June 1st, 2008 ecoli
I’m sure I’m not the only who has noticed:
Google has changed it’s favicon, the icon that appears on the left hand side of the URL in most web browsers . They’ve moved away from their traditional upper case, classic “G”, to a lowercase “g.” Are they going for a sleeker look? Does this mark some bigger change in google?
We can only speculate, but I think they made the switch because Google is no longer just a company name, but a word that has become synonymous with the (now with a properly lowercase “i”) internet. “To google” has entered the ranks of English dictionaries, at least some online ones, as meaning:
to search for information on the Internet, esp. using the Google search engine
Google isn’t just a company anymore. It ‘belongs’ to the people, the internet-using public.
More on the story at the Google Blogoscope.
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June 1st, 2008 ecoli
Cooking has always struck me as a potentially analytical and scientific process. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that some of the best scientists and thinkers I know are also excellent chefs. I stumbled across this site during a recipe hunt for ratatouille. Seems like a great site for all of us scientist/engineer chefs.
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June 1st, 2008 ecoli
This site is a bit frightening (and I’m not just talking about page layout taken from 1998). The site logs all the incidents of sexual abuse that the police catch on Myspace. There are literally hundreds of cases listed on the site.
If anyone was skeptical that there is a “Myspace problem” before, this site will definitely remove all doubt. It highlights the need for parents to become more aware of what your children are doing on the computer, and for parents to stay ahead of their children in terms of computer literacy.
There are hundreds of parents out there who seem to simply not care what their children get up to on the internet, and that’s simply unacceptable.
Thanks for Kim Komando for telling her listeners about the site on her radio show this morning.
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