The Sunlight Foundation launches Open States , a site with searchable legislative data for all 50 states, D.C. and Puerto Rico. Open States is the only comprehensive database of activities from all state capitols that makes it easy to find your state lawmaker, review their votes, search for legislation, track bills and much more.
via Open States: search legislative data in all 50 states – Boing Boing.
It is really not much more complicated than this:
Google Pays Apple $1 Billion A Year To Be Default Search Provider On iOS.
$1 Billion a year to be Apple’s search default. So, I guess there is money to be made in search (and retrieval)…
…if you are Apple.
Google Pays Apple $1 Billion A Year To Be Default Search Provider On iOS [Report] | Cult of Mac.
Anniversary of Soviet Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan – 1989
The USSR’s target of withdrawal of all Soviet troops from Afghanistan by this date was essentially met, ending more than nine years of intervention in a civil war. Check out some of the “future” developments of the country afterwards through the WCC Library Collection.
Read closely –> Reporters Without Borders releases the Press Freedom Index 2013 report.
For all those who believe they do not need help with your writing, I present Tim Park’s argument for what an editor can do for you:
The editor’s job then becomes one of helping the writer to see where an unessential, perhaps unconscious departure from the norm is actually draining energy away from places where the text is excitingly unconventional. That is, the editor reminds an author that to construct a coherent identity he has to remember his relationship with society and with the language we share and cannot express ourselves without. To go out on a limb linguistically, accepting no compromise and creating an idiolect that really is entirely your own, may win awed admiration, as did Finnegans Wake, but will likely not attract many readers, and arguably does not allow for the communication of nuance, since all the ordinary reader will understand is that you are indeed off on a trip on your own…
In Praise of the Language Police by Tim Parks | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books.