Google quadruples number of articles included in News Archive Search
Google News Blog: "We've recently updated our index, quadrupling the number of articles included in News Archive Search. We now include articles from several new publications, including the Halifax Gazette, Sydney Morning Herald, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and the Village Voice. Working with our partners, we've also added new international publications such as the Manila Standard, The Nation from Thailand, and many others...You can explore this historical treasure trove by searching on News Archive Search or by using the timeline feature after searching on Google News."

List of post offices that may be closed:
http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Technology/Station%20and%20branch%20list.pdf
Of the 32,741 post offices in America, the Postal Service is reviewing about 3,200, or nearly 10 percent. Not all the offices on the list may close--and others may be added.

An unknown artist posted several posters in Los Angeles "mashing up" an image of Obama and Heath Ledger's Joker character from "The Dark Knight." The Obama- Joker poster, with the word "socialism" in bold, dark letters printed under the image of his face, has caused a stir on the Web and was linked prominently on the Drudge Report. The original Obama image used for the poster appeared on the cover of the Oct. 23, 2006, edition of Time magazine. The poster bears the dateline and address to Time's
Web site, www.time.com above the image. http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/President44/story?id=8239870&page=1

The Air Force closely monitored blogs and social networking sites, including counting the number of messages posted every minute on Twitter, to gauge the swift and angry
public reaction to the flyover of Air Force One during a photo shoot in New York City in April, according to internal e-mails the Defense Department released on July 31.
The Air Force notified the New York City Police Department and other public safety agencies in the New York-New Jersey area about the flyover, but asked them not to publicly disseminate the information. As a result, when Air Force One and two F-16 fighters started circling New York Harbor on April 27 for the photo shoot, many residents became fearful that they were in for a repeat of the airline attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. The flyover led to evacuation of office buildings in both New York and New Jersey. http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090803_7235.php

How big is the Internet? Microsoft's Bing team puts the amount of web pages at "over one trillion". And Google has already indexed more than one trillion discrete web addresses. There are more addresses than there are people on Earth. The current global population stands at more than 6.7 billion. See graphic display of the world’s Internet users at: http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,25857420-5018992,00.html

Clare Abshire gets herself in a passionate love affair with Chicago librarian Henry DeTamble, who has a genetic disorder that causes him to time travel. Yes, The Time Traveler’s Wife is now a movie slated to open August 14. http://www.bscreview.com/2009/08/rachel-mcadams-eric-bana-4-clips-from-the-time-travelers-wife/

Movie coming out August 7: Julie & Julia. Movie still showing and worthwhile: Up.

See puns on titles of children’s books at: http://www.parentdish.com/2009/08/03/childrens-books-that-will-never-exist/

“The Associated Press--which thinks you owe it a license fee if you quote more than four words from one of its articles--doesn't even care if the words actually came from its article. They'll charge you anyway, even if you're quoting from the public domain. I picked a random AP article and went to their "reuse options" site. Then, when they asked what I wanted to quote, I punched in Thomas Jefferson's famous argument against copyright. Their license fee: $12 for an educational 26-word quote.” http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/02/associated-press-wil-1.html

On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. On August 5, the bomb was loaded onto a specially designed B-29 bomber. It contained 2.2 pounds of uranium. The bomb was dropped over Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m. It exploded 1,900 feet above the ground. Capt. Robert Lewis watched the explosion from his cockpit and wrote in his journal, "My God, what have we done?" About 80,000 people died instantly, and 60,000 more would die from their injuries in the coming months. The Writer’s Almanac