Interesting Links, August 18, 2011

Here are links I found interesting on August 18, 2011:

Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don’t Know How to Use CTRL+F – An amazing stat. I use this feature regularly to save time finding the information I need on a search results page. Do you?
The Fine Art Of Walking Out – Interesting commentary about a new trend in walking out on interviews. My question: if she's being interviewed about her book, why would she refuse to answer certain questions about the contents of that book? The interviewer may have been rude, but she was unprepared and acted like a spoiled brat.

Interesting Links, July 8, 2011

Here are links I found interesting on July 8, 2011:

Republicans Set To Repeal Light Bulb Efficiency Standard That Would Save Consumers $12 Billion A Year – The title explains the problem. Apparently, Republicans don’t see a need to save energy — or money.
Photographer creates 360-degree time-lapse movies – “San Francisco artist and programmer Ken Murphy has combined a point-and-shoot camera, a Canon firmware hack, and a motorized telescope mount to create lively, panoramic time-lapse movies.” Very cool.
If Google Buzz Is A Black Hole For Sharing Traffic, Google+ Is The Big Bang – Interesting look at the popularity of Google+ for sharing content. Maybe I’m missing the point, but it seems a lot like Facebook but without your Aunt Tilly looking over your shoulder.
TSA Screener Accused Of Stealing $50K In Electronics From Travelers – This is what happens when you give absolute power to an organization. Let them go through our luggage without supervision and we’re the ones who lose. TSA AIRPORT SCREENING IS OUT OF CONTROL! When will we make it stop?

Here are links I found interesting on May 25, 2011:

PayPal Co-Founder Hands Out $100,000 Fellowships To Not Go To College – "Peter Thiel, the PayPal co-founder and one of the first investors in Facebook, is proposing a controversial path toward more rapid innovation. Today his Thiel Foundation announced that it was giving 24 people under 20 $100,000 fellowships to drop out of school for two years to start a their own companies." My only question: where was this guy when I was 19 and halfway through college?
Was LinkedIn Scammed? – Sure looks that way to me. Investment bankers will be investment bankers, after all.
Google Street View before and after shows tornado’s true destruction – An entire neighborhood, gone in minutes.

Here are links I found interesting on February 4, 2011:

Most health solutions aren’t medical, they’re social. – This actually explains quite a bit about my gradual decline in physical health and well being as I age. I'm not motivated through social relationships to take better care of myself. What is the solution?
Official Google Blog: Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it – The details of Google's "sting" operation to catch Microsoft stealing is search results. Interesting reading, in a techie sort of way.

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Here are links I found interesting on February 1, 2011:

Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results – "Google has run a sting operation that it says proves Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they select from Google’s results, then uses that information to improve Bing’s own search listings. Bing doesn’t deny this." Interesting reading (for geeks, anyway) on SearchEngineLand.com.