April 14, 2004

Caterina told me to

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

The Best American Science Writing 2003

We descend the Bodingo peninsula, an elevated ridge of land south of the park's border that runs down into Likouala aux Herbes swamps.
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A9 - The New Search

Amazon has released A9, a search engine that can search both the web, and within its books, simultaneously. Nifty.

One thing that's been getting a lot of press is how it presents your recent searches.

a9

Such an idea is hardly new. On August 29, 1999, I pointed out how Microsoft was doing the same with their support knowledge base.

From back in the day:

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