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- thesmartpenguin, on 04/21/2009, -0/+17direct link:
http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/ - Grazfather, on 04/21/2009, -2/+15I spent 3 seconds on there and got bored.
- goldsaturn, on 04/21/2009, -2/+11Funnest? Really?
- duewydo, on 04/21/2009, -1/+6Reminds me of http://digg.com/d1pAOp google 2084. If we are searching in time, can it tell me the future?
- TrentDeux, on 04/21/2009, -2/+7I know another web site that is a "Glorious, Intriguing Time Sink"...
- Gruul, on 04/21/2009, -0/+4Nice score, it took me 4....
- kylere, on 04/21/2009, -0/+4Wish they had done more data dumping for earlier news, this resource combined with scans from major papers back to the turn of the (last) century would rock
- aparatoc, on 04/21/2009, -0/+3Time stops at 1400.
- JohnH91, on 04/21/2009, -1/+3This is pretty cool, But how long before we can street view back in time?
- jitneyrider, on 04/21/2009, -1/+3Glorious - every time I see or hear this word Will Farrell pops into my head...
- drex8, on 04/21/2009, -0/+2Talking about Google News, has anyone checked out this new "Add a comment! New!" option to Google News? http://www.google.com/support/news/comments/bin/re ... It's sure kind of weird with all those kind of information they require before submitting a comment, but I guess that's how Google operates.
And be sure to check out the Terms before submitting the comment, which says "By submitting this comment, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to copyrights, rights of publicity, and any other legal rights necessary to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform... bla bla bla"
There goes Google again with its Chrome like TOS. Sigh. - zip000, on 04/21/2009, -0/+2I was just noticing that.
...well, actually it starts there. - kirbs2001, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1This post is dead accurate. TIME SUCK WARNING!!!
To Google: Horizontal scroll bar, please. - nikstr, on 04/21/2009, -1/+2love it.
- inactive, on 04/21/2009, -0/+1I ignored the description to my peril.
Nothing will be completed for the next 24 hours as I must know what was up in 1697. - johnwiz, on 04/21/2009, -0/+1this has some serious potential, can't wait to see it when its done.
- chadell, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1news junkies and infomaniacs' paradise!
- haiduz, on 04/21/2009, -0/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd_Dwyer
This certainly made for an interesting press conference
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On January 22, 1987, the day before his sentencing, Dwyer called a press conference to "provide an update on the situation". Many expected Dwyer to announce his resignation from office.
At the conference, an agitated and nervous Dwyer once again professed his innocence, and declared that he would not resign as state treasurer. Those attending would hear his final words:[4]
I thank the good Lord for giving me 49 years of invigorating challenges, stimulating experiences, many happy occasions, and, most of all, the finest wife and child any man could ever desire. Now my life has changed, for no apparent reason. People who call and write are exasperated and feel helpless. They know I'm innocent and want to help. But in this nation, the world's greatest democracy, there is nothing they can do to prevent me from being punished for a crime they know I did not commit. Some who have called have said that I am a modern day Job. Judge [Malcolm] Muir is also noted for his medieval sentences. I face a maximum sentence of 55 years in prison and a $300,000 fine for being innocent. Judge Muir has already told the press that he, quote, "felt invigorated" when we were found guilty, and that he plans to imprison me as a deterrent to other public officials. But it wouldn't be a deterrent because every public official who knows me knows that I am innocent; it wouldn't be a legitimate punishment because I've done nothing wrong. Since I'm a victim of political persecution, my prison would simply be an American gulag. I ask those that believe in me to continue to extend friendship and prayer to my family, to work untiringly for the creation of a true justice system here in the United States, and to press on with the efforts to vindicate me, so that my family and their future families are not tainted by this injustice that has been perpetrated on me.
At this point, Dwyer stopped with his prepared text and called to three of his staffers, giving each an envelope. One of the envelopes contained a suicide note to his wife. The second contained an organ donor card and other related materials. The third contained a letter to Pennsylvania Governor Robert P. Casey, who had taken office only two days before.
After handing out all three envelopes, Dwyer opened a manila envelope and withdrew a .357 Magnum revolver, advising those in the crowd, "Please leave the room if you think this will affect you." Those in attendance cried out to Dwyer, pleading with him to put the gun down ("Budd, don't do this!", "Budd, this is not right!" and "Budd, listen to me!" can be heard off-screen). Some tried to approach him. "Don't, don't, don't, this will hurt someone," he warned.[5] Amid the cry of "Budd, Budd, Budd!" Dwyer put the gun barrel into his mouth and pulled the trigger. He collapsed against a wall in a sitting position, blood pouring from his nose and an exit wound at the top of his head, all in front of five television news cameras while the people were screaming and using profanity in shock. Dwyer was declared dead at the scene at 11:31 a.m. EST.[5] - akurashy, on 04/21/2009, -0/+1Hm... if that is true then digg should start worrying of users spending more in news timeline ...
too bad they don't have off-beat section :( - shayben, on 04/21/2009, -0/+1I know this girl that is doing her masters in CS, she is using neural networks to try and predict future news by detecting correlation between search terms using this tool. How awesome would it be to to actually be able to predict future trends?? :D
I also think this tool is otherwise useless. - Metasquares, on 04/21/2009, -0/+1"Similar images" looks like Google is finally starting to move into context-based image retrieval (of course, it could still just be clustering the tags rather than the images themselves). With all of the CBIR systems out there, I never understood why search engines didn't begin picking it up.
- FredFredrickson, on 04/21/2009, -0/+1Is it just me or is Google News really hard to find anything on? Whenever I want to read more about something I heard a snippet about earlier, and I try looking for it on Google News, all I get is a bunch of garbage from 3-4 years ago.
- travisc1, on 04/21/2009, -0/+0Your organization's Internet use policy restricts access to this web page at this time.
Reason: The Websense category "Proxy Avoidance" is filtered.
URL: http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/ - ABJ974, on 04/21/2009, -2/+2Great way to view the news. I'm digging it.
- lovek, on 04/21/2009, -1/+1More importantly, how long before we can timeline view FORWARD in time? Now *that* would be handy.
- petong, on 04/21/2009, -1/+1funnest is not a word.
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