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Google's Tetris logo marks 25 years of the video puzzle game
Google's Tetris-like logo leads its search pages today. More special logos: Holiday Logos and Events, Google Logos Collection (unofficial). The photo below, of a Tetris screen at a video arcade in Brooklyn, is by Mark Lennihan of AP. 25...
June 6, 2009 3:00 pm
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Blender Defender keeps cat off kitchen counter
It's been a long, hard week -- I've been coding till my eyes grew crusty -- and this made me chuckle. "Poor cat" came next, but it's undeniably funny. Blender Defender is a kitchen-counter blender one-third full of water, its...
June 5, 2009 12:49 pm
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4-letter words as Java toy; Saved by his blog; The treatment biz
base26: Built with Processing is a graphical representation of four-letter words, lots of four-letter words, and the relationship among them. The pattern -- sturdy four-letter workhorses of our language such as book, door, sell, sing and swig -- is...
June 4, 2009 11:24 pm
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Fun with Google Squared, a rookie searchbot that wants you to teach it
Google Squared results for "Jon Stewart" show it does not watch The Daily Show. I'm helping garden blogger Pat Feinstein identify her ferns using the new Google Squared's "structured data" search: ferns. Browsable, with photos, Squared's cultural knowledge is...
June 4, 2009 12:47 am
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Birdsong radio: Nature in your ears
Birdsong Radio, Live Dawn Chorus Bird Song Station Scroll down to the "Live Dawn Chorus Birdsong Stream." Metafilter identifies it as, "a 25 minute loop of birdsong recorded as a test pattern." These tweets are a hoot. I'm going to...
June 3, 2009 12:42 am
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Links: Saddam's palaces are GI's dorms; News IQ quiz; Dylan disses cyberdistractions; What Grape-Nuts are
Outdoor gym, Al-Faw Palace, Camp Victory, Baghdad, Iraq (2009); detail of a photo by Richard Mosse, Saddam's Palaces: An Interview with Richard Mosse at BLDBLOG. Photographer Richard Mosse returned from Iraq with shots of the imperial palaces of Saddam...
June 1, 2009 11:27 pm
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What's a happy life? A 72-year study tries to distill an answer
What Makes Us Happy? in The Atlantic is Joshua Wolf Shenk's account of an attempt to document the entire lives of hundreds of men. It's a long tale. Begun in 1937 as a study of healthy, well-adjusted Harvard sophomores (all...
June 1, 2009 7:20 am
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