Short Takes: News From All Over: December 4, 2003

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Uganda Digital Bookmobile Hits the Road
From the rumbling bowels of a four-wheel drive diesel van, books are brewing life into this sub-Saharan African country. The bookmobile, equipped to print books from the more than 30,000 available in the public domain collection of the Internet Archive, will help to alleviate Uganda's scarcity of books for schoolchildren. -- Adam Overland
http://www.anywherebooks.org/

Not Who is in, But Where it is: Grant's Tomb
Find the graves of those passed, from more than 4.9 million listings. Browse the 'popular searches' (oh, to be popular in death, if not life!) and read bios of the famous, or infamous, such as Al Capone, buried in Cook County, IL. Grant too, is in his tomb; located at General Grant National Memorial, New York, NY. -- AO
http://www.findagrave.com/

Satellite Art
Today's hot new artist is a satellite. An array of astonishing Earth-from-above images is on display at the EROS Data Center web site. Researchers from the center selected the most arty pics from their usual satellite images. But unlike the stuff for sale in galleries, these earthy art pieces are affordable. -- Katharine Sandiford
http://edcw2ks15.cr.usgs.gov:8090/ImageGallery/SilverStream/Pages/pgcollectiondisplay.htmlThe Gender Genie
Have you ever wondered if Shakespeare was really a woman? According to Gender Genie, she was. Just paste any text into this computer program and it will tell you the gender of its author with 80% accuracy. -- KS
http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html

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