links for 2006-08-07

• Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Spheres of influence – umberto eco
  (tags: tbr)
• MENLO PARK / Ancient past via Webcast / Stanford researchers unveil Archimedes’ writings on Internet
  researchers at Stanford University used the Internet to broadcast across the world the decoding of an ancient mathematics text, written by one of the founding fathers of calculus…
  (tags: history archaeology mathematics physics research)
• BBC NEWS | Technology | How the web went world wide
  One key date is 6 August 1991 – the day on which links to the fledgling computer code for the www were put on the alt.hypertext discussion group so others could download it and play with it.
  On that day the web went world wide.
  (tags: internet technology)
• Macworld: Secrets: Repairing permissions: What you need to know
  (tags: osx reference)

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