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We Other Other Victorians

b3ta poses the question: What would the Victorians have done with the interweb?

Googlisms

Googlism is a site which uses the Google API to tell you what Google 'thinks' of what you’ve typed in. Here's what I get for my name:

frankie is the champ

frankie is a star

frankie is the original creator behind most of the steps we know of as "swing" today

frankie is literally shut out of a clubhouse by the neighbourhood girls

frankie is taking a bath

frankie is so utterly let down by everyone around him

frankie is appalled to hear herself assuring the girls at school that yes she has got a boyfriend

frankie is our fifth siberian husky

frankie is a mostly dalmatian puppy that was rescued from the modesto area where his chances for life was not good

frankie is a traveling teddy bear reporter that traveled around north

frankie is sooooooooooooo hot

frankie is the unofficial ambassador of lindy hop to the world

frankie is sickened by the fact that warren is "a gay" but needs a place to stay

frankie is an avid fisherman and he and susan find some refuge by relaxing at one of their favorite fishing spots

frankie is now a director of porno films

frankie is a kind hearted gopher working for the hollywood mafia

frankie is an ira terrorist who has killed more than twenty people and british intelligence is trying desperately to stop him

It's funny how many of these are dead-on. Post your funniest googlisms in the comments.

Will There Be a .mars?

Interesting: "With the ongoing construction of the International Space Station refocusing the world's attention on space exploration, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) are working on an "Interplanetary Internet." Such a system would establish gateways in outer space to help send and receive data to and from the nether reaches of our solar system and possibly beyond." A Q and A session with the man behind the project, Vint Cerf, who is also known as the "father of the internet."

Social Networking & Chat Software

I just recently ran across this program called "Humanity," apparently it's somehow a combination of Friendster and AIM (btw I just signed up to Friendster, my email address is fdintino - at - comcast.net, so add me to your friend groups or whatever they're called). Anyway looks mildly interesting.

Finally! - MyTunes

I knew it was only a matter of time before someone came out with this:

iTunes is mainly meant to be used as a music manager and means of purchasing music online. However, in addition to purchasing music, one can listen to any of the music shared by others on a network. So, for example, if another person on your network has iTunes and decides to share their music, you can listen to it. iTunes does not allow you to save this music to your hard drive.

MyTunes lifts this restriction by allowing you to save music from other computers to your hard drive.

Now if only someone could get around the fact that I can only see users in the same dorm as me, rather than the whole campus. (actually there is this for Mac OS X, and this tool for linux, but that doesn't help most of us - maybe i'll try porting to Windows when i have time [ha, right!]).