Everyone Has One

Finally a “real” monster caught on film by Japanese scientists. The National Geographic News Photo Gallery: First Live Giant Squid Photographed has two really great photographs.

The Boston Globe’s top 50 list of the best Science Fiction TV shows of all time doesn’t cut it in my opinion.
Also their format stinks, making you click your way down the list instead of just presenting it all on one page.
Their top 10:
1. Star Trek (original)
2. Battlestar Galactica (New)
3. Star Trek: The Next Generation
4. [...]

Attack of the Show was bad enough. Now they are going to show reruns of The Man Show? They are definitely going in the wrong direction. Maybe they will move Call for Help to a “better” time slot like 3am.
Time for another billionaire to have a go at a real “tech” TV. Bill would you [...]

I like any test that I can do well at. The Typing Test: Free On-line Typing Test by TypingMaster, Inc. is a straightforward java app that lets you type one of 4 samples in 1,2, or 3 minutes to get a score (words per minute and accuracy). It is user-friendly in that it underlines the [...]

Sure, now that tivo is going down the tubes in the US, they start offering service in Canada. Well, better late than never.
Now I just have to figure out how to get my tivo from where it is, a couple of thousand miles away, to Toronto so that I can use it.

newsmap is a nice graphical way of seeing what news (by category) is the most “popular” (i.e. appearing in the most publications).
For less “popular” categories the type size gets unreadably small, so I saved a couple of links with a limited set of different categories that are of interest.

Wordcount has a really nice, clean interface. It has a ranking of all the words in the English language. 86,800 words in total including names.
I think I can see a new “game” of finding the word(s) next to one’s name in the ranking:
“dairy jay yields decoration”

It’s a nice try but placeopedia didn’t get it quite right. It’s a mashup of google maps and wikipedia.
I think these 2 services go well together but the way I would do it is:
wikipedia -> google maps: this direction already exists (in experimental form). Entries (e.g. cities) with specific locations (look for the latitude and [...]

Actually the spaminator map gets an up arrow. It’s the origin of the spam that disappoints.
Mailinator is an email service that by its nature receives a lot of spam. Using google maps they have now shown a map of where the most spam that they receive comes from. Unfortunately it’s got none of the “pirate” [...]

For dedication to their 800,000 website customers by staying open in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. Sleeping on the floor and running the looter gauntlet to get diesel fuel to keep backup generators running. Downtown New Orleans is not exactly a peaceful work environment at the moment.
Too bad the people responsible for the rest of [...]