Testing of Search Engines for Grant Project

January 31, 2009 | Filed Under Public Domain | No Comments

I received the following e-mail from Scott Frey on January 29 and am posting it here for those who are interested. If you are interested please contact Scott directly as noted below: I’ve received a grant from the Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Grant Program to develop a search engine for law-related public domain electronic books (http://www.aallnet.org/news/newsdisplay.asp?nid=146). As part of the project, I’m seeking law librarians and other legal researchers to provide feedback on the searc

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Ready, set, go change the food system: A checklist for evaluating the new USDA’s first six months

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Above: National Agricultural Library archival image, shot from the Washington Monument in the mid-1920s; US Department of Agriculture greenhouses on the Mall are shown in foreground. The food system in this country has broken down like a rusty old tractor. Or more accurately, like a $250,000, brontosaurus-sized, air-conditioned, computer-controlled, herbicide-misting machine. Calories may be cheap and abundant, but actual food is growing scarcer. The side effects can be seen in a populace growi

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Max Tundra, Darren Hanlon, SpaceCamp, Soft Pack, Ida Maria & more in this Week in Indie

January 31, 2009 | Filed Under Public Domain Software | No Comments

by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD: Max Tundra - “Which Song” (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Max Tundra - Playboy (Hot Chip) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Max Tundra - promo mix 2008 (MP3) Max Tundra Enigmatic Brit artist Max Tundra has been releasing music for 10 years but only just released his third album, Parallax Error Beheads You, back in October — his first in six years. One of the reasons for being such a slowpoke probably has something to do with the way he makes them:The main technology behind this and all of my alb

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75 Items in prep4md's Public Domain Medical Photos pool

January 31, 2009 | Filed Under Public Domain Photos | No Comments

Medical Public Domain Photos on Flickr Who would like to join? Who would like to share?

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Plan to alter historic Peoria house causes stir (Peoria Journal Star)

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Peoria has one authenticated Frank Lloyd Wright house, and recently jackhammers tore into sections of the venerable Prairie Style structure and into the foundation of the neighborhood.

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Road To The IGF: Kranx's Musaic Box (Gamasutra)

January 30, 2009 | Filed Under Public Domain Songs | No Comments

[Gamasutra is talking to this year's Independent Games Festival finalists, this time interviewing KranX Productions' Alexander Porechnov about Musaic Box, a hidden object game featuring puzzles that have players arranging blocks to complete music arrangements -- nominated for the Excellence in Design and Audio awards.] At a glance, Musaic Box’s casual “hidden object” gameplay might not seem …

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Max Tundra, Darren Hanlon, SpaceCamp, Soft Pack, Ida Maria & more in this Week in Indie

January 30, 2009 | Filed Under Public Domain Software | No Comments

by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD: Max Tundra - “Which Song” (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Max Tundra - Playboy (Hot Chip) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Max Tundra - promo mix 2008 (MP3) Max Tundra Enigmatic Brit artist Max Tundra has been releasing music for 10 years but only just released his third album, Parallax Error Beheads You, back in October — his first in six years. One of the reasons for being such a slowpoke probably has something to do with the way he makes them:The main technology behind this and all of my alb

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Best Technology Site To Shutdown in 2008

January 30, 2009 | Filed Under Public Domain Movies | No Comments

Stage 6 I don’t know about the rest of you, but when Stage 6 shutdown last year, I think I almost cried. There just wasn’t another site that could match the breadth of videos that you could watch in hi quality and automatically save to your computer if you were so inclined too (which really happens automatically, and I always made sure this just happened with the public domain movies…which was a great channel) Easy to find videos - tv, music, film - it had everything you could ever want,

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