Happy St Patrick's Day to all you lads and lasses...One of the good things about Google is their doodles remind you of holidays that you may well overlook...In NYC, and Hell's Kitchen it means drunken reveler's in every bar all day long...But I'm wearing the green in honor of me Irish mum...Otherwise, this is isn't really among my favorite holidays... ...
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Molly the owl is in a box in California sitting on two eggs waiting for her babies to hatch. They're expected to come out any day now, so watch and be riveted by the cuteness (and the adorable noises Molly makes).
Please also notice the Google Ad in the above screen cap. It reminded me of those Ann Coulter ads we sometimes get here at !! omg blog !!.
Watch the Owl Cam here.
(Thanks to CB for the tip!)
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The best of the '80s (He-man, duh) meets the worst of the '90s (4 Non-Blondes) in this gaytacular dance video. YOU MUST stick with it until the 1:30 mark when it speeds up, and I promise you will be rewarded. Of course, I'm a fool for Prince Adam no matter what he does. It's funny the things you find when you type "He-Man gay?" into Google.
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L.A. Times article about the Fargo Street bicycle climb. Fargo Street, at 30°, is the steepest street in Los Angeles. Google Streetview has some good photos. The front and rear cameras on the Google car flatten out the hill, but the left and right images are corrected for the steep angle, so you can actually appreciate the grade without having to ride it yourself.
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The BLM has a map that shows a simple driving route and a simple walking trail. Nonsense. There are trails going everywhere and there are no markers to indicate what the BLM thinks is the preferred trail. As for roads, there are also many of those. Some have been blocked off, but there are many more than the map shows or that my GPS is aware of.
The rest of my photos of Trona Pinnacles.
Google satellite view of the Trona Pinnacles.
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You might have discovered this too: Sometime around 3AM every day YouTube closes down for a few hours and if you happen to go there, all you'll find are a seemingly endless display of random Google pages and some sparkling "pardon the interruption" muzak. Weird. Who knew? (via Urlesque)
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PSYCHE.
Butterface is the first face of the new Power of Print Campaign–an effort of major magazine publishers to lure back advertising dollars that have been lost to the web, The Wall Street Journal reports. An estimated $90 million of ad space has been donated for the campaign, –and the first advert will feature Butterface in a two-page spread titled “We Surf the Internet, We Swim in Magazines.” ESPN The Magazine will be the first to run the campaign.
“The Internet is exhilarating,” the ad copy reads. “Magazines are enveloping. The Internet grabs you. Magazines embrace you. The Internet is fleeting. ... Flag post
Created in the desert not far from the site of Burning Man, you can see a zoomable aerial image of the temporary, 9-mile diameter artwork. To appreciate the scale, the artist created this image showing an overlay of the artwork on central Manhattan:
A Google maps version is here. More info on the creation of the image can be found here. There click on "Explanation" for an, umm, explanation. ... Flag post
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This is the USGS-provided map showing the 8.8 and its 27 aftershocks during the subsequent 8 hours. The smallest quake shown is 5.0. There are several 6.-somethings. Here's the current USGS map of the area. Google map.
It's got a WikiPedia page. Today's quake was epicentered only 20 km from the epicenter of the 9.5 Valdivia quake that occurred in 1960. That was the biggest measured quake ever. ... Flag post Flag post
Brad, of PopSlingers Paradise, posted about this club and I just had to myself.
The “Flight Attendant Appreciation Club,” or FAAC, was founded by a man named Craig. Flying from San Francisco to London in Business Class on a lightly booked flight, the passengers and crew were joking around. One passenger made the comment that “each passenger could have their own flight attendant” since there were more of them than passengers. The crew heard the comment and decided to play along, and each one attended to one or two passengers.
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Image by erjkprunczyk via FlickrSource: Tetu
By Habibou Bangré
Lesbiennes et droit d'asile: le cas de Vanessa
Les lesbiennes qui migrent en France fuient généralement les persécutions homophobes de leur pays. Une fois arrivées, le plus dur commence: obtenir l’asile. TÊTUE a recueilli le témoignage de Vanessa.
Au Cameroun, Vanessa* a tout vécu de l'homophobie. L'exclusion, la discrimination, les arrestations, les insultes, les coups... En 2006, la coupe est pleine. Visa en poche, elle fuit aux Pays-Bas. «Peu importe où j'allais! Tout ce que je voulais, c'était partir sur une terre où je n'aurais pas à payer pour vivre!», explique cette ... Flag post 
I Blog. I Twitter.I Flickr.I Facebook.I *don't* Buzz.Computer guru David Pogue explains new Google Buzz in simple terms and the surrounding criticism and controversies. Roger highlights the privacy concerns of Google Buzz.I think I'm gonna ignore Google Buzz and hope it just goes away.I'm pretty socially media exhausted...Also still adjusting to those newest FaceBook layout changes...Sheesh. ... Flag post Flag post
