The Big Machine

Today we had a series of big machines around our house - they probably have proper names, but I'm going to refer to them as big drill, paving thing, and thing that belches out asphalt like poop from a goose.

I was trying to catch up with an old friend of mine (visiting from Germany) but the jackhammers drove us away to greener and quieter pastures. Here's a pic of one of the big machines. I'd attach a soundtrack, but you'd have to crank your speakers all the way.

Rollyo - Thang No. 12

Rollyo has been on my list of 2.0 tools, but this is my first time playing with it. I started out in the Public Domain e-books Rollyo and looked for some vague search terms (mystery book) and specific ones (creative commons - which pulled up licensing agreements for shared works - IPL had the best results there).

Then I searched for Ron Howard (I'm quite a fan of Arrested Development) on sapllearns media Rollyo. Because Howard is just a prolific and gifted actor/director/you name it, the search results were massive - but again I liked the ability to rope in results by picking one site and grouping my results. I can definitely see how Rollyo could be useful for Reference - but like all Web 2.0 tools, something that needs to be refined and edited with frequency.

So I decided to add do my own Rollyo for art history. I set up my own Rollyo account under bibliosopher and grabbed some expansive art history sites (like Smithsonian's SIRIS, Artcyclopedia and more). It created my own search rollyo in less than 10 minutes. The search results so far are pretty good - if you like art history or want to learn more, come and play:

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