20 June 2006

Google's not-so-very-secret weapon

THE DALLES, Oregon On the banks of the windswept Columbia River, Google is working on a secret weapon in its quest to dominate the next generation of Internet computing. But it is hard to keep a secret when it is as big as two football fields, with twin cooling towers protruding four stories into the sky.

Read the full story by John Markoff and Saul Hansell The New York Times
Published: June 13, 2006

03 June 2006

King Arthur's Scottish Camelot


A number of authors down through the ages have suggested that Arthur - this most English of heroes - was in fact from Scotland, a story if true that would stand history on its head.
Read the full article by DIANE MACLEAN