News in Brief

London Lives is a fully searchable edition of 240,000 manuscripts from eight archives and fifteen datasets, giving access to 3.35 million names.

This could be rather nifty: Yahoo!PlaceFinder is a geocoding Web service that helps developers make their applications location-aware by converting street addresses or place names into geographic coordinates (and vice versa). You know, if you have nothing better to do. Or if you're a sailor.

YouTube has a a news feed. With honest to goodness news and not just monkeys eating cookies.

The Baldridge Research Library. And if you have to ask what a Baldridge is, you don't need to bookmark this link.

The Library of Congress is offering WWII sketches. Who doesn't love the LoC?

Census of Ireland 1901/1911

Finally, a useful online translator. Translates entire useful sentences into many different languages. At last, I can ask where the bathroom is the next time I'm in Canada.

If the pronunciation guide isn't enough for you, you can get an honest to goodness human being to help you out at Learn2Lingo

And, finally, something for everyone who owns a screwdriver.Now you can fix your iPod all by yourself at ifixit.com In all seriousness, ifixit offers repair manuals for just about everything around the house. Definitely bookmark this link.