Things are Changing
A little tid-bit before the storm.
Top of the world, ma!
The magical van that powers Google Street View has finally come through Poultney!
A Likely Story, Mr. Google
In which I link to a post where the information giant attempts to debunk the theory that you can spot Atlantis in Google Earth.
Google Your Power Usage
From Google’s Energy Information: “At Google we’re committed to helping enable a future where access to personal energy information helps everyone make smarter energy choices. To get started, we’re working on a tool called Google PowerMeter which will show consumers their electricity consumption in near real-time in a secure iGoogle Gadget. We think PowerMeter will [...]
The Future of the Book
From James Gleick’s How to Publish Without Perishing: “One could imagine the book, venerable as it is, just vanishing into the ether. It melts into all the other information species searchable through Google’s most democratic of engines: the Web pages, the blogs, the organs of printed and broadcast news, the general chatter. (Thanks for everything, [...]
Friends Don’t Let Friends Drunk Email
From eWeek’s Google ‘Mail Goggles’ Is Latest Frivolous Feature for Gmail: “Google Gmail engineer Jon Perlow, who presumably when he was taking a break from working on anything important regarding Gmail, has created Mail Goggles for Gmail. The feature’s name comes from the ‘beer goggles’ syndrome. Perlow has created a feature that lets you practice [...]
Fluid Imagination Sells Out
Okay folks, as you can see, Fluid Imagination nows has advertising. I did it for two reasons. First, I just had to renew the domain name and hosting account for the website, and it took a sizable chunk out of the ol’ bank account. And while keeping all you chowederheads informed about the whys and [...]
Back In The Money Tangle
From NY Times’s Google at Age 10: “Google’s revenue per hour in the last 4 quarters: $2.2 million; Microsoft’s revenue per hour in the last 4 quarters: $6.9 million.” [Editor's Note: How could any company fail if its brings in $2.2 or $6.9 million per hour? On the other hand, how does one measure the [...]
Ever feel like a peasant begging for scraps outside of Newton’s laboratory?
From Wired’s The End of Theory: “Scientists are trained to recognize that correlation is not causation, that no conclusions should be drawn simply on the basis of correlation between X and Y (it could just be a coincidence). Instead, you must understand the underlying mechanisms that connect the two. Once you have a model, you [...]
Blackle - Energy Saving Search
For all you energy conscious folks out there, you might want to take a look at Blackle. It’s Google, except instead of the white background, there’s a black background. By not having your monitor create the white screen, this saves a small amount of energy. They estimate that, with the number of visitors they’ve had, [...]
