One thing about Google's Life magazine photo archive, which is both annoying and intriguing, is that the captions and tags don't always reflect a picture's subject very accurately. I keep returning to this collection to find novelties among its millions of images.

I was looking for photos by Allan Grant, who did lots of Hollywood work for Life, ( Read more... )

Rummaging again through the Google archive of Life, whl and I have found over two hundred photos depicting the filming of Destination Moon, the 1950 film for which Robert Heinlein collaborated on the screenplay, and served as technical advisor ( Read more... )

Speaking of Google, while they have added some magazines to Google Books, they don't seem to offer a list of which magazines are in there.

Users are left to reverse-engineer the list themselves. Eric Rumsey undertook this task. I made my own search before I found his blog entry, but he found more than I did. I can't compete with a crack ( Read more... )

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Wow.

Spotted this on BoingBoing.

If you are cruising, and you find something cool that's been put out at the curb, and you don't want to scrounge it yourself, you can assist fellow trashpickers. Shoot a photo of it. Then post it to the site where phonecam pictures are pinned to Google Maps of their street locations ( Read more... )

Remember this?

The ever-alert whl, who knows the area like the back of his hand, points out that I have planned our rendezvous, not for one of Panera Bread Co.'s many delightful cafes, but for their Giant Bakery Warehouse.

Oops.

While whl himself-- who also knows how to use Panera's Web storefinder, an improvement over punching the company name into ( Read more... )

I propose to meet the jetlagged tlunquist and her chauffeur grey_lensman immediately after he collects her at O'Hare this coming Saturday. There we will be the first in North America to hear an account of her whirlwind trip through the institutions of Korea ( Read more... )

The beta of Google Scholar is now online.I like their slogan: "Stand on the shoulders of giants." Robert K. Merton, master of otsoggery, would have approved ( Read more... )

I was demonstrating Dead Sea Googling in comments on another blog recently, and realized that I haven't seen anybody else talk about it.

( How to Dead Sea Google, limitations thereof, and suggestions for a couple of new sports )