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A “hypertext”

In the midst of col­lect­ing Web links to accom­pany one of my upcom­ing arti­cles, I came across this page, still hosted some­where in the depths of MSU’s old­est servers. This “hyper­text” in glacial geol­ogy dates back to 1999, when stu­dents in Geology 445 — Glacial Geology cre­ated the site. The date at the top of [...]
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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 [...]
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The Name of God

Ever since an oral tra­di­tions class dur­ing my under­grad years and since watch­ing the movie π, I have been fas­ci­nated with the Jewish pro­to­cols sur­round­ing the name of God. So far as I can tell, Jews are not allowed to destroy or deface any of the divine names once they are writ­ten. There is no [...]
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The Onyx Project

Today I watched The Onyx Project inter­ac­tive DVD film. It was writ­ten and directed by Larry Atlas and stars David Strathairn, who recently played Edward Murrow in Good Night and Good Luck. The plot, if the DVD has one, involves Strathairn’s char­ac­ter, Col. Robert Henderson, a for­mer spe­cial ops com­man­der who fought in the Gulf [...]
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“…as it should be.”

Sorry for the lack of updates, but the hol­i­day sea­son, com­bined with win­ter break, has kept me away from the computer. AOL is run­ning a com­mer­cial on tele­vi­sion boast­ing the capa­bil­i­ties of the “new” AOL. We see a woman’s face as if look­ing through the com­puter mon­i­tor back at her. As a fil­ter between us [...]
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