Please refer to my earlier post, “Google’s plans of world domination“. Then read this.
If you’ve already turned on the guide as a layer in Google Earth, you might already have noticed the patriotic stars now adorning the U.S. map. There’s one for every congressional district. Click on the star and it opens a set of links to useful voter tools. First, you can click to register to vote. I love this because so many people still think that in order to register, you need help from a government employee or political activist. Wrong. You can register yourself to vote by getting your forms online and sending them in by mail. Spread the word!
Second, there are links to news, web and photo searches for candidates for the U.S. House and Senate races on November 7. Now, I think a squirrel could figure out which way to go on our presidential candidates and political parties. But an educated vote does require some Google searching, especially when candidates try so hard to blur the differences.
And we all know what Google thinks of George Bush, although they claim otherwise!
October 24th, 2006
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Just announced. Although Google search has always been available for websites, this time it’s with a difference. Now more like the search provided by atomz, the results can be tailored more to your liking based on your theme/content. You can even add multiple websites to be searched, which opens up a whole load of possibilities.
Say for example I start a search engine on error messages in wordpress. 
So I add a bunch of websites to be searched, and others using Google Co-op can add other helpful sources they come across. In time, this search becomes the definitive search engine for wordpress troubleshooting.
Setting up is simple enough. Get started here with Google Co-op.
October 24th, 2006
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October 23rd, 2006
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Ok, since Anwin’s been repeatedly tagging (read bugging) me, I’m going to comply. These are the most popular keyword searches that lead here:
- google blog search pinging service wordpress
- renie ravin
- movies with the most f words
- mallu (Eh? Why would you look for that?!)
- nagercoil (Yay!)
- reviews of iron maiden matter of life and death
- saw3
- desi movies
- the black dahlia posters
- “google music trends”
- eragon
- iron maiden wallpapers life after death
- “gadgets for websites”
Ok, since I’m now supposed to tag someone, I choose this guy.
October 23rd, 2006
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No, it’s not a camera you use to make blowups that can be seen by passing aliens. According to this article on clarkvision.com, it’s the resolution of the human eye when compared to a digital camera.
The eye is not a single frame snapshot camera. It is more like a video stream. The eye moves rapidly in small angular amounts and continually updates the image in one’s brain to “paint” the detail. We also have two eyes, and our brains combine the signals to increase the resolution further. We also typically move our eyes around the scene to gather more information. Because of these factors, the eye plus brain assembles a higher resolution image than possible with the number of photoreceptors in the retina. So the megapixel equivalent numbers below refer to the spatial detail in an image that would be required to show what the human eye could see when you view a scene.
Based on the above data for the resolution of the human eye, let’s try a “small” example first. Consider a view in front of you that is 90 degrees by 90 degrees, like looking through an open window at a scene. The number of pixels would be
90 degrees * 60 arc-minutes/degree * 1/0.3 * 90 * 60 * 1/0.3 = 324,000,000 pixels (324 megapixels).
At any one moment, you actually do not perceive that many pixels, but your eye moves around the scene to see all the detail you want. But the human eye really sees a larger field of view, close to 180 degrees. Let’s be conservative and use 120 degrees for the field of view. Then we would see
120 * 120 * 60 * 60 / (0.3 * 0.3) = 576 megapixels.
The full angle of human vision would require even more megapixels. This kind of image detail requires A large format camera to record.
October 23rd, 2006
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Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have snapped the most detailed image ever of a pair of colliding galaxies, known as the Antenna galaxy.
The galaxies are the nearest merging pair to Earth, and the youngest too: the collision began about 500m years ago. As the two galaxies smash into one another, they create ideal conditions for new stars to be born. And new stars are forming in their billions.
What’s in this picture? According to NASA:
“Nearly half of the faint objects in the Antennae are young clusters containing tens of thousands of stars. The orange blobs to the left and right of image centre are the two cores of the original galaxies and consist mainly of old stars criss-crossed by filaments of dark brown dust. The two galaxies are dotted with brilliant blue star-forming regions surrounded by pink hydrogen gas.”
Astronomers believe that the image captured by the Hubble telescope shows a probable scenario when the Milky Way galaxy collides with the Andromeda about six billion years from now.
Hmm. I can wait.
October 23rd, 2006
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Yes, India’s on the top 10!
October 23rd, 2006
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This award winning picture was nearly deleted from the camera!
Goran Ehlme’s shot of a walrus feeding on clams on the sea floor is a whirl of grey; the animal’s face is seen poking through a cloud of disturbed sediment.
He caught the magic moment on a digital camera and deleted many unwanted shots.
“My finger was poised to delete this one too, and then I noticed something special,” he told the BBC News website.
View the rest of award winners here.
October 23rd, 2006
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October 21st, 2006
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Next time you book a domain name… look at it from every angle
- A site called ‘Who Represents‘ where you can find the name of the agent that represents a celebrity. Their domain name… wait for it… is
www.whorepresents.com
- Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views at www.expertsexchange.com
- Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island at
www.penisland.net
- Need a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at
www.therapistfinder.com
- Then of course, there’s the Italian Power Generator company…
www.powergenitalia.com
- And now, we have the Mole Station Native Nursery, based in New South Wales:
www.molestationnursery.com
- If you’re looking for computer software, there’s always
www.ipanywhere.com
- Welcome to the First Cumming Methodist Church. Their website is
www.cummingfirst.com
- Then, of course, there’s these brainless art designers, and their whacky website:
www.speedofart.com
- Want to holiday in Lake Tahoe? Try their brochure website at
www.gotahoe.com
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October 21st, 2006
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