New effort to monitor TV content

I'm 200+ emails behind due to pressing deadlines, and I've missed posting a number of articles I found interesting, so I hope you'll forgive my transgressions in the cathedral of blogging.

Meantime, in Wednesday's NY Times: A New Attempt to Monitor Media Content. A new group, called Common Sense Media, is introducing a Web-based media ratings system, devised with help from the publishers of the Zagat guides, that will rank entertainment products based on language, violence, sexual content and adult themes.

Einstein's genius lives on -- online

NY Times: Now on the Web, a Peek Into Einstein's Thoughts, Excerpt:

Yesterday the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University and the California Institute of Technology, where the Einstein Papers Project has its headquarters, started a new Web site, www.alberteinstein.info.

It contains digitized images of some 900 Einstein papers as well as a searchable list of 43,000 documents in the archive. ...

The online collection includes all 230 original scientific manuscripts and drafts that were in his possession when he died ...

Among them, she said, is a notebook in which he worked out his general theory of relativity, which explained gravity as the warping of space-time geometry and is generally regarded as his greatest achievement. The notebook has been intently studied by historians in recent years.

In addition there are about 700 nonscientific writings and speeches and fragments from his travel diaries kept during trips to the United States, Japan and South America, among other places.