Google

A few link to things Google offer, and things they are working on...

Project 10¹⁰⁰ is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.

Google Chrome, their new lightweight browser.

Web Search Features in addition to your normal searching

Free essential software selected by Google

Google Labs is a showcase of prototypes for playing with

Other Things to do with Google

Even more Google products and features to use.

*Photo via Flickr

The Big Question Mark

A few from the BBC report a 100 things we didn't know last year...

3. Adding milk to tea negates the health-giving effects of a hot brew.

16. Chimpanzees make their own spears for hunting.

19. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hosts a daily radio phone-in show.

24. The are 30,000 wild parakeets in London.

34. Kryptonite exists.

46. Peanuts can be made into diamonds.

50. Left-handed people are called sinistral.

55. Books used to be bound in human skin.

63. Cats can be police constables.

67. The brain can turn down its ability to see in order to listen to complex sounds like music.

See the website for more details, also a regularly updated version of things we did not know.

*Photo via Mark and Maria

You Are Exactly Where You Need To Be

"Learning to Love You More is both a web site and series of non-web presentations comprised of work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists...

...Participants accept an assignment, complete it by following the simple but specific instructions, send in the required report (photograph, text, video, etc), and see their work posted on-line. Like a recipe, meditation practice, or familiar song, the prescriptive nature of these assignments is intended to guide people towards their own experience...."

What Your Cat Does When Your Asleep

Scotch Tape Unleases X-Ray Power

"In a tour de force of office supply physics, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have shown that it is possible to produce X-rays by simply unrolling Scotch tape...

...Other brands of clear adhesive tapes also gave off X-rays, but with a different spectrum of energies. Duct tape did not produce any X-rays, Dr. Putterman said. Masking tape has not been tested...

Finally, there is the possibility of nuclear fusion. If energy from the breaking adhesive could be directed away from the electrons to heavy hydrogen ions implanted in modified tape, the ions would accelerate so that when they collided, they could fuse and give off energy — the process that lights the sun."