OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Online Photo DB: Stage 4o – Evaluation of Picasa Web

Facial Fatigue

Here’s a little anatomy practical you can try at home.

Relax your face, and then calmly say the words “Double-you Tee Eff” out aloud. Note which muscles are used.

Now, repeat the experiment, but this time say the words “What the fuck?” out aloud.

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Free Beer from Google = Brewgle?

In which Julian offers free* beer at the first OddThinking Meet Up in Sydney, sponsored by our good friends at Google.

* That’s not free as in freedom, it is free as in beer!

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Categories: About OddThinking
Tags: advertising, alcohol, Google, meet, oddthinking

Australian Parliament may harm your computer.

I hope by the time you read this, the problem will be fixed, but embarrassingly, our parliament has been taken over by hackers – and a full 6 months ahead of my plans!

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Robots.txt Boost: Don’t record these URLs

I am in a dilemma about how to tell Google to not index my pages.

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Categories: Insufficiently Advanced Technology,S/W Dev
Tags: Google, HTML, robots.txt, search engines, web

Is Google Search sexist?

Is Google objectifying women, by suggesting the most important thing about them is photos of their bodies?

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Categories: Geek,Observation
Tags: experiment, Google, names, sexism, statistics, web

Million Dollar Idea: Google Vote

Here’s my pitch to Google. We will offer a new service to millions of Internet users of voting age – Google Vote!

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We are all unique – some more so than others

A prediction about people and Google-uniqueness

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Categories: Geek,Thoughts from the Shower
Tags: Google, names, predictions