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!
Monthly Archives: July 2003
WMD
Son of Napster
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.
Wolfowitz Concedes Iraq Errors
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.
Fly Over the US
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.
SAIC
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. 
WOZ tags everything
The apple co-founder WOZ has now revealed what his start-up in stealth mode has been brewing up for some time. They have developed a device, which costs $25 to produce, that can be attached to pretty much anything. It will allow the owner to monitor where the device, and hence the thing that is attached to it, is. An alert could be sent when the kid arrives at school, the pet leaves the garden or the car moves away from the parking lot. Doesn’t sound to WOW really but it essentially gives you a huge sales potential of a quasi mobile phone. Many people could buy 10s of those things and companies could buy thousands! Great stuff. Check the NY Times article for more.
The Land of Sisu
The Land of Sisu is a great board on TMF and today I found this here. Bad for me that I study in english
For those of you who watch what you eat…
Here’s the final word on nutrition and health. It’s a relief to know the truth after all those conflicting medical studies.
1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
3. The Japanese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
4. The Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
5. The Germans drink a lot of beer and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
CONCLUSION: Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you.
Search again
Might very well be that I am getting obsessed with this thing. But I just read here, that the MSNBot seems to be nothing more than a research project. I presume it can become a full product but for now, it is no real threat.
Search market hotting up
The search market is really hotting up now. Overture bought Altavista and Fast Search & Transfer. Yahoo bought Inktomi. Now Yahoo bought Overture. Shortly before, FindWhat merged with eSpotting and roughly a month or two ago, the web was starting to light up with MSNBot, a new search bot by MSN, which brought the rumors rising that MSN is going into search on their own. Still, in this article, Danny Sullivan from SearchEngineWatch.com argues that what better way there is for MSN to get even than buying Google. At the same time, Google is possibly trying to go public which would make the price so high, that it starts to become unreasonable for MSN to buy them. Watch out for the search engines.
Subventionen in Deutschland
As guessed by the title, this is about the monetary support the german state gives to different people and companies in germany. Very interesting and worth remembering so I will put it here. As always, Babelfish is your Friend: Hier ist der Artikel.
