Google Killer?
New Web search engine Cuil.com, named in part as a nod to Finn McCool, claims to have indexed three times as many Web pages as Google—and they don’t track your personal footsteps. Read about it at Umbrella News and/or SitePro News.
Archive for July 30th, 2008
Hasbro Shuts Down Scrabulous
Another good argument that, once again, the old school just don’t get it.
Demystifying Writing
As a poet, I love the art of words. Reading Wallace Stevens, or translations of Tomas Tranströmer, I only wish I could be so artistic.
New Poet Laureate Announced—An “Outsider”
A remedial English instructor, Kay Ryan has been selected as the next U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant to the Library of Congress (the full, official title). Check out the Time article.
MS “Mojave” Experiment
In a “blind taste test,” Microsoft got regular people to try Vista without knowing it was Vista.
As a platform-agnostic fellow, I’m like, “Whatever.”
The problem isn’t the OS, which my experience and research shows to be a step up in security and stability from XP, which was itself a step up from Win98. Rather, the problem is that every time MS upgrades its OS, one of the main reasons for staying with Windows—the wealth of software available for it—gets strained. Oh, that and the fact that my old hardware won’t run it.