Explore the world of birds with the Internet Bird Collection
Monday July 13, 2009
If you're a birder, you will love the Internet Bird Collection, a non-profit, volunteer endeavor to collect as much information as possible about birds from all over the world. If you find and photograph or video a bird in the wild, you can upload your findings to the IBC and share it with other bird enthusiasts globally. The Internet Bird Collection offers Statistics, Forums, Videos, Photos, Sounds - pretty much anything a bird lover could ever want. It's a great way to harness the power of crowds, in this case birders, in order to create something that everyone can use.
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Search of the Week: Steve McNair and Sahel Kazemi
Saturday July 11, 2009
The top breakout search of the week ending July 10 for Google, Yahoo, and Ask was, sadly, the death of NFL star
Steve McNair and his girlfriend,
Sahel Kazemi (you can read more about this here:
Steve McNair Shot to Death,
Steve McNair - A Profile of Steve McNair,
McNair Was Shot in Sleep by Girlfriend).
According to Google Insights, the top searches were steve mcnair dead, steve mcnair, and sahel kazemi. Breaking these searches down geographically, the regions that searched the most for these terms were the United States and Mexico, with Tennessee, Mississippi, and Maryland doing the most searches.
Yahoo's Buzz Index reports Sahel Kazemi was one of the highest searches this week, outranking Steve McNair by far, oddly enough.
Ask saw spikes for this topic in the categories of Top News Searches and Top Advancing Searches; Steve McNair outpaced Sahel Kazemi for Ask.com searches. Related Ask searches were Steve McNair Biography, Steve McNair Wife, and 398 questions about Steve McNair.
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Five sites for free college courses
Friday July 10, 2009
If you've ever felt the hankering for a bit of higher education, but you don't want to pay the hefty bills that go right along with it, then here are five sites you can pick up free - yes, FREE - college courses in all sorts of subjects:
There is just a wealth of education treasures to be had here! Do you have any favorite spots on the Web where you've picked up a free bit of education? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Need crossword help? Try OneAcross
Thursday July 9, 2009
If you're a fan of crossword puzzles, and you need a bit of help (especially on that dastardly Sunday crossword puzzle!), you'll want to give One Across, a crossword search/computational engine, a try. Here's how One Across works:
- Enter your crossword clue into the "clue" field.
- Enter the pattern, i.e., the length of the word, into the "pattern" field.
Click on "Go!". One Across will run through hundreds of different words that fit your clues and give you ones that fit. Nice shortcut for those really tough crossword puzzle clues!
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