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What's your favorite opening line of a book?
James Stanbridge, Cheryl Jones, αnnα vαȵ scoyoç and 42 other people liked this
"We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold."
- laura x
That would have been mine too.
- Jàson Puçkett
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
- laura x
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."
- D0r0th34
"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it." I have so many!
- laura x
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." [One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ]
- Pierre Lindenbaum
"On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays it was Court Hand and Summulae Logicales, while the rest of the week it was the Organon, Repetition, and Astrology."
- Catherine Pellegrino
"The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel."
- Steve is older than ever
"In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit" is pretty good.
- Steve is older than ever
Catherine's +1
- D0r0th34
Does it have to be a single sentence? Or can we define a "line" as more than one sentence?
- Katy S
Yes, I love Catherine's. And Pierre's. And Katy, I think you can define it however you like.
- laura x
"Marley was dead, to begin with."
- Chris Z.
Ooh, yeah, if it's multiple sentences, I like the openings to Notes from the Underground, Invisible Man, and Trainspotting. :)
- Rachel Walden
Yeah, I was tempted to quote the whole opening paragraph, up to the part where it starts going on about the governess's wound.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Children's Book (Margaret Mahy's The Haunting): "When, suddenly, on an ordinary Wednesday, it seemed to Barney that the world tilted and ran downhill in all directions, he knew he was about to be haunted again."
- Katy S
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
- Abigail
YA Book (Pratchett's The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents): "But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats."
- Katy S
Catherine, is that T H White? Steve, there was a note on boingboing a few months ago about how "dead channels" have changed from the static I grew up with to the clear blue that kids today see
- DJF
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Other (Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan): "Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around its outer walls. They sprawled over the sloping arch, each one half way over its neighbour until,...
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- Katy S
Oh! Oh! "So there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians."
- Rachel Walden
"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times..."
- Alex Scoble
"The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed."
- Yolanda
DJF: Yep, the Sword in the Stone.
- Catherine Pellegrino
"Dildo, that's what my old man called me. Dildo Dunphy."
- Oracio
Yolanda! YES!
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
from fftogo
A screaming comes across the sky.
- Wayne Loftus
"The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed sub-category. He's got esprit up to here. Right now he is preparing to carry out his third mission of the night. His uniform is black as activated charcoal, filtering the very light out of the air. A bullet will bounce off its arachno-fiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door, but excess perspiration wafts through it like a...
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- Jàson Puçkett
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider'd how much depended upon what they were then doing;—that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his...
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- Glen Campbell, B.A.
In the last years of the Seventeenth Century there was to be found among the fops and fools of the London coffee-houses one rangy, gangling flitch called Ebenezer Cooke, more ambitious than talented, and yet more talented than prudent, who, like his friends-in-folly, all of whom were supposed to be educating at Oxford or Cambridge, had found the sound of Mother English more fun to game...
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- Wayne Loftus
When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.
- Steve is older than ever
+1 Aden and Steve.
- Jàson Puçkett
I'm so enjoying the vision of everyone running around literally in the stacks or figuratively in Google Books. . .
- laura x
+1 Million Laura X. Mine: "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." (Edit: +1 Million to Yolanda too!)
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
"I never thought it would happen to me."
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.
- Wayne Loftus
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
AARDVARK (70 Deram Nova SDN 17) - AARDVARK (LP)......................£130 . (It's the first entry in the Record Collector's Price Guide)
- Iain Baker
"Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantlepiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle and rolled back his left shirtcuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist, all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture marks. Finally, he thrust...
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- Katy S
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." Neuromancer
- Alex Scrivener
Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun of York; / And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house / In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
- Steve is older than ever
Chandler didn't write opening lines, he wrote opening paragraphs. But that's because his sentences are never long.
- DJF
DJF, is that from a "Friends" novelization? ;)
- Steve is older than ever
"Brother Francis Gerard of Utah might never have discovered the blessed documents, had it not been for the pilgrim with girded loins who appeared during that young novice's Lenten fast in the desert."
- DJF
DJF - I LOVE that novel. Now I'm going to have to dig it out of my books and re-read it.
