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New at the Archive

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Have you been to the Internet Archive yet?

The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

Recent additions to the Archive include: recordings of Franklin Roosevelt and the Grateful Dead’s 1993 concerts. For example:

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt asks Congress to declare war on Japan
Grateful Dead Autzen Stadium Eugene, Oregon August 21, 1993

If you are not familiar with the Archive go check it out. and if you are then go try out some of this new material.

Free Culture Discussion

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Read along with Lawrence Solum a he discusses Free Culture:

This is the first of eight posts on Lessig’s book–a sort of blogospheric book club. You are invited to read along, and to send your comments on the book, my posts, or on the comments of other readers.

The class reading schedule may be a bit agressive if you are not an academic (faculty or student) but if you are at all interested in intellectual property issues and the internet you will be well served to join in.
Via Lawrenc Lessig.
Update: Lawrence Lessig discusses the rationale for the free offering.
Update (3/31): Tech Law Advisor notes that a Wiki of Free Culture has been created.

New at Yahoo Maps

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I know there are others but Yahoo Maps has worked well for me for a long time.
They have just added a new feature called SmartView which allows you to quickly find different services that are located in the area of a specific address. The should save me quite a few trips to the yellow pages!
Via beSpacific who used 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW. as a test address. Give it a try.

I May Have to Buy a MAC

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This former MAC bigot switched to Windows machines many years ago: I have been surrounded by Windows machines at work for years and the schools where my kids attended and my wife works long ago ditched their Apple IIs and MACs.
Something like this may lead me back to a MAC. The price is right! I can’t count the times I have started to catalog my library and never finished. It keeps growing and I get no closer.
Does anyone know of a similar (function and price) program for a Windows XP machine?
Via Mike Silverman.