Takeout Stuff from Work
How to download your work email, files, contacts, etc. if your employer uses the Goog.
Tagged with google
StateStats
StateStats "shows you how popular a Google search query is in each U.S. state."
The first thing I tried was [zines], which appropriately showed Oregon as having the most searches on that term, followed distantly by Washington, with New York in third with just under half as many searches.
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fuck google ask me
I'm always saying I wish I could wear a uniform to work so I wouldn't have to figure out what to wear everyday. And now I've found it: a t-shirt that says,
Ask Me!
Seen on The Googlization of Everything.
Stop giving at the Microsoft Office
NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative is hosting a training, or really an "untraining," meaning the event's program will be devised at the beginning of the day, based on the attendees' preferences, on using OpenOffice, the open source rival of MS Office. (I wonder if there will be any discussion of the Mac version, NeoOffice.) The event will be held at Google's NYC offices, so there may be some talk about Google docs and the like, as well.
June 5th, 2008 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, 76 9th Avenue. Register.
Googling with the Russians
Here's a little report back from the Google and Libraries conference I attended on Monday. The conference was organized to be part of ILIAC (International Library Information and Analytical Center)'s Tenth International Workshop: "Digital Resources and International Information Exchange: East-West." It was held at Columbia University on Monday, March 10, 2008.