Favorite techie license plate spotted lately:
GREP IT
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It had better be!
Just a few miles away from Incredible Cafe.
I wonder if they have a rivalry of sorts?
And I can’t help but imagine a third competing restaurant called Incredibly Fantastic Cafe…and another called Fantastically Incredible Cafe…
For the record: I ate there and had a grilled ham & cheese sandwich with seasoned fries, and it was good enough but nothing special. The place gave me the impression that someone had bought a Carl’s Jr. and turned it into something more like a Denny’s. Fantastic Cafe (not Incredible Cafe) appears to be a local chain in the South Bay area.
Most people don’t know how to use Ctrl+F
Wow: A researcher studying the way people use computers found that most people don’t know how to search for a word on the current page!
Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don’t Know How to Use CTRL+F
Google’s resident search anthropologist, Dan Russell, dropped this incredible statistic on us. And no, he couldn’t believe it either.
To someone used to using computers, it seems so basic, but I guess if no one shows you it’s there, it’s the kind of thing that’s not easy to discover on your own. (via Slashdot)
The article doesn’t actually say which side of the 90/10 split people using toolbar buttons or menu items to search fall on, but it does mention people paging through an entire document to look for something by eye.
Noisy are the Ori
I wonder if we should call Stargate SG1 about this?
(Trying to dry out the carpet after the plumbing leak soaked it.)
A Radical Notion
I’ve accepted, even embraced the return of “awesome” over the last few years. But I’m seeing signs that “rad” is making a comeback, and I really hope that’s not the case. Some slang is worth preserving and maybe even incorporating into the language over time.
Some…isn’t.
I mean, it’s dudical to the max, daddy-o!
Web Intents
Cool idea: Google is designing a “Web intents” system for web apps similar to intents in Android. For those who haven’t used Android, “intents” allow apps to register actions they can take — such as “I can share (or edit) images!” — and other apps to hand data over to them. That way your camera app doesn’t need to know about every possible image-sharing or editing app you can put on your phone.
Now they’re extending the idea to web applications. There’s a JavaScript-based proof of concept, and they’re planning to add native support to Chrome.
Originally posted on Google+
Update: While it would have been cool, Web Intents never got off the ground. Paul Kinlan describes what happened.
Looking “Up”
I spotted this sign after cresting a hill and laughed so hard I knew I had to turn around and come back to take a picture.