Google to offer book search?
Days after Amazon launched a new full-text search of books in its system comes word that Google is considering a similar offering.
Archive for October, 2003
Blog comment spam
I got my first blog comment spam today, in the form of strings of URLs shotgunned at several of my blog entries. From what I’ve been able to figure out, here’s what blog-comment spam is all about: Google uses a feature called PageRank to rate sites. The more links there are to a certain site, […]
Search the full text of books at Amazon
Amazon has announced a new feature on its site: You can now search the full text of books in its database. This is pretty cool, as Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO, points out in a letter to customers. And it’s easy to use. All you do is enter your search term in the same search box […]
Thirties
A new book about life in your thirties has a new associated weblog: Book of Ages: How Do You Stack Up?
[via Gothamist]
Slew of books
My company’s having a book sale this week, and everything’s a quarter, so it’s a chance to try out some stuff for which I’d never probably pay full price. (Six books for a buck fifty!) It amuses even me, however, what a hodgepodge of stuff I selected. Here’s a list:
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Strummer’s Redemption
Old pirates, yes, they rob I;
Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong
By the ‘and of the Almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.
Won’t you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
‘Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.
The final album from Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros arrives […]
FreshDirect comes to my nabe!
FreshDirect is now in my neighborhood–well, parts of my neighborhood, anyway.
FreshDirect is an online grocery store that delivers to neighborhoods in New York City–rolling out first in select Manhattan neighborhoods and slowly expanding into the rest of Manhattan and the outer boroughs.
Turbanhead describes the experience of shopping in NYC groceries.
Sir Lunchalot describes the distribution center.
BusinessWeek […]
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New York Daily News - News & Views - World chumpions!
“The Yankees couldn’t get the job done at home; their season ended last night in the seventh game,” wrote the New York Post in an editorial Friday morning. The Post blames the gaffe on a production error. The Daily News, of course, is having fun […]
Your life in photos
Matt Haughey, creator of MetaFilter and PVRblog, among other cool sites, has started Ten Years of My Life, a website documenting, in photos, Matt moving through his 30s.
Intriguing idea. This is worth following.
