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It’s that time of year, and the search engines are starting to release their lists of top search words/phrases. First up is Lycos: Top 100 of 2005 – Paris Hilton is #1 Top Women of 2005 – Paris Hilton is #1 Top Fads of 2005 – Poker is #1
Talk Digger is a meta-search engine. It asks major search engines: “Who links that URL?” The results will then be processed and displayed on Talk Digger. It’s a neat idea, that pulls several free resources into one place. For instance, visiting http://www.talkdigger.com/index.php?surl=http://potd.chrisempey.com will let you know who is linking (or talking) about Chris’ Photo of …
One of the classic shows from Christmas past is the stop-motion animated Rudolph. It first showed in 1964 on NBC and apparently is the “longest running, highest rated television special in the history of the medium.” TVParty.com has an excellent write-up about the production. It talks about some deleted scenes, the music of the show, …
Who is St. Nicholas? Who is Santa Claus? Are they the same? Find out here. This interesting site explains Christmas traditions in countries around the world, as well as explains who St. Nicholas was, and what that has to do with Santa Clause. Visit the St. Nicholas Centre web site
I read about this in the Unofficial Microsoft Office Stuff blog: What is original fifties clipart? Most communities in the fifties had small town print shops that doubled as printers of local news and advertising papers. These printers could not afford graphic artists so they used stock clipart supplied by large companies who distributed common …
Amazing stuff from the The Unofficial Google Weblog: I find myself browsing through the Google Video blog tonight as a last-ditch avoidance of sleep. (I hit Starbucks at 7pm; a lethal REM-killing tactic.) I can do without the Hilary Duff video of which Google seems to be proud. And all those cooking clips? Please—enough. But …
TELUS is a major cellular provider in Canada. Their marketing has been very creative by using very colourful (digitally coloured) animals in their ads. There have been chameleons, rabbits, frogs, and more. If you like this sort of things, then visit their “cool stuff” web site. You can download a screensaver that has all the …
Microsoft announced a couple of weeks ago their “Live” product line. They are trying to get more into the web services market, by providing a better email experience online, as well as some form of Microsoft Office online. As of now, here are a few of the betas that you can try or sign up …
I read about this in the November 10, 2005 issue of Computing Canada (althought I can’t find it posted on their site. Stooples is a site that has imaginary office supplies that we may wish we had. There’s the Pocket Shredder (“let’s you destroy sensitive documents even when lawyers are present”), the Back Patter (I …
DHTML “refers to web pages that use a combination of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS to create features such as letting the user drag items around on the web page, some simple kinds of animation, and many more.” DHTML is very cool. The site http://dhteumeuleu.com/ by Gerard Ferrandez is a great example of what can be …