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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine - 0 views

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    Don't forget about the Internet Archive and especially the Wayback Machine in your research -- lots of good free stuff here, and you can look at what websites looked like years ago.
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The Internet's Save-the-Date: A Tiny Item in a UCLA Student Newspaper - 1 views

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    An item from UCLA's school newspaper from 1969 reporting that "A computer facility here will become the first station in a nation-wide network which, for the first time, will link together computers of different makes and using different machine languages."
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Coin » Use One Coin for All of Your Cards - 0 views

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    Sorry if this double-posts, I had to switch windows. So this is less "internet" and more "tech innovation", but it was so cool I just had to share it. This company has developed a piece of hardware (shaped exactly like a credit card), that can actually be swiped in credit card machines, that holds all of your personal credit, debit, and gift card information. You switch between cards using a button on the device, you add them to the card via a phone app and an attached card swiper, and as it's linked to your phone, it'll alert you if you get too far away from the card (in the case of leaving it on a table and walking away, or forgetting your wallet on the way out of the house, for example).
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Lego machine removes DRM from Kindle e-books - 0 views

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    Interesting article about how a lego mindstorm bot got rid of DRM on a kindle device.
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HowStuffWorks Videos "What is the future of libraries?" - 2 views

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    Video about one person's take on what libraries will be used for in the future. Very interesting opinion.
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    Hmm, interesting. The service she describes where libraries sell books is fairly rare, still, although it's made possible by a thing called an Espresso Book Machine that prints copied of ebooks: http://www.ondemandbooks.com/ I hate when I can't figure out the date of things. I even looked at the source code to try to find out when that video was recorded, but I couldn't. I did discover that the girl in the video (I love her sweater!) is one of the co-hosts of another How Stuff Works podcast called "Stuff You Missed in History Class" at http://shows.howstuffworks.com/stuff-you-missed-in-history-class-podcast.htm -- that might be useful! Certainly relevant. :) Their latest episode is about an 18th-century "Vampire Panic" in New England. Sign me up.
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    I listen to that podcast all the time!
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MARC standards - 0 views

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    These are the standards for machine readable catalouging for libraries. In addition to bibliographies, MARC's can also record other codes as well.
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Scanning Center Fire - Please Help Rebuild | Internet Archive Blogs - 0 views

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    "Fire in the Scanning Center" is a great caption for a photo. Glad no one was hurt, and that the Internet Archive continues to operate.
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