- Katy S
Nonfiction (Aristotle's On Rhetoric): "Rhetoric is the counterpart to Dialectic."
- Katy S
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
- RAPatton
from iPhone
I CELEBRATE myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you.
- Steve C
"124 was spiteful. Full of a baby's venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children."
- Derrick
Glen Campbell, is that Tristram Shandy? It feels like it.
- DJF
@laura x, mine's the same as yours. :)
- Ayşe E.
Derrick - Beloved?
- Yolanda
Also, *fistbump* to Harvey, Sean, and RAP.
- Yolanda
Steven Lawson: :P
- DJF
The first one is Tristram Shandy; the second is Winnie The Pooh.
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
"Data communication has become a fundamental part of computing."
- Todd Hoff
+1 to Jason. Beat me to it.
- Jason Wyttenbach
"The gutters of Manhattan teemed with the brackish slurry indicative of a significant though not incapacitating snowstorm three days prior, making it seem that God had tripped over Hoboken and spilled his smog-flavored slurpie all over the damn place."
- MikeAmundsen
"I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order. I cannot march up and down their ranks to pass them in review before a friendly audience. You need not fear any of that. Instead, I must ask you to join me in the disorder of crates that have been wrenched open, the air saturated with the dust of wood, the floor...
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- Katy S
"The world is everything that is the case." I have never quite grasped even that one line, but have always loved it.
- Steve is older than ever
Yolanda, yeah Beloved. Wrote my master's thesis on it. That book changed my life.
- Derrick
"I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies."
- Kirsten
Seconding Neuromancer. Gives me shivers every time I read it.
- Jason Griffey
from twhirl
The "great opening lines" thread is on io9, but the discussion about how the "dead channel" image has changed since Gibson wrote it is in the comments on BoingBoing: http://www.boingboing.net/2008...
- DJF
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- pea ♥ fierce as a woozle
"It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed." - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- Ryan Massie
"The primroses were over." (Watership Down; and mostly because it matches the last line.)
- Deborah Fitchett
By the ghost of Alfred Appel, how could I forget "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta."
- Steve is older than ever
I thought I'd see what the first line was to Murakami's "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle," one of my favorite novels. It is: "When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's _The Thieving Magpie_, which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta." Now that may not be a great first line, but it is a *perfect* Murkami sentence.
- Steve is older than ever
"When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon." James Crumley, The Last Good Kiss. (This one's actually rather famously a best first line among crime fic fans. Many can recite it by heart, even after many drinks.)
- barbara fister
"On morning of the day he disappeared, David Elliot awoke, as he did every weekday, at precisely 5:45 A.M."
- Steven Perez
"The deliverator doesn't take shit off of no one."
- Internet's Tad
"He was born with a gift of laughter, and a sense that the world was mad."
- Shevonne
'She was a black-eyed murderer.'
- Akiva Moskovitz
"She hurries from the house, wearing a coat too heavy for the weather. It is 1941. Another war has begun." + Pierre's too !!
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
"It is possible I already had some presentiment of my future..." Gene Wolfe - The Book of the New Sun, and "A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now." Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow.
- Christopher A Carr
"Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith."
- Bill Hooker
"It was the day my grandmother exploded." - Iain Banks, The Crow Road
- Cameron Neylon
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“One summer afternoon Mrs. Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to...
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- 趙美鈴 (Con Wiebrands)
"If you're going to read this, don't bother" - Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
- Louis Simoneau
and @Shevonne, gotta love Sabatini. Captain Blood may have been the most fun I've ever had reading a novel.
- Louis Simoneau
"The story so far:" - Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- teh Dork Knight
"In a hole there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."
- Peter Bromberg
"Tyler gets a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun into my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die." - Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk; and "It began as a mistake." - Post Office by Charles Bukowski (the king of one-liners)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Do poems count? "April is the cruelest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain."
- Victor Ganata
"in the beginning,"
- chaz2b
"to wound the autumnal city." — Samuel Delany, Dhalgren. I read this book right after the 9/11 attacks, so that line has etched itself deep into my brain.
