wordie

Wordie

"Wordie is for people who love words. Start by making word lists: words you love, words you hate, words on a given topic, whatever. Add citations, comments, and tags. See who else has listed the same words. Try checking out a random word. And join the discussion--Wordies are friendly!"

The Book Design Review - Best Book Covers of 2007

The Book Design Review

Amusing America - SFPL.org

Exhibitions - Online Exhibits - Amusing America - SFPL.org: "Amusing America is the premiere exhibition of the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, co-sponsored by the San Francisco Public Library with support from the California State Library. Amusing America is the story of participatory commercial amusements in American cities—San Francisco in particular—and how they changed the way Americans lived. "

Legal Technology - Federal Court Records Opened to the Public

Legal Technology - Federal Court Records Opened to the Public: "The public will receive free access to federal court records at 16 libraries in 14 states in a joint, two-year project by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts and the Government Printing Office."

Bletchley Park's Colossus codebreaker to race modern PC in cracking Nazi codes - Boing Boing

so cool...
Bletchley Park's Colossus codebreaker to race modern PC in cracking Nazi codes - Boing Boing: "Tony Sale and a group of British vintage computer enthusiasts is rebuilding Colossus, the gigantic proto-computer that Alan Turing and the Bletchley Park scientists built to crack German codes during WWII. The original Colossus machines were all broken up (into pieces 'no bigger than a man's hand'!) after the war for security reasons, but Sale has tracked down the surviving Colossus engineers and is making great strides in completing the machine. The finished Colossus is to be pitted against a contemporary general-purpose PC in a code-breaking race. The raw fodder for the race is a set of messages encrypted using Nazi ciphers and transmitted by amateur radio enthusiasts in Germany."

Official Google Blog: Where's my Gphone?

Official Google Blog: Where's my Gphone?

"Despite all of the very interesting speculation over the last few months, we're not announcing a Gphone. However, we think what we are announcing -- the Open Handset Alliance and Android -- is more significant and ambitious than a single phone. In fact, through the joint efforts of the members of the Open Handset Alliance, we hope Android will be the foundation for many new phones and will create an entirely new mobile experience for users, with new applications and new capabilities we can’t imagine today.

Android is the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices. It includes an operating system, user-interface and applications -- all of the software to run a mobile phone, but without the proprietary obstacles that have hindered mobile innovation. We have developed Android in cooperation with the Open Handset Alliance, which consists of more than 30 technology and mobile leaders including Motorola, Qualcomm, HTC and T-Mobile. Through deep partnerships with carriers, device manufacturers, developers, and others, we hope to enable an open ecosystem for the mobile world by creating a standard, open mobile software platform. We think the result will ultimately be a better and faster pace for innovation that will give mobile customers unforeseen applications and capabilities."

FreeRice

FreeRice

Fun vocabulary game! For each one you get right, FreeRice donates 10 grains of rice through the UN to help end world hunger. Play lots, 10 grains ain't much!

Google and MySpace, sittin in a tree...

It’s Official: Google MySpace = OpenSocial

The official news is out on the MySpace and Google deal, first rumored earlier today. The big news: the two companies have actually been working together on OpenSocial all along, which launches officially tonight. From the jointly issued news release:

“MySpace, the world’s largest social network, and Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that they are joining forces to launch OpenSocial— a set of common APIs for building social applications across the web. The partnership spearheads an initiative to standardize and simplify the development of social applications. Today’s announcement underscores MySpace’s commitment to supporting standards that foster innovation in an increasingly social Web.”

KitchenBug Brings the Ultimate Social Recipe Application, 1000 invitations

KitchenBug Brings the Ultimate Social Recipe Application, 1000 invitations: "KitchenBug could be described best as a social recipe application. It allows you to create, bookmark and share recipes in a very seamless way. kbug2.jpgYou can store all your recipes within the website by just adding the URL of a page or copy-pasting the text you wrote in your word processor. The interesting part is what is happening around this process, where the service generates a suggestion of tags for the recipe. The best part is when you write a recipe they automatically suggest ingredients and link them to Wikipedia for further reference. It is also interesting because it brings a sort of semantic structure to recipes which helps in better search and classification. However for now their search engine is would work better with an auto-suggest or advanced search feature for example . KitchenBug has all the usual social features for interacting and sharing content with your friends (rating, comments,…)."