MetaFilter posts tagged with scan

Looky Here

fandango_matt — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:45:47 -0800

Say hello to the newest police method for human identification: iris scanning. The Alameda County Sheriff's Office is preparing to become the first public agency in the Bay Area to scan the irises of convicted sex offenders.

Open Content Alliance Digitizes Library Collections

richards1052 — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:05:21 -0800

The Open Content Alliance poses a threat to Google and Microsoft's competing library digitization projects. OCA was founded by the Internet Archive, whose main claim to fame is the Wayback Machine, designed to archive the internet's web history. OCA's mission is to open the nation's library collections to universal web search by digitizing books and making them as widely accessible as possible. A number of major library systems, including the Boston Public Library and Smithsonian, have refused to sign up with competing ventures by Microsoft and Google because they do not provide for universal access to digitized books. These commercial ventures prohibit books being accessed by competing search engines. So far, 80 libraries and research institutions have signed on with Open Content Alliance. They must pay for the scanning of their books while Google and Microsoft offset that cost for their participating institutions. See also Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web

Microsoft Live Book Search

stbalbach — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:44:35 -0800

Microsoft releases Microsoft Live Search Books (beta), a third major project to scan public domain books behind Google books and the pioneering Archive.org. Content is pre-1927 editions of public domain works. Live Search blog has (slightly) more info and lots of general reactions pro and con.

Super-Apes and Fruit Pies

rhapsodie — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 20:36:58 -0800

The best Spider-Man story evar has super-apes and fruit pies. You can't ask for much more. [via]

Google, the Library

Civil_Disobedient — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 01:15:26 -0800

Google to team up with the University of Michigan and Harvard University to make their extensive libraries available online. According to the agreement, Google will make available all books in the public domain; the universities can put the material to whatever use they see fit. Others have made attempts before, but none with the sheer might of Google. [via /.]

southisup — Sun, 26 May 2002 23:45:16 -0800

Safety of MRI scans - annoying and temporary free registration required.
If movement whilst being scanned may not be safe, then what about the heart, lungs, blood and even a foetus? You can't keep those still.
Background: Of Mice & Magnets.

waxpancake — Wed, 20 Feb 2002 14:55:30 -0800

Get your snail mail by e-mail. This startup will scan in your postal mail, e-mail you the images, and snail mail back your e-mailed reply. All for a monthly fee of $30 (or $40 for color scans). They offer CD-ROM archiving and optionally weed out the junk mail. Anyone want to try this out and post their experiences?

sixdifferentways — Fri, 27 Apr 2001 14:16:52 -0800

Boobscan - the name sums it up. Personally I prefer this to the nobscan site posted the other day. Just sharing in the name of gender equality. (Warning: if it's not obvious enough, this link will lead to a site featuring nudity - maracas on the glass plate to be exact.)

betobeto — Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:10:54 -0800

Weenies galore: Pre-internet, it was used to drop your pants and sit down in the office photocopier. Now you can scan your nob and display it proudly to the rest of the world. Now I guess this is what they really meant about the Internet bringing great progress to the world...

(Disclaimer: kids probably shouldn't see this)