OT: Amazon book URL shortcut
P.D. TILLMAN
Try http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=?/ -- "fill in your ISBN"
-- compare to the 'standard' yard-long Amazon book URL...
(and I wonder what 'obidos' is.... Unix gurus?)
Cheers -- Pete Tillman
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Carol Schmidt
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> Try http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=?/ -- "fill in your ISBN"
> -- compare to the 'standard' yard-long Amazon book URL...
>
> (and I wonder what 'obidos' is.... Unix gurus?)
Obidos is a lovely walled castle near Lisbon, high on a green mountain, the
walls covered with scarlet bougainvillea, the streets lined now with arts
and crafts booths and small bed and breakfasts.
Legend has it that one of the kings sometime around the 1400's had
absolutely no money to bestow upon his new queen so he gave her the town of
Obidos, calling it the most beautiful jewel in his crown.
The castle is now an inn for about nine guests (we took a room with an
outside window into a courtyard with a loving tabby cat who came in and out
of our room at will through the window), and the restaurant was one of the
best I have ever experienced. I was inspired to go home and try to write a
romance set in Lisbon. (It stunk.)
And no one made fun of me when I locked the keys in my rental and the entire
town helped me get the door unlocked with a hanger. Thank you for bringing
up this memory.
Um, you meant some other Obidos?
Carol Schmidt
Andrew Plotkin
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> Try http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=?/ -- "fill in your ISBN"
> -- compare to the 'standard' yard-long Amazon book URL...
Thanks! That makes one of my projects easier.
> (and I wonder what 'obidos' is.... Unix gurus?)
Nothing standard. It just seems to be the name of the program Amazon built
to handle all of their catalog, shopping, searching, etc.
--Z
"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the
borogoves..."
Jerry Kindall
<erky...@eblong.com> wrote:
> In rec.arts.sf.written P.D. TILLMAN <til...@aztec.asu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Try http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=?/ -- "fill in your
> > ISBN" -- compare to the 'standard' yard-long Amazon book URL...
>
> Thanks! That makes one of my projects easier.
>
> > (and I wonder what 'obidos' is.... Unix gurus?)
>
> Nothing standard. It just seems to be the name of the program Amazon
> built to handle all of their catalog, shopping, searching, etc.
Probably stands for something like "Online Book Index and Database
Operating System." Or else Obi-Dos Kenobi was their only hope.
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Francis Muir
Kristin Buxton wrote:
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> til...@aztec.asu.edu (P.D. TILLMAN) writes:
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> >Try http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=?/ -- "fill in your ISBN"
> >-- compare to the 'standard' yard-long Amazon book URL...
>
> >(and I wonder what 'obidos' is.... Unix gurus?)
>
> I think it's a place in portugal.. but my friend that used to work at amazon
> hasn't gotten back to me to confirm
> --
> Kristin Buxton <kbu...@kbuxton.com> http://www.kbuxton.com
>
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Matt Ruff / Lisa Gold
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> P.D. TILLMAN wrote:
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>> (and I wonder what 'obidos' is.... Unix gurus?)
>
Actually, weren't the Obidos the headhunters in the opening of "Raiders
of the Lost Ark"?
-- M. Ruff
Francis Muir
Think Obi (-Wan Kenobi) + DOS (Digital Operating System).
Richard Shewmaker
The 'obi' might be Object Broker Interface
Geir Friestad
|Carol Schmidt wrote:
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|> Obidos is a lovely walled castle near Lisbon,
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| Actually, weren't the Obidos the headhunters in the opening of "Raiders
| of the Lost Ark"?
No, those were Hovitos. :-)
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Tavegyl
Richard Shewmaker <ric...@astrospamkillphos.com> wrote in message.
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> The 'obi' might be Object Broker Interface
On the other hand, it may be a wide Japanese belt...
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Brad Johnson
: Richard Shewmaker <ric...@astrospamkillphos.com> wrote in message.
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:> The 'obi' might be Object Broker Interface
: On the other hand, it may be a wide Japanese belt...
Just do a quick search for obidos and amazon and you'll see the answer.
You do have to parse out the amazon.com links, like so:
http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?q=%2Bobidos+amazon+-amazon.com+-amazon.de+-amazon.co
Obidos is a major port on the Amazon river.
-- bradj.
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