Google has announced a R8.6 million grant to the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory that will help to preserve and give unprecedented digital access to thousands of archival documents, photographs and audio-visual materials about the life and times of Madiba. Google's grant will help in expanding the online Mandela archive and make it available to global audiences, scholars and researchers in the future. The online multimedia archive will include Mandela's letters and correspondence with … [Read more...] about Google’s 8.6 Million Votes for Madiba
OKay Children, Gather Around for a Group Sex Story
In the beginning there was the telephone party line and the 'nommer asseblief girlie' was the font of all gossip in the town as she listened in on everyone's conversations. Then telephone number routing became 'automatic' and it became increasingly more difficult for technicians to listen in to all conversations so we got a semblance of privacy back. Fast forward a couple of years to dial up internet connections. This 'giant leap' in technology made it pretty difficult for nefarious people … [Read more...] about OKay Children, Gather Around for a Group Sex Story
Are PE and Uitenhage on the Decline?
www.MyPE.co.za: According to Google's Ngram, the answer is a resounding yes. The Google Books Ngram Viewer is a tool that lets you research how popular words and phrases have been over several centuries, based on their appearance in the over 5 million books that have been "read" by Googles Optical Character Recognition Scanner (OCR). To be fair I also punched in the words 'Nelson Mandela Bay' and 'Despatch' as well. Owing to possible confusion between despatch (to send) and Despatch (the … [Read more...] about Are PE and Uitenhage on the Decline?
