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Banned Books published by Google
Lens Hood Man writes "Marking the 25th anniversary of Banned Books Week, Google is inviting users to celebrate their freedom to read by making Banned Books available to all. From the Google Blog: "...you can use Google Book Search to explore some of the best novels of the 20th century which have been challenged or banned." Those books challenged this year include 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Lolita'."
China will just see a big photo of Mao when you try to load the books on Google. Maybe they could get a backdrop of the glowing fire from a pile of books being burned too!
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Similarly, explain the difference between formal and implicit polymorphism in C++.
HINT: both involve overloading of terms.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Great! I've been meaning to read up on some musical history.
This guy's the limit!
I guess this means that Google is going to be banned in Alabama libraries? I'm assuming they have libraries in Alabama.
Kidding! Of course they do.
Oh You POS
"I don't want to go on a rant, here, but America's foreign policy makes about as much sense as Beowulf having sex with Robert Fulton at the first battle of Antietam. I mean when a neo-conservative defenestrates it's like Raskolnikov filibuster deoxymonohydroxinate..."
"What the hell does rant mean?"
Whatever man, I spelled it write!
Or here...
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"