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Just One Page a Day
Charles Franks writes "Two years ago I started building an online proofreading system as a way to help Project Gutenberg (PG) get more books online: Distributed Proofreaders (DP). The concept is simple, we scan books and load the image and OCR output for each page into the online system. Next, proofreaders compare the OCR text to the image making any corrections as necessary, each page gets looked at twice. Finally the output from the site is massaged into a PG e-text and submitted to PG for posting to the archive. Now, nearly 600 books and a lot of PHP code later, we have snuggled into our new home which is graciously provided by the Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg. Now that we have 'real' resources available to us (the original site ran on a Pentium 200 over my 128kbps upstream cablemodem) I would like to invite the online community at large to help us put even more books online. To this end I would like to ask everyone to do 'Just One Page a Day'. Thank you, Charles Franks"
The CSLib Menace strikes again!
BSD is dying.
I feel this project makes a lot of sense, but it'd be interresting to know who decides which books get converted into electronic form.
I'm sure interrest could be affected if people could, say, vote on what would be converted. Or do I make any sense?
.: Max Romantschuk
So when the FBI installs a packet sniffer on your network, will you be allowed to tell anyone or will the same rules that apply to brick and mortar libraries apply to you.
Insert sig here (slashdot) Insert cig here (Lewinsky)
You're next on my troll sniping list. Thought I'd give you a heads up.
Psycho Bitch Rants
Topic Of Interest: Britney Spears
I've "tolerated" her for enough until now. But my poor poor eyes had the misery of watching her soft porn debut entitled "Don't Let Me Be The Last to Know". Yes, we all know that her surgery enhanced body looks good with nothing on, but isn't that what late-nite HBO and Cinemax is for? That crocheted bikini top and non-existent shorts looked like rejects from Pamela Anderson's closet. Looks like she gave into the Survivor craze. The location of the shoot seems to be on a deserted tropical island, although I'll be the first to admit I wouldn't mind she got stranded there and never returned.
I think the implants burst and seeped into the part of the brain that controls her facial expression. Otherwise there's no real reason for her to crinkle her eyebrows at the camera when she's singing. Oh wait...aww...was Britney trying to seem "soulful" and "hurt"? That's so cute! But let's leave the job to people who have talent, okay? Oh what the hell, she's already taken over the jobs of people who have talent. I wonder how that guy felt about being in that video. If it's one thing I want to know about this video (other than how Britney is going to defend her "I'm a role model" attitude after this video), I'd like to know how many pills the guy downed after he shot the video.
Now how is Britney going to say that she's a role model for young girls? What, that expressing herself is something that all girls should do? Wait, I better shut up, who knows, her managers might look at this for ideas. Most people usually wait at least a few years before going from Toys'R'Us to Porn Stars Untied (and no, that is not a typo). I can deal with her saying that she is a good role model, because to aspiring hookers and strippers, she is. But you must REALLY be blind to still say she is after this video. But then again, stranger things HAVE happened, like her suddenly having an overnight growth spurt.
Topic of Interest: Fur It's fall, and soon people will be running out to buy new coats. Enter fur. I'll admit, I eat meat, I wear a down jacket, and I don't have a problem with leather. Because there's always a line of profit-and-loss for farmers, or what-have-you. But fur is wear I draw the line. Fur, unlike leather, is the only product from most animals. No one drinks mink's milk or eats fox meat (unless tallyho! means something to you). Fur trappers use extremely cruel and disgusting methods of killing animals that I think they should see how much they like before they try to it on an animal. How about for every animal they anally electrocute (yes, they do do that), fur trappers would have to be butt-fucked or have knight sticks and plungers shoved up their asses courtesy the LAPD and NYPD. They club baby seals to death, which should be punishable by the fur trappers getting a beating (to knock some sense into them, I guess) and possibly hiring some sumo wrestlers four times their weight and have them plop their asses on their heads until their brains (or lack thereof) ooze out. But that's just me. Cruel and unusual punishment does the body good!
Well, slashdotters are always looking for porn, so you could set up a "Poon for Nerds, Tang that matters" and call it "SlashPoon.org". I'm sure that'd get some attention from the editors.
Unless you believe those unspeakable rumors about Rob.
Are these copyrighted? damn I've read tons of paper about them and never actually read their original papers.
Besides, Michael's not a trolling flamebaiting cunt -- Seth Finkelstein is.
You are in the wrong website, dear goat.
idiots!
This is great, but it's even more addictive than the Kill Everyone Project. Though arguably not as worthwhile.
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