A collection of digital wonders and some other stuff
There’s a new show online called Google Current, which dishes out the scoop on Google’s top search terms.
Google Current airs every half hour on Current TV and provides a look at what the world is searching for on Google. From hybrid cars to human-animal hybrids, from Paris riots to Paris Hilton photos, your searches guide our stories. There’s nothing like it on television.
Google Current can be found at http://current.tv/google/.
Trouble sleeping? This short but interesting read explains some of the secrets behind that strange sensation of falling that sometimes occurs while sleeping and the strong muscle twitching that often accompanies it.
Flickr’s gone catty for April Fools’ Day.
MyDeathSpace.com is a collection of links and information about MySpace account holders that have died. I’m not sure why they limited it to MySpace users only, since there are plenty of people that blog and don’t use MySpace, but that’s beside the point.
Only three things are certain in life. MySpace, Taxes, and Death.
If you have a MySpace account and you die, this is where you will end up.
MyDeathSpace.com memorializes deceased MySpace users and picks up where a regular obituary leaves off.
Click the MySpace Deaths link at the top to view the latest MySpace Deaths!
Yesterday I was helping a client transfer her domain name from Register.com (which, by the way, I would recommend against using if at all possible).
Anyway it got me thinking about the whole domain name system and then this morning I came across these interesting facts about domain names.
The US Census Bureau has some handy common name files available on their site, so I thought I’d see how one’s luck would be trying to register their own name(s).
If you’re looking for a masculine domain name, you’ll be disheartened to learn that of the 1,219 male names listed by the US Census Bureau, every single one is registered. If you’re looking for something feminine, you’re in luck: As I type this, of the 2,841 female names listed by the Census, you can soon grab the lucrative recently expired Erlinda.com, or the sitting in purgatory Shanita.com, though both are technically currently taken.
On the family name front, 100% of the top 10,000 family names are registered.
I should have grabbed milner.ca when I had the chance, or milner.com for that matter. C’est la vie, what’s in a name anyway? Though it ticks me off that some cybersquatters are ransoming off milner.org. I thought you had to be a non-profit organization to hold onto .org domains, what’s up with that?
If you live in the Great White North, like I do, then you might as well take advantage of this nifty tip I found on Popular Science: How to preserve a snowflake using superglue.
- Set microscope slides, coverslips and superglue outside when it’s 20°F or colder to chill them. Catch flakes on the slides or pick them up with cold tweezers.
- Place a drop of superglue on the snowflake. Note: Gel glue doesn’t work. Find a brand that’s thin and runny.
- Drop a coverslip over the glue. Don’t press down hard or the flake could tear or melt from the heat of your finger.
- Leave the slide in a freezer for one or two weeks and don’t touch it with warm hands. The glue must completely harden before the snowflake warms up.
I think it’s safe to say it will make all your siblings living in the much more temperate climate of Australia jealous enough to race home to the land of the true, north, strong, and free (and sometimes cold).
(via Make blog)
Here is a collection of 10 extremely neat lego creations. Also on the topic of Lego, I came across an archive of lego plans from the late 70’s to today.
A few weeks ago I told you about Judith, the woman who lost her camera in a National Park in Hawaii that was found but not returned.
In a follow-up to that story, apparently the family has come around and restored balance to the universe by returning her camera. Here are Judith’s details of the case.
As an aside, The National Post ran an interesting story about this lost camera incident.
Update: her lost camera blog no longer exists. (http://lostcamera.blogspot.com/2006/03/delighted.html)
I love Malcalm Gladwell’s writing and reading an ESPN interview with him only helps to reinforce my impression of him—he’s brilliant.
This week’s exchange is with Malcolm Gladwell, the best-selling author of “Blink” and “Tipping Point” as well as the longtime cleanup hitter for the New Yorker. You would never think that the most successful nonfiction writer alive would double as a huge sports fan … but he does. So I couldn’t resist the chance to exchange e-mails with him intermittently over the past six weeks.
Check out “Curious Guy: Malcalm Gladwell”, part IÂ and part II.
Yeah it’s pretty geeky, but nevertheless The Slanket is so weird it’s interesting.
The Slanket is a HUGE 100% polyester polar fleece blanket with oversized sleeves. They are made and tested in Maine. The Slanket is approximately 60 inches wide by 102 inches in length, with 13 inch wide sleeves, that are so large and loose that you never feel constricted and you have total control in how you use them. The Slanket is great on a couch, a chair, in a hammock, on your bed or anywhere else you care to take it.
I love fleece as a material and as long as I could get over how silly I’d feel wearing this thing, I think it might be pretty comfortable. After all, I like to wrap up in a blanket when I’m on the computer or reading a book but I often find my upper body gets a little chilly.