- Victor Ganata
@Louis Yes! Sabitini is amazing. It's funny why I read "Scaramouche." It's cause of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," and I'm glad that I did. At the time it came out, it was competing with Dumas' "Counte of Monte Cristo."
- Shevonne
"I, Nephi, having been born of goodly parents..."
- Josh Haley
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chapter one
- (jeff)isageek
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. (S. Beckett - Murphy)
- diego morelli
"Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood, where the right way was lost."
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
"It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out!" - with a respectful nod towards Snoopy
- Morgan Haley
"We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck." from Feed by M. T. Anderson
- Katy S
"Congratulations on your decision to join the forces of darkness..."
- Amber, Random Time Lord
Agree with Abigail. LOVE the opening line of Pride and Prejudice.
- Lis Miller
Just to be difficult... my favorite closing line of any book... "Do not jump into your automobile next June and rush out to the canyon country hoping to see some of that which I have attempted to evoke in these pages. In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone...
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- Jason
Jason, as I recall that's the last line of the preface. Of course, I did exactly what he says not to do, but I still love living in the West.
- laura x
"On a Thursday night in early autumn she nearly committed adultery, was within minutes of consummating it, or within touches, kisses; it was difficult to measure by time or by her mouth and tongue and hands, or by his." -Timing of Sin by Andre Dubus
- Meredith
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."
- αnnα vαȵ scoyoç
laura x - yes! i didn't have a copy here... i just googled the text.. I couldn't remember if it was the preface or the ending of the whole book.
- Jason
"When shall we three meet again? In Thunder , Lightning or in Rain?" "When the Hurlyburly's done." "When the battles Lost and Won." "That will be ere the Set of Sun."
- Marg Uerite
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
- Nathan Jelf-Mannion
"Holy $#|+!"
- Aaron the Librarian
'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.'
- Matt Groshong
Anyone interested in collaborating on an "advanced" 23 Things project for librarians? I'm thinking it'd deal with APIs, data migration and mash-ups, content/collection management systems, web development, and the like. Y'know, shit I wish I was more proficient at right now.
mita, John Fink, 趙美鈴 (Con Wiebrands) and 9 other people liked this
Wow! That totally sounds like something I need, too. I'd love to help any way I can.
- Kendra K
excellent. i can't think of a better place than FF to start generating a list of "things" that we could work on. pile 'em on, folks.
- J450N
Various LSW types have talked about this in the past--increasing actual tech proficiency among the already web-savvy--but for some reason I don't recall anyone suggesting that we approach it as a 23 Things-style project. Maybe they did and I just don't remember. Anyway, good idea, and I'd be likely to participate in one way or another.
- Steve is older than ever
Well, I think APIs, data migration, and mash-ups are a pretty good start. I know I have lots of ideas for mashups are go beyond simple RSS feeds and geotagging info. Maybe something with Drupal?
- Kendra K
Rudiments of the command line for *nix. Setting up an Apache/MySQL/PHP sandbox on a local computer.
- Steve is older than ever
great suggestion, Steve -- or building that sandbox via virtualization could provide the foundation for a number of additional "things" like: create a small digital library using Omeka/DSpace/etc.., build a simple Drupal website
- J450N
Ooh--I would absolutely be up for doing something like this!!
- Abigail
What about addressing some of the things Iris mentioned in her recent blog post: What's your DNS and how to deal with it etc...
- Abigail
I'm interested.
- cecily
I'd say Drupal/WordPress (because they're Open Source) and maybe even the OS version of Movable Type that's out there. I'm interested in finding out more about programming in Ruby or Python. I'm working my way through a Python tutorial now, but I need to know how the parts all fit together.
- cecily
Something else that would be cool for people to know is how to set up your own development sandbox on your computer using LAMP/MAMP/XAMPP.
- cecily
Cecily, jinx. ;)
- Steve is older than ever
That's what I get for not reading all the comments before posting. :)
- cecily
*Excellent* idea! "Learn to code enough to make some simple stuff (forms and the like) for your site" might be good (says she who is trying to do just that). Refurbishing old computers with some flavor of Linux? Any of the final project assignments Dorothea has used for her classes.
