[TS] This Land: A Half Century of Memories That Wonât Stay Buried
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If a Plymouth Belvedere is in driving condition when it is unearthed on Friday, its headlamps will flicker across a different Tulsa, Okla.
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Behind the lens: A Times photographer's contemporaneous account from ground zero.
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When everything gets an API then everything you can imagine will be possible if you can write a script.  And sometimes, to give you an idea, all that has to happen is that a wall come down. The latest, most intriguing such wall was the paywall at the NY Times. Now all of a sudden we find the wealth of information published by the NY Times over many decades is available without tariff. More important, we can point into the archive. We've gotten so accustomed to the wall, that you actually have to think when it may be possible to go in there, as if it left behind a wall in our minds, even after the wall on the web is gone. For example, the first episode of Ken Burns's The War, an epic series about World War II from the American perspective, cited several NY Times articles. If you looked carefully you could see the dates, and the actual headlines, and then if you have a browser handy, as I do (I have an iPhone) you can actually read the article while the narrative continues. Today this is mostly a gimick, but I suspect as we get used to having history so available (like having a library microfilm machine, which I used to spend whole days playing with when I was a kid) it will change our sense of information, perhaps as much as anything else that's ever been on the web. Take movie reviews for example. What a thrill to be able to read a review of a movie that I love that came out in 1932! The reviewers back then were more forgiving, less sarcasting, more enthusiastic. Consider their review of the Hollywood Revue of 1929, a favorite of mine that I've only seen once (I'd pay for a DVD, if it were available). They loved audible movies (that's what they called them) as if the term "talkie" was as elusive as "podcast" was in the summer of 2004. Again, we've just scratched the surface. Wouldn't you like to have NY Times movie reviews integrated with Netflix? Or have Yahoo's movie rating service available on the NY Times site. And I have to wonder whether they really have gone all the way. You can't see the reviews unless you're logged in. Can Google's robots, therefore, see the movie reviews? Unless the've made some special arrangements, it seems not.  It would be helpful to get a technical guide to the newly hatched NY Times on the Web, or (as in the old days of software) a reviewer's guide, so we get some ideas of what to look at. Clearly a lot of work went into opening up the Times archive. I'm going to be in NY the week of October 8 and will have some time toward the end of the week. If anyone at the Times would be willing to spend some time with me reviewing what's now open, that would be helpful. In any case, at least the Times today is somewhat more available to be integrated into the fabric of the web. That's some progress. How much, remains to be seen. Postscript: Kottke did a great job of skimming the surface of the newly opened Times when it first came online, just one week ago today.
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The top spots offering a peek into the past.
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By Donna Borak Associated Press  WASHINGTON - For every generation in this country there has been a war. And with wars come millions of records that can shed light on family history, detailing everything from the color of soldiers' eyes to what their neighbors may have said about them.
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Comment is free: Marina Hyde: TV nostalgia, in the shape of a middle-aged Famous Five, reflects an anxiety that the present is another country.
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In the early 1950s one of my childhood passions was stamp collecting. The shifting contours of the British Empire meant that old countries seemed to be constantly in a state of flux.
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The pregnancies, the reality show, the parenting lessons -- their marriage is over, but we'll always have the memories
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A grinding floppy, a screeching modem, a clacking dot-matrix printer ... these nostalgic computing sounds bring back memories of simple, nerdy pleasures. Commentary by Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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The quest for local information has increased during the past decades. This involves research in documents and publications in archives and libraries.
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Like many people who lived through World War II in Europe, Edward Haven has memories: memories of upheaval, of fear and uncertainty, even a few precious memories of joy and the generosity of others.
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LONDON, Dec 7 (IPS) - âPeople cannot live without their memory. Memory is   about culture, and culture is identity,â said Argentine  filmmaker Fernando  'Pino' Solanas, presenting his  latest documentary 'A Social Genocide', in  London.
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We didn t think it possible to unravel the mystery of my husband s maternal grandparents until the JUF Mission to Lithuania/Latvia. As Zionists, they had sent the four oldest of their five children to Israel in ...
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KERRY O'BRIEN: 2005 is going to see a number of landmark anniversaries connected to the dying moments of World War II.
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Amateur historians and academics can take advantage of a wealth of archived data on the web.
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Locales that are not always where you want to be but are always fascinating
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Analyst Malcolm Penn looks back over sixty years of the silicon chip industry.