IT Director for a non-profit in Washington, DC. Man About Internet.
I just ran across this today. Apparently this has been around since sometime in december, though, I have no idea how it wasn't floated around the usual tech news sites.
Anywho, point your firefox tab here: http://www.google.com/musicsearch
Allows you to search for Artists, Albums, Song Lyrics etc etc
Almost all the apple rumor sites, slashdot, digg & ars technica are covering this. Previous leaks say that this is the big announcement that's been due for this month. Red iPod for AIDS money? New touch-screen video iPod? New iBooks?
For more detailed info, read here.
I ran across this tip while browsing BoingBoing in class today. I can't believe that I hadn't heard of this before now. Apparently it is possible to use the english language translator for any of the google top level domains (.com, .jp. .co.uk, etc etc) and use it to view any website your employer's web filters may be blocking. I'd been getting TONS of hits in the last 2 or 3 months on tuzworld from people using this method and always wondered why people are going to google.com and having tuzworld translated into english when it was already in english.
Here is how its used: "If you are stuck behind a Boing Boing-proof firewall, you might be able to access Boing Boing using this link: http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.boingboing.net"
Also:
"Reader comment: Adjam says: " Iused that 'Google proxy' method to bypass our sysadmin's paranoid web restrictions all the time two years ago!
He would block it though, so instead of using google.co.uk /translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.somthing.com i would use google.co.jp or google.co.fr. And he was so incompetent that every now and then he'd just reset all the web restrictions without realizing it and I could use .co.uk again.""
Finally, here is a direct link to the O'Reilly page explaining this google hack.
I finished 2nd place out of 50 people in tonight's 7:00 game.
Then there was the west coast response, "Lazy Monday" Watch it here.
Now there is "Lazy Muncie", the mid-west response. Watch it here.
(Muncie takes a while to download- i recommend you save it as quicktime to your desktop)
Ok. I got to the very first picture before i sprayed my monitor with the water i was drinking due to my forthcoming laugher.
On the 22nd of December 2004, Kyle Van Horn taped a disposable camera to a piece of black foamcore and inscribed upon it the following message: "ATTENTION POSTAL WORKERS! Please help us with our project. As this camera travels across the country we want photos of all whom it encounters. Please take a photo before you pass it along. Thank you!"
