This could be a timesaver for people who (a) can (b) believe they can (c) would like to be able to shuttle easily between two languages. To give you an idea, I tried it out with "racism in Spain" and this is what I got. But of course I'm probably just showing myself to be in thrall to new technology for the sake of it - Babelplex might, very occasionally, be mildly useful, but it's probably nothing to write home or blog about.

Unlike this news. The truly revolutionary thing about the project, if the universities I've had anything to do with are typical, is that more than one person should be able to use a book at any one time.

This largely unsung but important piece of news today is, of course, more revolutionary than either of the above, but gets a lot less newspaper inches than anything Google. What it says, ultimately, is that people are more important than religions.
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