21 17:59:00 | Google has teamed up with a new research engine, WorldCat. (www.oclc.org) for a library search engine that is setting fire to the old libraries around the world. It is still setting up, but the ground floor is taking off really good and this is a good site to save as a favorite for future scholars to use. Google has also gotten a new extension (I use it thru Firefox) and it too is basically the same thing, although in the Beta stages yet. It's called Google Scholar. (http://scholar.google.com/) It is clean and simple to use too, but has only the one engine driving it. Actually, I think GS is the better of the two as it's simpler to use and you can assign it a spot on the Firefox toolbar. :nerd: |
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| 374102 | 2005-07-21 21:50:00 | Nice.... It doesnt seem to get results faster than standard google though. :( |
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| 374103 | 2005-07-21 22:14:00 | Here comes the "Yeah, but!" part I forgot to post: This/these engines ONLY return results from libraries, not from people's personal pages or sites that might have the word "book" in it as a buzzword...I think that makes it a lot better for just the research in books and periodicals that are actually in libraries.. |
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| 374104 | 2005-07-21 22:21:00 | Excellant. | personthingy (1670) | ||
| 374105 | 2005-07-24 01:10:00 | Just found another great library-only site . It too has a small beginning, but is growing . The "Wayback Machine" (http://www . waybackmachine . org/) has a lot of good other areas, like finding that url that might be hazardous or even a spoof . Cruise around in it and see . I have used it in the past to check for site certs and licenses, but this is another click I didn't try until yesterday . |
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| 374106 | 2005-07-24 02:08:00 | Thanks Surfer*. How are you coping with the heat? Friend of mine in Phoenix tells me that people are dying in the streets. | Scouse (83) | ||
| 374107 | 2005-07-24 02:39:00 | Heat . . . . . . let me TELL you about heat! This whole last 10 days has been over 100 F/38 C but just today we got monsoon rains from Mexico which took the humidity levels up to gurgle-while-you-breathe . We had torrential rains today, very unseasonal and not usually in this territory either, but that's not all . We had 3 tornadoes in our town this noon . I have a NOAA radio that gives warnings in case of disasterous weather conditions, and today at 12:05PM, the tornado alarm went off . NOAA is the US govt special broadcast radio station that sends warnings to zones set up by a series of coded map co-ordinates . I get the one from the Hemet/Winchester/Homeland/SanJacinto/Lakeview area . These are all small connected towns that you can't tell the boundries from one to the other . Anyway, the tornadoes didn't seem to cause any damage other than very high winds (first one way and then the other) and driving some hellascious rains into and under homes . Since we are in a mobile home, and sit very high on the ground, the water would have to get over our grade by about 24 inches to bother us . We are about the highest home as far as grade goes here too, so we are well-off . Just 1 block to the north-east of us was an area that always flooded badly even in smaller rains, but they build houses there anyway . I haven't gone out to see if any of them have water marks on their walls yet . I am going to put some of the pixs on this site: . msn . com/ForNewZealandersToSee/_whatsnew . msnw" target="_blank">groups . msn . com I haven't labeled them yet, as I wanted to get them posted fast and just uploaded then without names . . they will probably be on the last page of the pixs section . As far as Phoenix . . yes some people there did die in the heat . It got to 121 one day, and with the closeness to the Mexican weather from the Gulf of Mexico, it makes it rather sticky there anyway . We here in SanJacinto/Hemet usually are dry humidity-wise, so this wetness is kinda new to the people here . I recorded 119 F /48C the other day here on my digital recording thermometer . If people are dying from the heat here, we usually don't know . This is a major retirement community or at least it WAS till the housing costs in LA and Orange County (90210; The OC) drove numbers of families here too . The ambulances all start running every 6AM or so, when the wife/husband notices that her other half is cold and not breathing . It seems a lot of the olde folks drop off in their sleep, peacefully, as I don't think it is flagrant delicato for them! |
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