http://bananaslug.com/
Here you can search google with the addition of a random word – selected from a useful category e.g. “great ideas” or jargon or cities etc. It shifts results to a new focus, which can be serendipitous. And I’m a big fan of chaos.
Archive for the ‘fun & procrastination’ Category
10 Jul
BananaSlug: add serendipity to your Google search
9 Jan
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
I definately want one of these! View the video all about it: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary
22 Dec
Gift Ideas: 10 Absolutely Useless Gadgets
http://www.computersight.com/Computers/10-Absolutely-Useless-Gadgets.382173
Includes USB pole dancer & Wi-Fi detector T-shirt
10 Dec
Europeana: digital paintings, books, films and archives
Europeana, the European digital library, museum and archive, is a 2-year project that began in July 2007 that now has produced a prototype website giving users direct access to some 2 million digital objects, including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and archival papers.
These have been selected from that which is already [...]
10 Dec
The humble computer mouse celebrates its 40th anniversary today
On 9 December 1968 hi-tech visionary Douglas Engelbart first used one to demonstrate novel ways of working with computers.
The first mouse that Dr Engelbart used in the demo at the Fall Joint Computer Conference (FJCC) was made of wood and had one button.
Much of the technology shown off in the demo inspired the creation of [...]
30 Oct
Google in 2001
To celebrate its 10th birthday, Google has released a version of the search engine as it was in January 2001, allowing users to search the internet as it was then.
“We wanted to offer users a chance to search an older index as a way of looking back at web history, and the January 2001 Google [...]
30 Oct
Knovel University Challenge for Engineering & Science Students : Begins 30 September 2008 : Extended to 1 December 2008
The annual Knovel University Challenge has been extended until 1 December 2008..
You now have until 1 December 2008 to submit your answers and contact information (full name, university name, email address) via the contest widget available at http://info.knovel.com/challenge/
All entries with a total of at least 3 correct answers will be placed into a random drawing [...]
26 Aug
Where Cell Phones Go to Die
A fascinating photo essay of a mobile phone recycling centre at Technology Review.
7 Aug
Librarian Games: Ms Stackman & StackAttack
Should you be yearning to know all about a day in the life of a librarian you can now play the game!
Wiley Interscience publishers have made some variations on classic strategy games … so there’s
Ms Stackman (Move around inside a library, guiding patrons and collecting misshelved books)
Stack Attack (Slide book stacks to sort similar titles [...]
31 Jul
Visualise search results
A way to visualise searches on Google & Facebook: http://www.touchgraph.com/
I’m not a visual person so find this a bit scary but it’s also a bit intriguing … maybe better able to map the results of a search.
