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Deadly Truck Accident Spills Millions Of Nickels On Florida's I95 [Offbeat News]

via Jalopnik by Ben Wojdyla on 9/17/08

Last night on Florida's I95 freeway a US Treasury truck carrying four million nickels was southbound on its way from Philadelphia to Miami when it collided with another southbound truck, spilling $187,000 worth of coins all over the scene. The passenger in the Treasury truck died as a result of the accident and Florida police are currently investigating the scene. Also on hand are Treasury officials attempting to clean up the mess and eager citizens trying to grab some coins and not get slapped with a Federal robbery charge. [Local6]

 

 

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Searching Google and Yahoo! Concurrently

 

 

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Searching Google and Yahoo! Concurrently

via WebWorkerDaily by Samuel Dean on 9/3/08

I've written about alternative search engines here before, and because I spend so much time searching, I always keep my eye out for good new search ideas to try. Recently, I've been using SearchBoth, which has an interesting spin on the concept of searching multiple sites at once.

SearchBoth lets you search a few different types of sites concurrently, but the one web workers may find most useful is searching Google and Yahoo at the same time. At the site's home page, you can enter your search term once, hit Search, and get back a dual-paned view of the results from both sites. For some kinds of searches, your results won't differ all that much between the two views, but for others they will.

In particular, I have found SearchBoth to be good for searching for images. For example, if I enter Linus Torvalds as my search term and toggle SearchBoth to find images, I'll get back two completely different views of Torvalds images–both scrollable as they would be when using the sites on a standalone basis–and I get a mixed bag of photos that I might want to use.

SearchBoth can also be useful for comparing prices for technology products you may be in the market for. I entered Asus Eee PC as my search term in SearchBoth, and found the lowest prices on the Google pane on the left of my screen, but for other products, Yahoo! pulled up the lowest prices.

You can also use SearchBoth to pull up news stories and blog posts that both Google and Yahoo! find. This is useful when a particular piece of news  is breaking and I want to see who may have picked it up.

If you like the idea of seeing your search results in ways that you're not used to, and you haven't tried it yet, you may also like Redzee. Redzee returns thumbnail graphical images of your results, and lets you drag to cycle through them. They cycle by very much like the Cover Flow feature works on an iPod, and this can be useful if what you're looking for is an image or graphic rather than text.

Do you use any alternative search engines?

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200,000 Core Supercomputer to be Built, Still Not As Clever as HAL [Supercomputers]

via Gizmodo by Kit Eaton on 9/4/08

Recently green-lit to be built at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IBM's future Blue Waters supercomputer is peta'd all over. It'll have up to 2-petaflops processing speed, more than a petabyte of memory and a 10 petabyte disk storage system. It'll also have more than 200,000 processor cores, and cost around $208 million, which is even more 000s. All this power is going to be used for proper hard science like simulating the Sun's coronal mass ejections, studying black holes, and molecular biology. Probably developing on IBM's previous Roadrunner supercomputer power, it should be accessible nationally, at campus-level. And you can bet someone'll program it to sing "Daisy, daisy" pretty soon after it goes online in 2011. [NetworkWorld via Slashdot]

 

 

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Yuko Adachi

 

 

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Yuko Adachi

via Changethethought™ by Christopher on 9/4/08

Interesting art in varying styles and executions by someone who no doubt must be an equally interesting person and that person is 'super fine' artist Yuko Adachi.

Artist statement:
"My work is about a celebration of human creativity and being alive in the present moment. I do not do any preliminary sketches for any of my works. I dive into the unknown and just follow where my energy and curiosity takes me in the given moment. Through the creation of my work, I want to become one with the universal energy and tap into unlimited well of my imagination and express it.

Art is love and it is my life.
-YUKO ADACHI"

 

 

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