{"id":121,"date":"2006-10-06T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2006-10-06T09:00:13","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T14:00:13","slug":"internet-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Internet Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

boy with books<\/p>\n

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My friend JB at hogswallowing (link on the right of the main page) sends along word of the Internet Public Library, or IPL. (<\/span>link<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s say you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re interested in… astronomy. Go to the main page, find \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Science and Tech\u00e2\u20ac\u009d among the links on the left. Hover over it, then \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Astronomy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d pops up. Click to find links to all sorts of astronomy sources and Web pages.<\/p>\n

Why is this better than Google? Because all these sources have been checked out by the library staff. So there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a higher level of trust that you won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be looking at some wacko\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Web site, where he claims that God put the twinkly lights in the sky 150 years ago.<\/p>\n

But wait! There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more!<\/p>\n

Click the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ask a Question\u00e2\u20ac\u009d link, and you can fill out a form to ask any question you want. The library staff will look up the answer for you and get back to you.<\/p>\n

[Before you go asking questions, you should check out their \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Frequently Asked Research Questions\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to see if yours has already been answered. (<\/span>link<\/a>) Actually, you should check it out anyway, even if you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a question.]<\/span><\/p>\n

God only knows how long they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be able to answer questions from random people on the Net. I mean, how can they possible keep up? And how can they deal with all the morons who are willing to ask idiotic questions as joke, even at the risk of killing a cool and free service? How, I ask you, how?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My friend JB at hogswallowing (link on the right of the main page) sends along word of the Internet Public Library, or IPL. (link) Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s say you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re interested in… astronomy. Go to the main page, find \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Science and Tech\u00e2\u20ac\u009d among the links on the left. Hover over it, then \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Astronomy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d pops up. Click to find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-and-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}