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...mysterious metallic balloon thought to be carrying a Colorado boy had scarcely returned to Earth last week when a new website launched, its domain name asking the question that much of the nation was wondering: WhereIsBalloonBoy.com. Inspired by the disappearance of 6-year-old Falcon Heene - which authorities now believe was a hoax - the playful site featured question marks next to a picture of a bird (a falcon, naturally) and was updated twice more as the story developed. It later depicted a falcon poking out from a cardboard box, where the boy was found hiding in the Heenes' attic. Within...
...point of the site? To have a laugh, says its creator, Jonathan Percy, an online-advertising producer in San Francisco. Like many others, Percy was transfixed by the bizarre drama and bought the domain name for $9.95 within minutes of the balloon's landing. "There's something kind of funny about a website that just has one single little purpose like that," he says. "I always laugh when I see those." (Read "A Brief History of Do-It-Yourself Ballooning...
...seen shelves since before 1923, then the Harvard Book Store might be just the place for you. Beginning this Friday, customers can use the store’s new “Espresso Book Machine” to select a book from millions of titles now in the public domain that will be printed and bound right on the spot, presumably akin to the way that a coffee machine instantly fills a cup of coffee. Needless to say, the new machine, which works in conjunction with Google Books, is a fantastic innovation as useful as it is unbelievable...
...Espresso Book Machine—produced by New York-based firm On Demand Books—has been rolled out to a select few stores to date, but the one at Harvard Book Store will be the first with access to the 2 million public-domain texts digitized by Google, which also announced a deal with On Demand last Thursday...
After the unveiling on Sept. 29, Harvard Book Store customers will be able to order a printed copy of Google’s titles or On Demand’s 1.6 million works—all in public domain because they were copy-righted before...