- laura x
Yup. I'm happy to pitch in with setting up wordpress - finding themes, simple theme adaptation, plugins u need and how to find them; how to set up a LibX toolbar ( although that is easy peasy if u just sit down for 1/2 hr and follow instructions. Wd like to do hands on create something with yahoo pipes, setting up xamp/lamp; installing kete
- Kathryn says love n peace
from iPhone
I'd dearly love to participate in something like that. Hm, obviously I could do Zotero, or work with Kathryn on LibX. I'm not so hot on the server-side stuff but would love to learn more about it.
- Jàson Puçkett
Between what I'm seeing here and what Steve said has been discussed by LSW, I think we have the foundation for something pretty interesting. I'd be glad to coordinate this and get all the right people on board to share their respective areas of expertise. Most importantly, what the hell do we call this thing? "The Next 23 Things?" "23 Weeks?" "28 Days Later?"
- J450N
See this post of mine (especially the comments) and Meredith's post that I linked to: http://stevelawson.name/seealso...
- Steve is older than ever
I'd be interested in learning some of this stuff, though maybe not all. I'm interested in Koha/Drupal integration, other Drupal integration stuff.
- Laura Norvig
Very interested.
- MegvMeg
I'm interested!
- Deborah Fitchett
adding a "me too please"
- suelibrarian
Me three! Also, it might be too basic for you guys, but making more dynamic webpages (PHP, Javascript) would be interesting, too. Basic upkeep/commands for sys admins? (Says the person who was handed a server without any training).
- Jaclyn
Jaclyn, I can fudge my way around basic javascript, but so far I've only used php for the simplest possible include function so that'd be interesting for me.
- Deborah Fitchett
How much does an annual library subscription to the top 20 closed-access journals cost? Lets start a virtual library for non-scientists.
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My guess would be on the order of $25-50,000 per year. The UC OSC maintains a curated list of price info for about 3000 of the "top scholarly journals" (http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/journal...). The average list price is about $1250/title (http://www.sennoma.net/main...), but I would expect the "top 20" to be more expensive than average.
- Bill Hooker
Two potential problems: first, 20 journals doesn't get you very far -- there are more than 20,000 to choose from; and second, how do you determine the "top 20"? We have had many, many conversations around here on this topic...
- Bill Hooker
I was niavely thinking we could pick based on eigenfactor ranking. Maybe we could afford many more than 20 - it all depends on how much the licenses could be negotiated for and the tension between number of subscribers and subscription cost. How much do alumni organization (that include access to the Uni library) subscriptions typically cost?
- Mackenzie Cowell
from iPhone
Why do scientists keep playing hostage to the copyright bandits that pistol-whipped their publicly-funded intellectual property from them to begin with? Let's consider the grey option, not too seriously, just as a fun literary idea: One could use existing hashes (pubmed ID, DOI, etc.) and paper databases (pubmed) to build a "swedish-hosted" bittorrent database of every article ever...
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- Anselm Levskaya
Anselm, good idea. We should focus from the beginning on empowering researchers from the BRIC. A successful international sci-pirate bay will be helpful in demonstrating the size and desire of this otherwise hidden market. Like how napster and bittorent forced the music industry to develop iTunes and Amazon MP3.
- Mackenzie Cowell
from iPhone
Anselm -- by "patchwork of charitable proxies" I assume you mean HINARI/OARE/AGORA, recently rebranded "research4life (http://www.research4life.org). They provide access to almost 9,000 journals to researchers in qualifying countries (http://www.research4life.org/Pages...). If someone were to try to put Mackenzie's idea into practice, that is a reasonable benchmark.
- Bill Hooker
Bill -- HINARI/OARE/AGORA is charming, but the fact is that they provide access to third world scientists in countries so third world they don't have any science to speak of. Most of my experience with developing science is in Chile, a country that does -not- qualify for these free access points and in truth has very little general access to journals that is not provided by individuals...
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- Anselm Levskaya
I don't really disagree, Anselm; I was just using R4L as a benchmark for Mackenzie's idea. (Although I would add that even if a country doesn't have much research infrastructure it surely has some kind of health service, or at least some struggling doctors and nurses, for whom access to the primary health literature could mean a great deal.)
