Category: Cool

Just add [email protected] to your MSN Messenger contact list, and you can chat to Google. From the site:

The idea behind Chat to Google is to add a chat interface to the knowledge contained in the Google search engine database. In theory, Google knows everything there is to know about any subject that has ever had something written about it on a website. That is a hell of a lot of knowledge. If you talk about something that the program doesn’t know about then it simply searches for it on the web using Google and replies in a knowledgable fashion.

The thinking is that Google’s page ranking system for yielding the most relevant results for a query make it a perfect filter for almost everything you could ask about. If you ask how Chat to Google feels, it will return a statement based on the most popular feelings in the internet right now. If everyone with a webpage said they were feeling ill, then Chat to Google would also claim to feel ill.

I’m waiting for the system to get online myself so I can try it out. It probably got pretty well pummeled by its mention on b3ta, but hopefully it won’t die.

From Kim Komando’s Daily Cool Site:

What if you wanted to know how to play poker, decorate your apartment,ace a job interview, write a business plan and become a sitcom writer

and could only surf to one site. Impossible? With Soyouwanna.com, you can find out how to do just about anything.

And Kim’s right. The site’s full of stuff, written in a fun, easy to understand way that’s pretty humorous, too.

I don’t know why, but I really like how this weather forecast looks. It’s simple, nicely presented, and a good landscape-style design for the days of the week. Nice stuff!

Please, please don’t go to this site. You’ll be there all day, trust me.

Use this great tool and find out! Google has 1600 pages of UtterlyBoring.com indexed (that number’s a bit high, because it’s indexing my trackback cgi script, which is now banned in my robots.txt file).

“I just called them every five minutes and let them know that, no, I don’t have a crack in my windshield, because this seems to be something they are very concerned about,” Plaisted said. Full story.

These are the kind of people who should win the lottery — the folks who have had to work their butts off for their money (let’s just ignore her gambling habit). From Obscure Store: “Bernie” Geitka, a 54-year-old single woman who plays slot machines and who has worked four part-time jobs to buy her house, opted for the lump-sum cash option for her winnings, for a final payment of $76.1 million after taxes.

Quoting Rob’s Site with a good idea:

I’ve been thinking about September 11th. I’ve been thinking about the United States response – The Patriot Act. Invading Afganastan & Iraq. Death. Fear. Oppression.

It seems to me that this is NOT the America I want the world to know. So I propose a blogwide Photoblog your Life day on September 11th. Take your camera with you. Take pictures. Show the world your life. Show the world your daily delights. Show the world that we choose life, happiness and freedom.

This is a really cool idea, and come 9/11, I may be doing the same thing.

Update on 7/1: The main September 11th photo blog on Rob’s site has been setup here.

Because you never know when that will come in handy.

Wow, look at this Yahoo! slideshow – and READ the caption too.

I’m sooo gonna watch this after it’s on bit torrent.