Archive for July, 2007

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Simpsonize Me

You’ve probably heard that the Simpsons Movie is coming out this summer. Specifically, this Friday. The website has lots of fun things, including making your own Simpsons-style avatar and, of course, games. Seems like every movie has a website where you can play games related to the movie.
Anyway, there’s also a related website where you […]

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Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

New & Improved Google Maps

Google has done it again–taken something they designed that was already good and improved it. Specifically, the Google Maps now allow you to customize your route on the fly.
You get directions from one place to another just like you always have, but now when you are presented with your route, you can click and drag […]

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Thursday, July 5th, 2007

Wikipedian Protester

Here’s an interesting comic from xkcd, an online comic series that often has insightful perspectives on technology today. The caption was “Wikipedian Protester” and the alt-text when you mouse over it was “Semi-Protect the Constitution.” Food for thought.

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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Chickens in the Library

A pair of chickens walks up to the circulation desk at a public library and say, ‘Buk Buk BUK.’ The librarian decides that the chickens desire three books, so she gives them the books and the chickens leave shortly thereafter.
Around midday the two chickens return to the circulation desk quite vexed and say, ‘Buk Buk […]

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