A little more than a year ago a collaboration between Google and the Israel Museum allowed putting on line five Dead Sea Scrolls. Now the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has launched the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, a new site that is home to about 5,000 images of fragments of those scrolls for a total of more than 900 manuscripts in a quality never seen before.
Google has put online a web application for its Chrome browser called “100,000 Stars” that allows you to explore an area of the Milky Way which includes one hundred thousand stars. This is an interactive application with various features that allow to zoom in and out to go from the Sun to the entire “neighborhood” with all the possible intermediate steps.
Now something has changed in the secrecy kept by Google and now the company have created a section of its web site titled “Where the Internet Lives” where you can find a gallery of photographs taken by Connie Zhou of its various data centers. Those photos show the servers, the systems used for their cooling and also some of the people who work for this technology giant.
