Search the 2001 web with Google's oldest available index
Posted: September 30, 2008
I'm having some great fun this morning playing around with Google's index from January 2001 (made available to celebrate Google's 10th birthday). Results also link through to the Internet Archive so you can see what those sites looked like at around the same time. Some fun queries: site:wikipedia.com (they hadn't moved to t...
U.S. Economic Cycles Since 1948 (chart)
Posted: September 29, 2008
With all this talk of the sorry state of the U.S. and U.K. economies, it's easy to forget about the good times. Harvard Business has a great interactive chart showing economic cycles in the U.S. over the last 60 years. If you step away from the screen, and squint a little, it looks exponential. Click through to Harvard [...]...
Sweetcron will help you stalk me
Posted: September 02, 2008
Yongfook is a crazy-awesome “web producer” (php nerd with social sense) and has just released Sweetcron, a simple way to aggregate your web activity on your own site. I'm planning to play around with it for a while, and hopefully move all of my short-form stuff from other places on the web to my Sweetcron lifestream. [...]...