{"id":126,"date":"2007-07-01T19:04:33","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T02:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/07\/01\/google-to-the-rescue-fetch-with-ruff-ru"},"modified":"2007-07-01T19:51:30","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T02:51:30","slug":"google-to-the-rescue-fetch-with-ruff-ruffman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/07\/01\/google-to-the-rescue-fetch-with-ruff-ruffman\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to the rescue: FETCH! With Ruff Ruffman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know they&#8217;re improving Maps at an alarming rate; <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=110250251874931634497.000001130b354b05ae93a&amp;om=1&amp;ll=28.545926,91.625977&amp;spn=4.042896,7.470703&amp;z=7\" title=\"Damcho's trip\">My Maps<\/a>, full-screen (hide directions), traffic, street view, drag to re-route directions, and so forth.  And that&#8217;s just in the past few months, in one application.  Gears is also significant because it promises to bridge the off-line gap, the so-called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intelligententerprise.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/google_gears_co.html\" title=\"Airplane problem\">airplane problem<\/a>.  They&#8217;re supposedly acquiring Grand Central, which <a href=\"http:\/\/carril.com\/ejm\/call_me.html\" title=\"call me\">I think<\/a> is very smart.  They just released the desktop for Linux, which is also great.  And they&#8217;re doing something important, which I don&#8217;t understand, with package management; but Stephen O&#8217;Grady tells me <a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2007\/06\/28\/google-and-the-future-of-package-management\/\" title=\"Red Monk\">it is<\/a>, so it is.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s why, today, I think Google&#8217;s great, and it cost me two bucks.  My five<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pbskids.org\/fetch\/i\/pt\/ruff_papers.gif\" alt=\"Ruff Ruffman\" align=\"right\" height=\"294\" width=\"186\" \/> year old was looking forward to watching a show (&#8220;FETCH! With Ruff Ruffman,&#8221; whose appeal escapes me) this afternoon on PBS.  But it turns out that since we only have old-fashioned over-the-air analog television &#8212; which is practically a war crime, I know &#8212; that particular show wasn&#8217;t on at the promised time.  I assume he saw an ad for some PBS cable channel.  Anyway, it was his television for the day and he was bitterly disappointed.  Sobbing.<\/p>\n<p>Google to the rescue.  First, I tried going to the PBS website, but they only had lame games and, frustratingly, trailers for the show.  YouTube, nothing.  But a quick Google search offered me the entire first season in the Google Video Player (soon to be deprecated in favor of YouTube?) for $1.99\/episode.  So I got 29 minutes of relief from child care on a Sunday afternoon and Google got my undying gratitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know they&#8217;re improving Maps at an alarming rate; My Maps, full-screen (hide directions), traffic, street view, drag to re-route directions, and so forth. And that&#8217;s just in the past few months, in one application. Gears is also significant because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/07\/01\/google-to-the-rescue-fetch-with-ruff-ruffman\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jQA6-22","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}