I’m not joking here, the English edition of Wikipedia Encyclopedia contains around 3 million articles as of now and if someone were to print the entire Wikipedia encyclopedia into a book, the size of that book would roughly be equivalent to 952 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Not sure if anyone is willing to go that far but a student in UK has actually converted 0.01% of the Wikipedia encyclopedia into a printed book.

Featured articles are considered to be the best articles in Wikipedia, as determined by Wikipedia’s editors. Before being listed here, articles are reviewed at featured article candidates for accuracy, neutrality, completeness, and style according to our featured article criteria.

At present, there are 2,553 featured articles, of a total of 2,921,563 articles on the English Wikipedia. Thus, about one in 1,140 articles is listed here.

Look at the printed version 0.01% of wikipedia:

Does anyone play on sponsoring me for this? I’m planning on getting the last 29th volume printed  :D

When looking for gay or lesbian on Google this week a rainbow in the bar above the search results shows in the background which signifies the Gay Pride.

The Acropolis Museum houses the archaeological findings related to the Acropolis Hill and was purpose-built by architect Bernard Tschumi in Athens, Greece. It lies at the foot of the Acropolis, on Dionysíou Areopagítou Street. The Organisation for the Construction of the New Museum is chaired by Aristotle University Professor Emeritus of Archaeology, Dimitrios Pandermalis.

New set of iGoogle themes released today. Drawing on the arrival of summer and the spectacular beauty of the world around us, Google’s new iGoogle themes focus on nature. To create these themes, Google worked with organizations and photographers who capture the world’s best nature photography, including National Geographic Society, BBC and Ansel Adams Gallery.

Here’s a quick preview of the highlights in iGoogle’s new nature collection:

• National Geographic’s “Ocean Blue” takes you from shark territory in the Caribbean to ice floes on the polar caps
• The National Audubon Society’s “Birds of Prey” features winged predators depicted in the classic Audobon hand-drawn illustration style
• Art Wolfe’s “Travels to the Edge” includes views deep into the forests of North America and aerial shots of river deltas and rice paddies
• Rodney Lough’s “Deserts” presents striking images of the most desolate — and stunning — corners of our planet

So, check out the new nature themes and add them to your IGoogle Page :) … Hope you enjoy them!!

Google launches a host of new features in Google Books that give you more ways to browse and share the content from the Google Books collection.

For example: A feature that allows you to embed previews of books in your blog or website, so you can share pages of your favorite books as easily as you would a YouTube video. We’ve also added a thumbnail view of full book and magazine pages and an improved way to search within books.

Google has made a way for us to search, browse, and share the books that are digitized: Here are the some things you can do:

1. Embeds and links
2. Better search within each book
3. Thumbnail view
4. Contents drop-down menu
5. Plain Text Mode
6. Page Turn Button and Animation
7. Improved Book Overview Page

Visit the Google inside blog for more information.

Google  added Persian (Farsi) to Google Translate. This means you can now translate any text from Persian into English and from English into Persian — whether it’s a news story, a website, a blog, an email, a tweet or a Facebook message. The service is available free at http://translate.google.com.

Google Feels  that launching Persian is particularly important now, given ongoing events in Iran. Like YouTube and other services, Google Translate is one more tool that Persian speakers can use to communicate directly to the world, and vice versa — increasing everyone’s access to information.

Translate helps make all that information accessible to you — no matter what language you speak. So please visit Google Translate and try it out.

Reading the latest comments on your friend’s photos in your activity stream, but not sure how to reply? Google has just made this easier for you to do by letting you make comments directly in your activity stream itself.

Now, whenever a friend’s comment on a photo, it pops up in your activity stream and you can quickly reply by simply selecting “add comment.”. This should help keep the comments flowing!