These photographs were taken in May, June, and July, 2008, and are representative of what I was seeing in Iceland, France, Germany, and Massachusetts. There in roughly the order in which they were taken. See also What I’ve been seeing lately, take 1.
Search engine developer, Anna Patterson, who designed search technologies bought by Google has launched her own search engine meant to rival Google: Cuil (the article says Cuil is pronounced “cool” but the coloring of the font suggests “coo-el”). Cuil displays its search results as chunks of text across two or three columns. Here, the…
Today on Morning Edition Jennifer Ludden told the story of Billings, Montana, resident Rob Hunter, who while “[d]riving to work one dark morning in February . . . caught an NPR story about an Iraqi refugee struggling to find work in Florida. The young man, identified as Bahjat, had endured death threats and a…
What better way to get back to blogging after a 2.5 month break than with The Daily Show, Photoshop, and Rick Astley: