Tom Stocky

"Less than 8% of people who were interviewed on this day knew what a browser was." - Tom Stocky

Pretty soon, the answer, "Google" will be a legitimate answer to the browser question. If they play their cards right with Chrome. - April Buchheit

"We've found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity. Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity." More info on how it works at http://www.google.org/flutren... - Tom Stocky

"It's now official: The country has lost more jobs as a percentage of peak employment than any time since the Great Depression." - Tom Stocky

So, Great Depression or Greatest Depression? Or Depression 2.0? Someone's tried to get something to stick already, right? - Andy Bakun

Don't be naive. Careers with full benefits and real retirements are gone, replaced by much lower-paying jobs with few benefits and rarely a retirement plan. This is unlikely to change as long as public selfishness remains the norm. We can't buy cheap at Wal-Mart and support jobs that provide a good living. The solution is working for yourself and supporting small local and online businesses. - Gail Gardner

"The paint contains an aluminium-iron oxide which resonates at the same frequency as wi-fi - or other radio waves - meaning the airborne data is absorbed and blocked. By coating an entire room, signals can't get in and, crucially, can't get out. Developed at the University of Tokyo, the paint could cost as little as £10 per kilogram, researchers say." - Tom Stocky

I must have used that paint in my last house without knowing it! - Lou Paglia

"A Place Page is a web page for every place in the world, organizing all the world's information for that place. And we really mean every place: there are Place Pages for businesses, points of interest, transit stations, landmarks, and cities all over the world. To find a Place Page, click on 'more info' in your Google Maps search results or 'more info' in the info bubble on the map." - Tom Stocky

Congrats to Avni and the Maps team! - Tom Stocky

That's super smart. I approve of this product (like that matters). - EricaJoy

Reminds me of Yelp. - beersage

"We've partnered with Life Inc. to digitize LIFE Magazine's entire run as a weekly: over 1,860 issues, covering the years from 1936 to 1972." - Tom Stocky

It's pretty interesting to see a moving visual representation of how these companies' market caps changed over time. - Tom Stocky

Another elements video -- somehow this has become a theme for the day. =) - Tom Stocky

Perhaps some of the guys I work with at Vigo University might like this - Luis Martín Vallejo

"Data sources are United Nations historical data and Goldman Sachs forecasting data. Each circle represents the size of the nation’s economy every decade from 1970 to 2050. The countries are ranked by GDP each decade from largest to smallest." - Tom Stocky

Nice visualisation, but should we trust Goldman Sachs forecasts? http://www.rollingstone.com/politic... - François Dongier

"'Meet The Elements,' a new animated music video from They Might Be Giants. This animated, upbeat ode to the periodic table of elements and how they form our world, appears on the new TMBG kids' album 'Here Comes Science.'" - Tom Stocky

Well, I was right about the last one :) Very nice this one too. - Luis Martín Vallejo

I converted my mom to Chrome 1 and she loved it immediately. I was a little surprised, and when I asked what she liked about it, she said "it's just really fast". Made me so proud :) - Joel Webber

"Early Wednesday morning, hackers installed seven notes on the great dome’s temporary scaffolding, commenting on its close resemblance to a musical score. The notes were the first seven of Rick Astley’s 'Never Gonna Give You Up.'" - Tom Stocky

"Make History is a participatory archive that invites people to share their experiences of 9/11 and its aftermath in an effort to preserve the memories of that time ... The Make History site allows people to place and then share their photos and videos in geographical context, collectively piecing together the history that was witnessed, one photo and video at a time." - Tom Stocky

I seriously thought Google Street View bot was going to lose it at the end, when he was overwhelmed with takedown/censor requests and just shut the whole project down. "You don't deserve Street View!" - Andrew C (✔)

Google should have Google Japan make the videos for all their products. - Melinda Owens

very good!!!!! - Otorino Arcadipane

"The device… draws inspiration from the heart of a cockroach which has a fail-safe mechanism. A cockroach’s heart has as many as 13 chambers, unlike the four in a human heart. As a result, failure of a single chamber in the former does not become life threatening unlike in the latter, says Guha. Moreover, the pumping of blood in a cockroach’s heart happens in a staged manner, which reduces the build up of pressure, often experienced in the human heart." - Tom Stocky

"These electrical outlet covers let you put your mobile phone on the wall as it recharges. The antlers for all three types of deer are already the perfect shape to hold things, so we hardly had to modify the forms at all. The tough urethane rubber we used for the cover holds handsets tightly, and also protects the antlers from breakage should you bump into them. Socket-deer can also be used as a cover for light switches, and the antlers make an excellent hook for keys or accessories." - Tom Stocky

One other suggestion: more sockets should be placed up at desk level, not down near the floor. - Andrew C (✔)

It's about that time ... when we shift our focus from winning the AL East to winning the wild card. 2 games ahead! - Tom Stocky

"As part of this change, developers will be able to provide screenshots, promotional icons and descriptions that will better show off applications and games. We have also added four new sub-categories for applications: sports, health, themes, and comics." - Tom Stocky

This improvement is welcomed, but I would have prefered an API that helps me to build my own market. Could you simply imagine a world where there will be only one identical shop for all countries, for all cultures, for all ages, for all products ? Sorry, I can't. Give us an API, it will help the community to build the success of the Android plateform. - Didier Girard

"To our absolute shock, we found that in any of the categories of activities that we thought their brain would be better at, that would enable them to manage multiple streams of information at one time, they're actually worse at all of them. So it's a great mystery what's going on. All we can say now is that multitaskers are lousy at multitasking." -- Prof. Clifford Nass (in the story's embedded video) - Tom Stocky

Even people with ADD might get bogged down with too many tasks at the same time. Yes they might not have the same attention span as others, but there's still an upper limit on their brain's ability to multitask. - Pandu ● IT Optimizer

Genius. - Tom Stocky

Hallmark should print a card like this... perfect if your loved one is someone familiar with flowcharts :-) - Pandu ● IT Optimizer

sweet! - Christopher Chung

And I thought that the literal video of that song was funny! http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Michal Cierniak

UBE? - τorƍue

@τorƍue - "UBE" = "unsolicited bulk email". - Andrew C (✔)

"The Beatles: Rock Band, which is to be released on Sept. 9 ... 'When they first approached me, I thought, Do I really want to do a plastic-guitar Beatles game?' [Giles Martin] said. He was persuaded to do so, he told me, after seeing how the games intensify people’s engagement with music. 'In the same way we listened to records over and over again,' he observed, 'because I don’t think kids do that anymore. They’ve got too much other stuff competing for their attention.'" - Tom Stocky

Remastered Beatles 9/09/09 baby - heretic_twit

I don't know much about the website promoted at the end, but I think the video itself is great. - Tom Stocky

News Archive Search (http://news.google.com/archive...) now includes 4x the number of articles it had last September, including the Village Voice (!) and a bunch of other publications. One of the oldest newspapers now searchable is a 1753 edition of the Halifax Gazette: http://news.google.com/newspap... - Tom Stocky