http://www.thestar.com/living/article/726499--flarf-the-poetry-of-googled-search-terms
Riddles; is curry an acid or a base; are dreads sexy; the difference
between a sea and an ocean; fish that clean other fish; the life and times
of Scrooge McDuck; what's my zip code; where does the money go? -By Kate
Dawson and Ori Barbut, from 'Searchbar History Vol. 1'
https://sslearthquake.usgs.gov/ens/
This system provides automated free email and email-based SMS text message
notification for worldwide earthquakes.
The U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program Earthquake
Notification Service (ENS) is a customizable system provided free to
everyone. You can receive earthquake notifications for any earthquakes
located by the ANSS/NEIC (Advanced National Seismic System/National
Earthquake Information Center) in the U.S. and around the World.
Information for earthquakes in the U.S. is generally available within 5
minutes; information for earthquakes elsewhere in the World is generally
available within 30 minutes.
Customizable Options:
* Functional in English and Spanish
* Specify your local time zone
* Specify affiliation
* Aftershock exclusion option
* Update Notifications option
* Defer Notifications option
* Add, remove, or change multiple email addresses (up to 15)
* Define multiple notification profiles
* Activate/Deactivate each profile individually
* Set notification magnitude thresholds for night and day hours
* Receive emails in 3 formats: long, short (for pagers and cell
phones), and raw CUBE format messages.
* Create a notification profile region from a list of predefined regions
* Create a rectangular profile region from four specified lat/lon points
* Specify a circular profile region from a center point and radius, or
pick it on a map
* Make a custom polygon profile region by picking points on a map, or
uploading XML
* Select seismic networks to receive events from (scientists only;
default is to receive from all networks)
* Remove profiles
* Manage/Delete account
http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/welcome
This site was created under a Memorandum of Understanding between
NASA/JPL-Caltech and Microsoft.
[excerpt]
"Daily Show" producer Ramin Hedayati spends his morning flipping back and
forth between the "Today Show" and "The Early Show," glancing at major
news sites and political blogs and reading The New York Times. When he
gets into the office, he scans through news shows recorded on the office's
13 TiVos and looks for glaring inconsistencies, misleading reports and
humorous soundbites.
While watching Sean Hannity's coverage of an anti-health-care-reform rally
at the Capitol last week, he knew something wasn't quite right. "I
remember saying to myself …'There couldn't be a more beautiful day for
this rally.' Then all of a sudden it went to cloudy footage," said
Hedayati. "Hannity used footage from Glenn Beck's 9/12 rally to make his
rally look bigger … We were surprised that no one else caught it."
Hannity responded last week to the show's uncovering of the inconsistency,
saying the video switch-up was an "inadvertent mistake."
While its touts itself as a comedy show first and foremost, "The Daily
Show" is also an unabashed media critic and ombudsman of sorts that
exposes journalists' wrongdoings and shortcomings.
