Senses Working Overtime

memry

Link: :: PIM PAM PUM :: memry.

Flickr based memory game...
fun for a few minutes...

Podscope

Link: Podscope.

Fairly nifty spoken word search engine for Podcasts.Still in beta but looks very promising...

Bitty Browser embedded mini-browser

Bitty Browser embedded mini-browser

So cool, I originally had one in the previous post but the site design  made it look lousy and the RSS feed version didn't include the enclosure links so I 86'd it. Even in the example below I had to make the browser extra tall just so you could tell there was a site there to browse. This isn't Bitty browser's fault,  obviously, the Mystifyingly Glad site isn't designed for small screens. The Bitty Browser site shows a number of fine examples of sites that are very usable in the embedded format.

Guess-the-google

Link: Grant Robinson : Guess-the-google launcher.

After creating Montage-a-google, several people wrote to me suggesting I make a game based on the same technology. Montage-a-google is a simple web app that uses Google's image search to generate a large gridded montage of images based on keywords (search terms) entered by the user. Guess-the-google reverses this process by picking the keywords for you, the player must then guess what keyword made up the image - it's surprisingly addictive.

Google GlobeTrotting

Link: Google GlobeTrotting: Home.
via Cynical-C Blog

Best yet of the Google Map Sat. Image collections - user submitted captures of the worlds coolest loctions as seenfrom space. My current faves include The Statue of Liberty, The Uffington White Horse, Mount St. Helens and Shea Stadium (though non-Mets fans may prefer the likes of Fenway, Wrigley or Yankee Stadium)

Senses Surfing Overtime : Cool Tools

• 10x10 / 100 Words : Nifty news presentation thingy
• G-Tools Amazon helper: Tool for streamlining the prodcut review/amazon associate link creation process.
• YaGoohoo!gle: Dual pane search results - get it while it's hot and before two sets of high paid legal teams start sending out the C&D's
• Google Maps: Have added Satelite imagery to the service - while not massivly useful certainly very cool.
• Image Shack: Image hosting for blogs, mesasage boards and so on...
• The Annotated New York Times: Blogosphereric reactions to NY Times articles.

Call Center Voice Fun

Link: Rhetorical TTS :: interactive demo for all languages and voices.
via Musicthing

Nifty interactive demo from a company that creates those call center robo-voices we've all come to know and love/loathe. Enter up to 250 characters and select the voice you'd like to hear read your text (everything from Brit accents to Valley girls) and either stream or download the result. So cool...

Music Thing has worked up some fun examples...

Yahoo! Buzz Images and News

Link: Yahoo! Buzz Images and News.

Snazzy app utilizing Yahoo Search to present Yahoo buzz feeds, images, and news stories in a cool new way...

The Rasterbator

The Sect of Homokaasu - The Rasterbator

via Lots of Co

The Rasterbator is a web service which creates huge rasterized pictures out of relatively small image files. The pictures can be assembled into extremely cool looking posters up to 5 meters in size! Enter the gallery to see what the images look like.

Classic Computer Magazine Archive

Classic Computer Magazine Archive

Here's a long forgotten block of Memory Lane I'd thought had been torn down long ago. The computer magazines of my youth achived for posterity - Antic, STart, Creative Computing and more - they have a couple of hundred full text issues up so far.

Very nifty...

Stuffed Animal MP3 Flash Drive

Stuffed Animal MP3 Flash Drive

via Gizmodo >> Player Blog

My daughter wants one - now.
My wife wants one - now.
Disney's lawyers may want one now as well.

Yahoo! News - "Toothing" latest hi-tech sex craze

Yahoo! News - "Toothing" latest hi-tech sex craze

"Flirting is fun, sex is fun. We're just employing expensive, complex toys to find the most basic form of entertainment."

Isn't this just too charming...nothing like a bit more anonymous, casual, probably pretty unsafe sex. Yeah, that's just what we needed...

Vintage Electronics Have Soul - The Pocket Calculator Show Website

Vintage Electronics Have Soul - The Pocket Calculator Show Website

via web zen

Purpose of Pocket Calculator Show:

to collect and celebrate personal memories of all integrated circuit-based consumer products from the electronics revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. Share your original stories related to the golden age of consumer electronics, and together we'll demonstrate why there has never been another era abounding more originality, excitement and SOUL!!!

I just spent way too much happy time at Nerd Watch.

The Memespread Project: Spread this Meme!

The Memespread Project: Spread this Meme!

What is the Memespread Project? I am conducting an experiment about the spread of memes and information flow on the Internet. By analyzing where a link has been injected into the blogspace and then watching the ensuing hits to that site, the temporal and spatial spread of this piece of information can be measured.

BananaSlug

BananaSlug

"With normal Google searching, there are many web pages that you may never have a chance to see. So BananaSlug throws in a random word from a category of your choice. This results in pages you probably overlooked. They all have your search term in them, but the added twist gives you something new every time!"

Salon.com Technology | Watchdogs slam Google's new e-mail service

Salon.com Technology | Watchdogs slam Google's new e-mail service

Give me a break. If Google had hidden its intentions of scanning your email to help produce relevant ads then that would be something to complain about. The service hasn't even launched yet and the self-serving, self appointed privacy watchdogs are already foaming at the mouth about something Googles been totally upfront about.

Gmail is offering a service that needs to be paid for - targeted ads is how they will pay for it - for you. You don't have to sign up and if you do you certainly don't have to use it for any sensitive correspondence. Grow up people!

Two typically moronic quotes:

The enthusiastic response to Gmail probably is being driven by the chance to get so much e-mail storage space for free, said Chris Hoofnagle, associate director for the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

What a brilliant observation!

"It's not a great deal. Individuals would be throwing away the protections of their communications for a few dollars," Hoofnagle said. "We don't see this as any different than letting a company listen in on your phone conversations and letting the Postal Service open your mail."

Yeah, a free gig of storage supported by ads for products and services I might actually be interested in. What a lousy deal. The only lousy thing here is the absurd analogy.

There is one aspect of the privacy groups concern that may be valid - Google says that "...residual copies of e-mail may remain on our systems, even after you have deleted them from your mailbox or after the termination of your account". Still, hardly reason enough to start comparing Google to "Big Brother" and all the other anti-establishment clichés that are being trotted out. (Soon I imagine we'll hear Gmail described as a "quagmire" - Google's "Vietnam".)