I hate the latest version of Google Image search. It looks cool, but is slow and less functional than in the past.
Bing Image Search is far better:
… Unfortunately, for that image search term: “Starbucks take comfort in ritual“, Bing only came up with 8 results, none what I was looking for.
Seems I must use Google despite the interface.
Leave a comment if you know of any other better alternative. (Yahoo is now using Bing, so that’s not an alternative.)
An undisguised cry for help.
Daily Honesty Box:
… I love Starbucks. I know it’s probably a terrible waste of money, but I love their coffee. But it’s more than their coffee. It’s the whole “Starbucks Experience” that I love – the atmosphere, the comfortable chairs, the lighting, the music they play, and the smiling, friendly people who greet you and make you feel like you matter by catering to your personal tastes. …
Actually, I’m not all that much in love with Starbucks burnt coffee.
But as a provider of free wireless internet, Starbucks is beloved to me.
If they sold cocaine instead of caffeine, I’d still likely be taking comfort there.
I don’t know about you, but I watch far more YouTube than traditional TV.
Can you get this on your regular boob tube? …
Out of 23,000 artistic video clips submitted to New York’s Guggenheim museum through the YouTube Play program, 125 have been selected as finalists. …
Here’s the kind of stuff they picked.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
… Twenty of these videos will be part of an exhibit at the Guggenheim and associated museums around the world, …
People often ask me how I can track so many different sites online: gymnastics and hiking.
I can’t.
Google Reader, a website, does it for me.
They’ve added a killer feature that I’ll use 400 times a day:
… we thought we should give our users a chance to maximize their screen space whenever possible… thus fullscreen mode was born. You can toggle the fullscreen mode through the ‘f’ key. Additionally, you can use ‘shift + u’ to show and hide the navigation panel so you can easily change what you’re reading without leaving fullscreen mode. …
Sign up for Google Reader (FREE) and give it a try.
… Mostly you use 5 keyboard shortcuts: j, k, o, f, and u
Easy.
Sam showed me this most amazing technology. It’s the future, for sure. Pranav Mistry will go down in history as one of the genius people who invented it.
Sixth Sense has been awarded 2009 Invention Award by Popular Science.
In 2010, he was named to Creativity Magazine’s Creativity 50. Mistry has been called “one of ten, best inventors in the world right now” by Chris Anderson.
Next step? … Pair SixthSense with Tan Le’s wireless headset that reads brainwaves!
In June, one test found that Chrome was only slightly faster than Safari on the Mac.
… I saw no compelling reason to switch to Chrome.
But in a real world wifi test on my personal Mac, Chrome was more than twice as fast as Safari downloading measured by speedtest.net.
Loading a YouTube video in both, the speed advantage of Chrome was obvious.
I’ll start using Chrome for video starting now. (With FlashBlock installed, of course.)
Because I use LastPass, it would be easy for me to switch over completely. … But using different browsers for different purposes might be the best solution of all.
UPDATE – I’ve switched permanently. Chrome is now my primary browser.
Brian starts teaching Math at a High School in Canada today. Good luck.
He works in a socialist system, far from perfect.
A documentary on the even worse American school system won the 2010 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award. I really want to see this.
The film analyzes the failures of American public education by following several students through the educational system.
Click PLAY or watch the trailer on YouTube.
It features Geoffrey Canada, one of my heros.
Bill Gates opinion of the film.
Thanks Lauraleigh.
This post for Anne who’s starting a new WP blog.
Paul Carr of Tech Crunch was frustrated that his WordPress blog is “lousy for maintaining a conversation”.
But after researching the alternatives, especially Tumblr, he’s sticking with WordPress.
If you want a conversation, go to a forum. If you have something to say, post it on WordPress.
Get your free blog at WordPress.com, Anne.
3D printers let designers make three dimensional objects by just hitting “print” on their computers. New businesses, like custom prostheses, are taking advantage.
Watch a great video on NY Times.
I love this comedy radio show and podcast. Very smart funny.
This week on the season premiere of WireTap, Jonathan speaks with a professional Rainbow Chaser about extreme weather tracking. …
Rick McCharles 