Hockey The Flames got spanked in their first game of the season against the Oilers (who almost made me want to cheer with them with what a dynamic young team they’ve assembled. But then I remembered that only could happen after they’ve sucked for much of the last decade so the feeling passed.) Topping the […]
Maybe it’s just a quirk of timing but it seems like Facebook’s had a couple big launch announcements recently while Google’s most noticeable activity is dropping their heavily hyped Wave product. Here’s the comparison: Facebook Facebook’s big news yesterday was that they made it official they were launching, Facebook Places, a service to give them […]
I posted this three years ago (!) but the question recently popped back into my head and since I find the answer truly awe-inspiring in that “how many stars are there in the galaxy?” kinda way, I'm going to post it again. I suspect the process has remained essentially the same in those intervening three […]
Google Lit Trips is a pretty cool site where users can submit their own mash-ups combining Google Earth files with the places visited in famous novels. Although it's aimed mostly at teachers looking to teach literature in a different way, this site can be enjoyed by any book lovers.(via MetaFilter)
Apple Study: 8 easy steps to beat Microsoft (and Google) View more presentations from Ouriel Ohayon.
Here's a pretty cool mash-up that takes user-submitted photos to Panoramio and places them onto a Google Map to identify tourist hot-spots worldwide.
I wrote about this meme before. Turns out that a couple years after these parodies gave their German-language art house film some international attention, the people who made the movie have decided that the single scene used for all these parodies is an “infringement” of their work. Well, they say that dinosaurs had small brains […]
If you think about it, you can make a pretty strong case that Google is the closest thing we have to a scientifically-provable omniscient, omnipresent God. (I know I'm a believer!)Meanwhile, I saw this photo on an atheist message board today with the very un-PC but otherwise fitting caption given the recent sex scandals rocking […]
Easily the best session at the PLA Virtual Conference I hosted at RPL last week was the one on “Marketing as Conversation: How to Interact with Your Community Through Your Web Site”. In fact, throughout the presentation, I just kept nodding my head and grinning like a goofball, thinking to myself, “Yep, uh-huh, that's right!” […]
A pretty cool visual representation of the Top 100 Sites on the Internet. (via MetaFilter)
