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GeneaNet : Community : Genealogy Blog | Sunday May 11, 2008 | |
We wish you all a Happy New Year 2008!
You can find a large selection of sites on the web that offer you to send postcards for greetings, birthday, love, etc. Most of them are free but not so interesting.
It’s freedom’s birth certificate.
And, if you have a spare $30 million, you could have the Magna Carta hanging from your kitchen wall.
The only surviving edition in private ownership is going under the hammer Dec. 18 in New York as the most important document Sotheby’s has ever sold.
“Absolutely, it is,” said David Redden, the auctionhouse’s vice chairman. “This is the beginning of liberty, democracy and freedom. If you went back in time to find out where it all began, this is it.”
The 2,500 Latin words, handwritten in 1297, long before the Boston Tea Party, are the closest thing Britain has to a written constitution.
No one would set a scrapbook filled with pictures and memories on the tombstone of a loved one. But what about a high-tech, weatherproof version, with digital images powered by a solar cell?
The Vidstone Serenity Panel is groundbreaking. Utilizing specially patent-pending technology, this solar-powered panel provides families with the option of viewing a custom-created multimedia tribute at a loved one’s place of rest. This 7″ LCD Panel attaches to most upright or slanted gravesite monuments, including gravestones, mausoleums and columbariums. At the mere touch of a button, a 5 to 8 minute video plays on the screen, recounting the most precious and poignant memories of a loved one.
Georgia Harper has completed a blogging experiment entitled Mass digitization - Changing copyright law and policy.
Table of Contents:
• The effect of mass digitization projects on copyright law and policy.
• All quiet on the legislative front, while business is rockin’.
• Will Google Book Search change anything?
• Ok, Ok — DRM and long terms were a big mistake; now what?
• Search engines make sense of our massively digitized world, and make good law in the process.
• Rescuing orphans from obscurity.
Be sure to check out the Project Resources page!
SellMyDna.com offers to help you sell a sample of your DNA to a research company, New Line Genetics, who will then obtain a patent for it. They pay $5000!
SellMyDNA.com does not condone the patenting of other’s DNA without their permission. However, what better way to surprise your loved ones for a birthday or holiday event than giving the gift of $5,000 and the knowledge that their genetic material is helping to enhance scientific research!
However SellMyDna.com is not a real company, as you can find out if you dig deep enough into it’s site and come across the disclaimer: “these sites are a satirical “what if” pertaining to something that, for all intents and purposes, could be a reality in the not-so-distant future.”
After more than 60 years the archives of the International Tracing Service have become accessible to the public. Historical researchers and other interested people can now examine archives and documents from the Second World War at the Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany. Previously such access was granted only to the victims of Nazi persecution and their next of kin. The archives contain over 50 million information regarding the persecution, exploitation and extermination of millions of civilians by the Nazis.
More... "Nazi Documents Open to Public for the First Time" »
