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Political humor, how Google ranks results, a snowflake tutorial, a holiday game

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December 21, 2005 6:58 pm
By Sheila Lennon
The Funniest Pictures of 2005: Funny Pictures, Doctored Photos and Cartoons, at About.com. Bipartisan, but political humor generally targets those in power, not those on the outs.

How does Google collect and rank results? A Google engineer answers for librarians.

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Make a snowflake - a photo tutorial on Flickr.

Grow Ornament is a Flash game that invites you to trim a tree. Different things will happen depending on the order in which you add the elements. From Eyemaze, which has done several of these, most more complicated than the tree.

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