If you use the great NetNewsTracker service and you like music, you’ll love TunesTracker, which searches the iTunes Music Store daily for your favorite artists, and notify you when new songs are available. You can have up to 50 searches running at one time, and it’s all free.
Fun Stuff
Drawing with Google
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Check out Toogle, which takes your Google Images query and turns it into ASCII art (like this search for U.S. Flag). Fun stuff.
A wearable search engine
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Want to really attract attention the next time you go out (as well as see what people all over the world are searching for)? Wear a search engine belt buckle.
More Olympics Resources
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If you just can’t get enough of the Olympics, which have a week to go, here are more pages with Olympic resources:
- An Olympic Selection of Search Resources — from Search Engine Watch
- 2004 Summer Olympics — from Wikipedia
Citius Altius Fortius
By Tom Mighell on
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Those interested in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens will need to keep the following links close at hand:
- Athens 2004, the official site of the games
- NBCOlympics.com, featuring NBC’s coverage of the games
- US Olympic Team
- LII’s Olympic Games Collection
Some Things Never Change…
By Tom Mighell on
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It’s good to see that Google’s clean interface hasn’t changed any, since 1960.
Play TinyURL Roulette
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You may notice that I occasionally use TinyURL to shorten longer URLs that I include in the newsletter. If you ever wonder what kinds of sites are being saved over there, play TinyURL.com Roulette, which will serve up a random site every time you click the button.
It’s a wrap
By Tom Mighell on
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Well, the show is finally over, but I still haven’t caught up on all my sleep. Check back here tomorrow, when I’ll start posting again……
Thanks for your patience!
Tom
Off Acting Somewhere
By Tom Mighell on
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Those of you who know me know that I produce a show here for the Dallas Bar Association called Bar None. We have a lot of fun, singing, dancing, and acting for charity. This year’s show is titled Suebiscuit, and it promises to be a lot of fun.
If you happen to be…
Movie reviews with your search results
By Tom Mighell on
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Just type in a movie name at Ask Jeeves (like The Day After Tomorrow)) (don’t use quotes), and you’ll see a quick synopsis of the movie, along with links to reviews, show times, and trailers. It apparently only works with new movies, though.