DIGITIZING THE BRITISH LIBRARY

Posted on July 21st, 2011 by Joy Schwabach

Google ran into copyright trouble trying to digitize every American book, but they’re steaming ahead with an opening group of 250,000 out-of-print books (40 million pages) in the British Library (the national library). The books are dated between 1700 and 1870.

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GET A HUMAN

Posted on July 21st, 2011 by Joy Schwabach

GetHuman.com gives you phone numbers for actual human beings at banks, insurance companies, Facebook, etc. They also tell you if you have to say “representative” to get a human agent, dial “O,” or whatever other trick is needed. It even tells you the average time spent on hold. “Very helpful for reaching the IRS,” said one user.

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