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Books: 20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web
Google has produced a wonderful animated online book called “20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web” that explains many concepts and tools that the Internet is build of today…
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Google Search: List of available magazine
We played around with Google’s new feature to search and display complete magazines and here’s the list of currently available magazines we could find (35 magazines – in alphabetic order)…
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Books: Complete George Orwells work online
If you want to read one of George Orwell’s classics like 1984 or Animal Farm again (or read it for the first time because you grown up in a country like the former Soviet Union that made it illegal to read or own his work) then have a look at George-Orwell.org.
Besides his well known writing it also includes his essays like for example “How the Poor Die”. You will also find links to the complete work of Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare on the site.
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Animation: This Is Where We Live
An outstanding stop motion film created for the 25th Anniversary of 4th Estate Publishers.
If you would like to find out how this animation was created have a look at some of the other videos from 4th Estate at vimeo or at the film’s web site (link below).
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Data Visualization: The Three Trillion Dollar War
An outstanding infographic by the Good Magazine on the true cost of the war in Iraq.
The image is based on work by Nobel Prize laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes who have together published a book on this subject earlier this year (link below). There is also a video narrating the key parts of the graphics on the Good Magazine web site.
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How it’s done: Book scan
If you ever wanted to know how the millions of book pages for online libraries might be scanned in the future, here are two videos showing one of the robots at work.
The automatic book scanning machine, called ScanRobot can scan up to 2500 pages per hour and is shown in action, scanning an old book from the 16th century, at a speed of about 1250 pages per hour.
The ScanRobot won one of last year’s European ICT Grand Prizes and series-production of…
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