Here is CMU's "Million Book Project" .. the goal is to scan a million books to make them available on the web.
http://zeeb.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/LIT/Projects/1MBooks.html
The page includes a link to a rather detailed manual that makes one wonder how easy it will be to meet the goal.
It has been ten years since Project Gutenberg was started...
http://promo.net/pg/history.html
A huge amount of work for a volunteer project and they are still well under the 4000 mark.
So I have a low threshold for fun .. at the moment three ferrets are trying to get my attention. For a sense of what they are doing you can check out extremeweezils...
http://www.extremeweezils.com/fertflix.html
Many unedited ferret videos (this is for you Dave) that give a sense of the disorder they bring to a home.
SYSTRAN does machine translation and supplies engines to many of the online services.
http://www.systransoft.com/
One of the best games going is to connect the output and input channels for two languages and run a phrase through several cycles.
English/Dutch
The ferret is peaking out from under the refrigerator.
Het fret bereikt uit van onder de ijskast een hoogtepunt.
The fret reaches a peak from of under the refrigerator.
Het lijstwerk bereikt een piek van van onder de ijskast.
The list work reaches a pick of of under the refrigerator.
Het lijstwerk bereikt een oogst van van onder de ijskast.
The list work reaches a harvest of of under the refrigerator.
Many of the people who follow this blog are Mac users and a few are very new to the Mac (hi Jheri and Marc). Versiontracker is your friend for finding software updates, new software and user commentary.
http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/index.shtml
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