arrival of the music dialtone: last.fm offers 3.5 millions songs on demand

January 23, 2008 at 1:21 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

You can listen to all of last.fm’s 3.5 million songs which includes the big 4 record labels.

http://www.cbscorporation.com/news/prdetails.php?id=2943

wegame

January 10, 2008 at 4:49 pm | In Uncategorized | 2 Comments

This will likely soon replace Hollywood! A well packaged client and website for sharing video of videogames.

http://wegame.com/
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9847826-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1035_3-0-5

Pioneer of BBC Micro (the 1st computer I ever used) honoured

January 7, 2008 at 6:18 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

One of the designers of the classic BBC Micro computer, Steve Furber, of the University of Manchester, was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7162935.stm

The BBC Micro was the first computer I ever used – hence this post :)

National Academies book on evolution and creationism

January 7, 2008 at 3:42 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

The National Academies has just released a short book (88 pages) on evolution and creationism, documenting the science behind evolution and commenting on the creationism “debate”.

…a book designed to give the public a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of the current scientific understanding of evolution and its importance in the science classroom.

URL: http://nationalacademies.org/morenews/20080104.html

ethereal internet experience!

January 6, 2008 at 10:12 pm | In Uncategorized | 1 Comment

I had a $250 American Airlines voucher I got about a year ago for a flight that got cancelled. Finally I decided to use it and called AA on the phone to make a reservations. The agent made the reservation and gave me instructions on how to redeem the voucher. She said I should simply mail the voucher to the following address: “American Airlines, BOX 1096223, Highway 90, Milton, FL 32570-1708″. And said I should include my name, flight #, and dept date below the return address on the envelope. I was a little confused about the BOX ###, so I went to google and searched for : “american airlines box 1096223″. Google gave nonsensical links and said, Did you mean: “american airlines box 109 6223″. I clicked on that link and got this page: www.flyerguide.com/wiki/index.php/Vouchers_(AA)

The page has line by line instructions on redeeming the voucher and the address to send to!!!

Just typing those 3 words got me exactly the information I wanted – a perfect example of the search engine inferring user intent from keywords!

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