Web Week

Grub: Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology has already allowed volunteers to donate spare computer capacity to worthy projects like the search for extraterrestrial life or a cure for cancer. Now Grub has launched a P2P scheme to map the net itself. Volunteers download a client program that searches out new websites according to instructions from Grub's central server. Eventually Grub hopes its distributed network will build and maintain the most comprehensive index of the internet ever compiled. The 285 clients in operation are already cataloguing nearly six million web pages a day, but the task ahead is gargantuan. Grub estimates that there are well over 10 billion web pages of content on the net right now, with more than a million pages created or revised every day.

Demolition: This site is the homepage of three local demolition companies and oddly enough, is quite fascinating. An online catalogue lists furniture and used building materials that have recently been salvaged from demolished buildings in and around Auckland, which may include anything from a set of church pews to urinals. All entries are illustrated with thumbnail sized photos that may be enlarged by clicking on them. If you've been hunting high and low for a spiral staircase or some colonial style casement windows, this site should be one of the first places to look.

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Grub

Demolition