Can anybody explain why I suddenly got a whackload of hits from PostSecret at the start of this month? As far as I can tell, nobody sent in a postcard that said they had a secret crush on me (or that they hated my guts) and anyhow, the links are shown as coming directly from […]
“On November 1st an alliance including Google, the most popular web-search engine, and several other firms announced a plan to make social networks as open as Netscape's browser made the web. The group released a set of standards, called OpenSocial, that allows software developers to write applications that work with any social network that participates. […]
Play a fun word game and donate rice to help end world hunger with every correct answer at FreeRice.com. Or, if you don’t feel like playing the game, why not just visit HungerSite.ccom? (Thanks to Gillian W. for the tip)
Here's an announcement that went out today about a project I've been volunteering on for the last six months or so. There's always going to be small things you'd change but overall, the new site is a big improvement on what the CLA had before and I'm proud to have been a part of this […]
This mash-up site shows near-real time edits to Wikipedia mapped against a Google map of the earth.
Librarian Chick provides an exhaustive list of online resources for students and librarians in the academic environment – from audio books to test taking and everything in between. She also has a Learning Center that lets you search for free educational information, sites, games and software online. Finally, to complete the trifecta of excellent resources, […]
The Real-Time Google Alphabet passes the letters of the alphabet to Google Suggest in real time to create a constantly updated list of the things that the Google algorithm thinks users are searching for.
…aka an “Easter Egg” for anybody not down with the kid's lingo. It's easy to get your own “Facebook Friends” collage.1. log into Facebook2. click on the “Friends” tab at the top of the page 3. click on the first “—” separator after “Online Now”. Cool, eh? (via Stephen's Lighthouse)
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has put up over 13 000 segments going back to 1999. That's pretty cool…or at least it would be if I could get any of the videos in the archives to load. Maybe the site's just being hammered with traffic because it's so new. But it almost makes you […]
When I was in Calgary, I went in a hockey pool with my cousin and his buddies every year. The rules we used were fairly standard in that the team you picked at the draft was the team you were stuck with for the year (in retrospect, dropping your lowest scoring player – ie. the […]