- Bill Hooker
The bittorent idea is interesting, though blatantly illegal -- I could see a role for civil disobedience... Just some thinking out loud: you'd need more greyhats -- there are 19 million documents in PubMed alone. You would also need to withstand the full legal and technological might of a $5 billion/year industry, since what you propose would, if successful, destroy traditional...
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- Bill Hooker
I like the pirate bay idea. A lot of people have a lot of PDFs stored for themselves already. I've been thinking along these lines for quite some time now, essentially since I started entering metadata into my Mendeley library. Now if one could get the PTP technology from PB and write an interface such that one could post your Mendeley library with metadata to the PTP network, one would have quite a sizable db to start with...
- Björn Brembs
Bill does have a good point about shooting ourselves in the foot with back-catalog digitization efforts. Unless your army of disobediant first-world grad students is ready to spend some time with a scanner, this isn't a no-harm process.
- Mr. Gunn
Can't we just rely on google for the back cataloging? I like the PDFbay Idea, although it's blatantly illegal, and I have no problem accessing every journal I could possibly want to read from my current university. There's also that pesky issue of PDF watermarking...
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
Google can't index a book existing only in paper form. They do have a digitization program, but I don't know how much support is has.
- Mr. Gunn
getarticles@googlegroups.com, run by http://contentliberation.com/, already demonstrates that at some scale, on-demand liberation of protected content works. We should think about how to build PDFbay on a foundation of on-demand liberation requests mediated by groups like getarticles. (I hear there is a similar friendfeed room?)
- Mackenzie Cowell
Content Liberation seem to want to describe what they do as civil disobedience, but it isn't. Quite apart from the issues of unintended harm that MrG and I have pointed out, I am not down with simple lawbreaking. If you break a law because you think it's unjust, you should be willing to accept the unjust consequences, using the whole process as a means to challenge and change the law....
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- Bill Hooker
The Refs Wanted room (http://friendfeed.com/referen...) operates deliberately and openly in the grey area between Fair Use and PR Nightmare for publishers who might want to prevent such activities. It's not clear that the room's activity is illegal, largely because it would be very difficult to demonstrate that it causes measurable harm to subscriptions. This grey status depends...
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- Bill Hooker
I gather that 2nd/3rd world distribution of article sets is already happening through the distribution of hard drives filled with indexed articles. 1.9E6*~5MB = 9.5TB. So it's not that big for modern storage media. A single drive would soon be able to hold it. I'd never recommend anyone in america or europe to post themselves up for legal annihilation by playing at revolutionary. But...
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- Anselm Levskaya
Google just dropped a bomb on the industry. We all knew this day was coming: Google (Chrome) OS: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009... (link via @niall)
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Epic, history changing news!
- Benjamin
What is the bomb? I don't get it.
- Dave Winer
Google OS mean google operating system like windows, that's the boob
- Benjamin
@Dave Winer: Lightweight OS, supported by a big player, built on standard tech. Nothing revolutionary, but the combo is like Google Docs to Microsoft Office.
- Matt Mastracci
Well its a start, might open up doors to a proper OS maybe something smooth like linux who knows but at least a start
- Benjamin
Chrome ran on Linux before this supposed earth shaker, right?
- Dave Winer
Holden: totally agree, re: bomb. It's an exciting project.
- Matt Mastracci
Dave: it does (sort of, thru development snapshots), but not in an officially released way. The combination of Chrome + Linux + Android's app/security models on a stack tuned for netbooks is the big thing, IMHO.
- Matt Mastracci
Also, combine all of Google's open-source components released recently (Gears, O3D, NativeClient [oops], GWT, etc.) and you start to build a compelling platform that's more than just plain web.
- Matt Mastracci
This sounds like the Sun/Java thin clients that were hyped years ago.
- Peter Axon
How is your relationship balance sheet? (and why it pays to be in the black) | Come Together - http://scottdrummond.org/2009...
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An interesting analysis of yesterday's David Armano's "Help Daniela" appeal on Twitter. It makes a lot of sense.
- Andrew
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