Here’s the Friday Post #19 for October 10, 2008. Try to get your mind off the plunging stock market and consider these visual treats:
Photo credit: http://4hoursearch.com - All rights reserved – Copyright 2008
- Try a new search engine: 4HourSearch. The screenshot above shows retrievals for “alternative search engines”. The creators said they wrote the code in four hours, so that’s what they named it.
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- TimeRime.com. Here’s a very nice search tool for seeing visual portrayals of timelines. Here is an example: Milestones in the life of Barack Obama, shown below:
Photo credit: http://timerime.com – All rights reserved – Copyright 2008
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- Hey, being a knitter myself, when I found this blog, called “Why Would You Knit That?” I just had to check it out. And what I found was… a dissected frog made out of wool!? See what happens when a biologist learns to knit, at http://whywouldyouknitthat.blogspot.com/2008/09/this-is-what-happens-when-biologist.html
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Leila Boujnane // October 10, 2008 at 11:20 AM
Another suggestion to get rid of the market blues is to play with our multicolour search: this search project allows you to search 10 million creative commons photographs from flickr using colours and colours only. Up to 10 colours in total. Have a look:
http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/
but please please don’t blame me if you end up spending hours playing!
Leila
creaky15 // October 10, 2008 at 5:39 PM
Thanks, Leila, it truly is an amazing search tool! You are correct, using Multicolr Search Lab is addictive. I will write about it in a future Friday Post.
Have you seen http://Wordle.net, where you can create your own word clouds?
Thanks for sending me this link!
Creaky