Introduction

Interestingly the practice of surfing the web, jumping from one site to another, and somtimes finding gems in a sea of information has gone. Yet the artifacts are all still there to browse. Yahoo, whose humble beginnings started with 2 students cataloging and itemising the web is a case in point, rapidly taken over by the search technology of google as the web exploded. However surfing the web opens you up to new possibilities, new thinking, new trends and new horizons, whereas googling will inevitably reinforce your own limited self beliefs or the populist view of others.

I’ll be looking at different resources on the web in a highly haphazard way and hopefully bringing you a gem or two.

Comments are open, so if you know of a resource feel free to post.

Ask Jeeves – A quick experiment in change

Okay today I decided to run a little experiment. Ask Jeeves has an interesting and informative questions and answers section categorised into subject trees. I have to say I like the format from Ask Jeeves. Brabras will be the key, don’t ask why, and the control is here and here. So let’s see if we can improve on these results.

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Change Control

It will be interesting to see what change happens over time if any, keeping in mind the key brabras.

Edit: Amended 06.11.11

teenager blog

Hey my step daughter just started a blog the eternal princes

Good job shes not mad like me

Just to keep you on your toes

Heres a list of my fave alternate search engines, give em a whizz you might be surprised.

• A9
• blinkx
• collarity
• CometQ
• CONGOO
• d e c i p h o
• exalead
• FindSounds
• GIGABLAST
• girafa
• ICEROCKET
• Releton
• soople
• SPURL.net
• SurfWax
• Webaroo
• WEBBRAIN
• What to RENT?

Lateral Connections of Tag Surfing

 I’ve recently become mesmerised by tag surfing in the last few days. I adore its unconscious stream of thought, its lateral connections and the places it can take you.

 Click any tag and away you go, and there some real peaches out there. “dandelion-salad-news-or-politics” has got to be one of my faves, although its more politics and less dandelion salad, but with a tag like that you’ve just got to go and take a peep. You’d think with the new year in that Christmas would be done and dusted, but oh no “bing-crosby” is still alive and kicking, “merry-christmas” salutations are still being sent and the interest in “christmas-lights” astounding, there are blue christmas lights, green christmas lights and warm white christmas lights to name all but a very few.

 With valentines only a heartbeat or two away, you just have to explore the realm of love, but watch out there is “good-love” and “bad-love” and if you are looking for your “love-story-2050″ you’ll only find out that it is the Worst Bollywood Film of 2008. Anyway don’t be a “valentine-violet” and add “little-subtle-seduction” to your valentines this year.

 There are some interesting tags around “unyk-mobile-synch” eunuch for short, or you can check out some misspellings “bandwith” makes me giggle for some reason, still I don’t think you can beat “Microwave -Immunohistochemistry”

Trashy Lingerie: A journey through the tackier lingerie and clothing stores

Okay if this is not your thing just move along, but if you are looking for a last minute gift for your girlfriend or just like looking at girls in their underwear then this might just be for you. So without much ado check out Huts’s Clothing & Lingerie, a great jumping off place. If your needs are a little more specfic (and boring), say sports bras you could check out smart womens fitness apparel. Live in Texas? Then uscity.net has a texas lingerie page just for you. Hey, you can find out all sorts of things, like tights are back in fashion! Have fun and add cufflinks to thongs or look ahead to your holidays and add swimwear to lingerie.

Electron Microscopy Impacting on the World of Science

Microscopy: Techniques from the WWW Virtual Library is classic jumping off point, if you are interested in what’s happening in the EM world. Compiled by people who care about their topic and links to sites who care even more. Follow and enjoy, you’ll never know what you might find happening in the world of science. Molecular Imaging Home Page, Understanding Fluorescence, Development of Microwave Immunohistochemistry, Infrared-sensitive modification for Color QuickCam camera are just a few examples.