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BoingBoing wrote:the Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online officially launched, bringing 50,000 pages of searchable text and 40,000 images to the public for free. Presented by the University of Cambridge and other collaborators, the site currently contains only half of what will be available by 2009.

http://darwin-online.org.uk/

I just think that this sort of thing is really cool. Being able to peruse the works of great thinkers is not something that was an option for most of us prior to the internet age.

I wonder how long it'll take before some activist group wants it taken off the Internets?

I'm sure that there will be some creationist nuts out there saying it should be taken down as heresy...

They can complain all they want. It's published by a very established school on the Internet. I can't think of a better set up for freedom of speech.

What I find amazing is the amount of information he created. 50,000 pages? wow!