Oliver Thylmann’s Thoughts

Well… I was reading a Google article with some fun stuff in it. For example, Google only put the legal notice at the bottom of it’s homepage because when they invited a focus group over, some people were sitting at the PC waiting for the page to load, or so they thought. Google thought that putting the notice where its most often found on other pages would make it clear that the page did fully load
The most funny thing is this though, which is the top result for the search for weapons mass destruction on Google. Check it out!

This is what Cringley calls his idea to fool the RIAA and establish a new way to sell music. He mentions that no lawyer has proven him wrong yet, and even though it all sounds might complicated and totally nuts, it’s an interesting thought process. Check out the Son of Napster.

The deputy secretary of defense said yesterday that some key assumptions underlying the U.S. occupation of Iraq were wrong, tacitly acknowledging the judgment of current and former U.S. officials critical of the occupation planning.

Interesting article. Read on.

Now this is nice. Here you can catch a birds eye view of practically any address (there might be exceptions somewhere in the woods ;)) of the United States and that at a 1 foot resolution. For the very good image quality you need to come at low load times or get a subscription but it’s already good enough like it is for a small stride in the air.

We always have conspiracy theories going arround but this one is nice. The article talks about SAIC, which is a billion dollar company with 40.000 employees, privately owned, doing business for among others, the NSA. Seems that this might be an interesting place to work at. 5000 of their employees have US federal security clearance.