Monthly Archives: May 2007
Hypertext Timeline
Google Labs offers an interesting new feature: timeline view. Users can now see their search results in the form of a timeline. From Google’s experiment description page:
See results on a timeline or map. With the timeline and map views, Google’s technology extracts key dates and locations from select search results so you can view the [...]
Reading List Updated
I added a little more advanced version of the Reading List feature today. It pulls links from my del.icio.us links in a specified category and displays them on the page. You can find the link to it in the right navbar. I’ll probably discontinue the reading list that populated the sidebar soon–as soon as I [...]
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Photoshoppery
Men’s Fitness magazine seems to have altered an image of tennis player Andy Roddick that appears on the cover of the current issue. Several celebrity news sites picked up the story, which Roddick then mocked on his own blog, according to New York Times reporter Adam Newman. Roddick said the magazine increased the size of [...]
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Book Review
I finished William Martin’s The Lost Constitution (Forge Books, 2007) this afternoon, reluctantly. Up until last week, when I spotted the novel on the new arrivals table at the bookstore, I had not heard of Martin, who began writing the adventures of historical document hunter Peter Fallon in the 1970s. The premise of the novel [...]
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