I was only able to find 8 of the 9 items on the list in almost exactly one half hour. I have them listed below in the order I found them. I went through first and tried to do all the item I thought I could find quickly in google and then go back for the rest.
9) A google image search for "Janet Murray" rendered this image in about 2 minutes.
8) I used the Way Back Machine at the Internet Archive to search for the homepage for CHNM as it looked in 1998. Search time: 2 minutes.
7) Using the search terms "syllabus, hamlet on the holodeck" I came up with syllabi for the following classes in about 2 minutes:
History of Computer Game Design - Stanford University
Eng/Com 252 - Centenary College
Interpretation Theory - Swarthmore College
The Culture of Information: Living the Internet - Miami University (Ohio)
4) A google search using the terms "willie lynch, virginia slave owners" rendered a few websites, some of dubious credibility. After clicking through a couple I settled on this one from the Freeman Insitute Search time: 3 minutes.
2) After using a couple of different search terms I finally found the poem using "When all the women wanted it" and found the poem at this address:
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Bistro/8066/ADMsuffrage.html
Search time: 4 minutes.
1) Of all the items I managed to find this one proved to be the most difficult. After searching google for a while I found a page with clips using the terms "leon trotsky, recordings speaking english". I had to fish through a page with several dozen clips and links of various sorts before finding this one near the end of Trotsky speaking about trials in Moscow. Search time: 7 minutes not including a time-out to install Real Audio in order to verify that he was, in fact, speaking English. The clip was found on this page.
3) I searched JSTOR for "Annual Review of Information Technology Developments for Economic and Social Historians, 1993" and was able to find the article here. Search time: about 3 minutes.
7) This was the last item I was able to find within the thirty minute time limit and was also rather difficult. I found an image of the letter using the Library of Congress' American Memory searching the terms "george washington, timothy pickering, certain forged letters". The first result links to an image of the actual letter but there is a link to a transcription of the letter at the top of the page. Search time: about 7 minutes.
I did try to search for the discussion on the Cuban Crisis even though I wouldn't have made it in time. After searching for about twenty minutes I gave up with no results.
Posted by Rob at September 2, 2004 04:09 PM