If your eyes are still melting from that recent WTF Friday post just remember to breathe… And exhale…!
Call me Shev. My friends do. Old friends might call me the long form (Sheval, or Shevll), but Shev is just fine. I’m honored to be added as a contributor to this fine blog and hope to kickstart your weekend (in my dorky way) with trivia and nerdy awesomeness.
The interwebs provide so many amazing tools and distractions, so allow me to pull you away from YouTube long enough to share some bits of high-geek culture. This week there was much excitement about the new search engine, Cuil — so much so, that their servers choked on Monday. But the search results Cuil provided were less than impressive and the photos seemed random, so Cuil’s first week seems to have gone down about as easily as saltines # 4 and #5. While they get their algorithms in order, let’s take a look at a couple of Google’s less well-known offerings:
Knol: Google’s answer to wikipedia.
Got data? Are you a researcher, student, health policy wonk? Do you also like programming (or know people who do?) Display your data in pretty charts with the Google Chart API (for the serious geeks).
And speaking of the 800lb gorilla of search, mac users and web professionals should check out this silverback. It’s a whole usability testing lab in one small package.
There’s today’s geek offerings. I also do random trivia and under-used words. But I noticed Elisa’s post on treehouses from a while back and wanted to steer you all over to the coolest treehouse I’ve ever seen. Behold the spherical treehouses of Free Spirit Spheres!
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