I'm over at the school having worked on a couple of my first assignments for most of the night after walking Shea to work at 7pm. Now I'm just surfing around aimlessly because Shea's at work and if I go home, er, I'd probably just be doing the same thing. Here's something fun I came […]
Google Accessible Search is “an early Google Labs product designed to identify and prioritize search results that are more easily usable by blind and visually impaired users. Regular Google search helps you find a set of documents that is most relevant to your tasks. Accessible Search goes one step further by helping you find the […]
I didn't buy the Sam Baker CD at the Fred Picnic (having already blown more than I should have on other CD's and DVD's) but as I thought more about Baker's performance (and based on Beer Doug, a huge music fan in his own right, saying that it was the best CD he'd heard in […]
Like MySpace and Friendster and Facebook and Orkut and who knows what else, LinkedIn is another social networking site. This one appears to be more focussed on jobs and career-type networking than the more informal, non-profesional networking that the other sites do. It's got lots of great features but unfortunately, it's not great (or I'm […]
I'd never seen this before. Got an automated e-mail from Amazon a couple days ago. Interesting idea and I thought they were making a recommendation based on some things Shea had looked at previously. But it turns out they're claiming to recommend a fairly expensive nursing textbook based on the fact that I looked at […]
(Warning: I don't normally do warnings but if you're particularly sensitive you might not want to read this entry. Or read the first paragraph and see if that's enough to give you the willies. It even bugs me a bit and I'm the guy writing it.) MetaFilter has a massive debate going after someone linked […]
This is about as “fun” as the Friday Fun Links get… Carl Monday, an investigative reporter at a TV station in Cleveland recently did an extremely sensationalistic sweeps-week sting operation (link to video clip) where he used a hidden camera to catch a twenty-something man masturbating at the local public library on a public access […]
YouTube recently updated their terms of service to say that by uploading content to them, this gave them a “worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website.” The link above clarifies exactly what this means (including […]
Five Things Google Could Learn From Wikipedia1. More Isn't Always Better. Wikipedia is like a streamlined Google and more and more frequently, provides the quick factual answer to any question you might have in a way that Google no longer does. Do I need to know that my search for “GW Bush” returned 250 million […]
This is all over the web today – I saw it on Boing Boing this morning and Metafilter tonight (which was cited as being found on Digg.) Here’s the Top 5: 1. Reclaim the term ‘hacker’. If you tinker with electronics, you are a hacker. If you use things in more ways than intended by […]
