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I’ve found a better way to keep track of bibliographies for my scientific research projects:

This is really sad news for book-lovers.  ANDROMEDA STRAIN is a nearly perfect book that created an entirely new genre of seemingly realistic technothrillers.

Michael Crichton, the million-selling author of such historic and prehistoric science thrillers as “Jurassic Park,” “Timeline” and “The Andromeda Strain,” has died of cancer, his family said.

He died Tuesday in Los Angeles at age 66 after a long battle with the illness.

Hello, we are a republic.

Op-Ed Columnist - Here the People Rule - NYTimes.com
Politics in a democracy are always “vulgar” — since democracy is rule by the “vulgus,” the common people, the crowd. Many conservatives have never been entirely comfortable with this rather important characteristic of democracy.< /p>

This is really appalling.

Following his funeral, FBI agents called Anderson’s widow to say they wanted to search his papers. At the time, the FBI confirmed it wanted to remove any classified materials from Anderson’s archives, located at George Washington University, before they are made available to the public.

The government eventually backed off.

FBI chief called columnist a jackal, papers reveal - CNN.co

We will be releasing a fleet of “Nimble” books beginning January 20, 2009 on the theme:

{TOPIC} IN THE AGE OF OBAMA (or McCain).

Signed up so far:

• GLOBALISTAN IN THE AGE OF OBAMA (Pepe Escobar, Asia Times and Real News Network)
• THE STRUGGLE FOR MINDS AND WILLS IN THE AGE OF OBAMA (Matt Armstrong, Mountainrunner.us)
• THREATS IN THE AGE OF OBAMA by Michael Tanji of Threatwatch.org
• GLOBAL OPINION AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY IN THE AGE OF OBAMA by Dr. Nancy Snow of Syracuse University

CHRISTIAN CHALLENGES IN THE AGE OF OBAMA, PRIVACY POLICY IN THE AGE OF OBAMA, SCIENCE IN THE AGE OF OBAMA, and so on … limited only by your ingenuity!

This is an open invitation for proposals. The specs for the thematic books are:

• 8000-40,000 words (32 - 120 pages)
• Some repurposed material ok
• Edited collections ok
• Any political viewpoint ok
• Illustrations OK, either B&W or color
• Deadline is Jan. 1, 2008 for publication on  Jan. 20, but the window will be open for later submissions with pub dates up to June 2009.
• All authors will participate concurrently in Jan. 20 “wall of bloggers” rollout.
• Nimble Books standard contract.

This is the problem:

for not writing that Iran is an “existential” threat to Israel.

Bet on Israel bombing Iran

What many Americans miss is that Iran is a threat to Israel’s very existence, not an imagined danger used by politicians for political advantage.

Huge news!

http://code.google.com/apis/books/

Here’s what I’d like to see:

1) a “review shell” for all books in GBS — I note that one of the API commands enables developers to submit reviews for any GBS book
2) an “annotation shell” that provides page by page displays of books with page by page community annotations
3) A “slate ready” version of the book reader that prepares the book in PDF format for an E-Ink reading device (not the HTML-dumbed-down Kindle)
4) A “print me” application that works with the Espresso Book Machines deployed at my friendly neighborhood University of Michigan Library
5) an online reading application that lets publishers sell online access to 100% of a book’s content
6) a “mashup” tool that combines public domain maps and public domain text
7) a topical mashup tool that puts together everything GBS has on a topic (e.g. Napoleon’s victory at the battle of Marengo)

All this Windows stuff is great, but where’s Google Platypus (aka GDrive), the long-rumored Google “hard drive in the cloud”?

Official Google Blog: Google Desktop 5.8 for Windows: increased performance

• Don’t tie your proposal to the fact that there are tens of millions of baby boomers, or any other huge group. That’s too generalized an audience for me to address. I aim at niches.  It would be much more useful to discuss the sales histories of books on similar topics.   Historical sales data with 90-day and lifetime averages is available at TitleZ.com for free (no affiliation).