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Their joint occupation was basically an accident, according to Prescod-Weinstein. Fash and his blockmates had wanted to live in a quad, but when that plan fell through they decided to join with Prescod-Weinstein and her blockmates. This allowed them to procure a coed quint in which the two shared a room...
...used at www.westminsterlive.tv to link the text of proceedings in Britain's Houses of Parliament to Web broadcasts of them. And at www.speechbot.com, Compaq's experimental voice-recognition software is transcribing Web TV and radio programs automatically. "Online is the preferred environment for almost everybody at this point," says Quint. "It's the birth of the universal library, in a sense." Many years of construction remain before it can be inaugurated, but as the invisible Web swims into focus, we begin to glimpse the awesome scale of Tim Berners-Lee's vision...
...exploit some of the same expertise for free at www.profusion.com, where handpicked collections of resources are grouped and searchable by subject. More specialized and tightly focused search tools are the kind of solutions to the invisible Web's sprawl you can expect to see more of, says Barbara Quint, editor of Searcher, a journal for database professionals. "What you get are high quality sites, preselected directories and metadata [data about data] collections. They may be a minuscule proportion of what's on the Web, but hopefully they're the good stuff...
...discussion with students concerned about the Belltower's future that ultimately persuaded them to change their decision, the McCarthys said. "We will try to give earlier notice if we do conclude in the future that this large suite will have to be used as a quint," they said...
...celebrate the 25th anniversary of Jaws, Universal last week released a DVD version with such extras as a "Get Out of the Water!" trivia game and 10 minutes of deleted scenes. (When you see the one of Quint terrorizing an adolescent oboist, you'll understand what editors are for.) For the DVD-savvy who've seen one too many "Making of" featurettes, the following releases might just float your boat...