July 18, 2007
Mac OS X Leopard
If you have been waiting for Leopard, you can preorder it now at Amazon.com.
According to the article at Wikipedia, "Leopard contains over 300 changes and enhancements, according to Apple.[3] Some notable features include support for writing 64-bit graphical user interface applications, an automated backup utility called Time Machine, support for Spotlight searches across multiple machines, and large revisions to most core operating system components."
Posted by Bill Trippe at 9:52 AM
July 17, 2007
The Dramatic Unity of Huckleberry Finn
ResearchBuzz offers up a nice find: The Ohio State University Press Makes Dozens Of Books Free
The Ohio State University Press has announced that it will be making “certain books” available for free download from its site. (You’ll need a PDF reader.) The books are available at here . There are actually over 60 books here, from Daniel Aaron’s Cincinnati: Queen City of the West, 1819–1838 to John Harold Wilson’s Court Satires of the Restoration. Click on the book title for additional information about the book and PDF files of various chapters. The books I looked at were out of paper print but still had very assertive copyright reminders.What I did NOT see was any way to actually search the content, so here’s the Google query you want: keyword inurl:books site:ohiostatepress.org. Add intitle:book title to the search if you want to restrict your results to a specific text.
If you want to go right to the Huck Finn book referenced in the title, click here.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 11:10 PM
July 15, 2007
London
"Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
— Samuel Johnson
Posted by Bill Trippe at 1:02 PM
