]Furniture made from bicycles.

Cool

Bike Furniture

When people post on any forum, whether it's a serious Mozart discussion forum, Something Awful, or PayMeToHumpThings.net, they usually act in a manner that's presentable to the outside world. Of course they do, because someone else is going to read that and they wouldn't want to look like a fruitcake in front of everybody. But behind that relatively normal exterior there are things they're wondering about and want to know, and they type these things where they think nobody will ever see them, like into search engines for example.

If you're more of a nerd than most, (and let's face it, you're reading Something Awful) you probably heard that a week or two ago AOL mistakenly released 3 months of logs from its AOL Search engine, and now the logs are all over the place online. AOL has already apologized for the error, but they shouldn't because these are some of the most awesome things I've ever seen.

Before we get down to business, let me explain what's happening in these images. One of our forum goons, xGryph, coded up a nice little search tool to let us easily look through the 2 gigabytes of logs. The big number on the left is an anonymous user ID AOL provided so advertisers or researchers or whoever's looking at the logs can track an individual account's search habits. Next to that is the search term used.

Someone pointed out this link to me

The Internet Makes You Stupid

Damien Gaudry never took a course in sign language, but that didn’t stop him from wanting to build an instructional tool that could lend a hand to children who want to learn.

Gaudry and two other Georgia Tech graduate students – Cindy Perreira and Russell Marzette – built an 18-inch tall robotic hand that could eventually sign the 26 letters of the English alphabet.

cool I wonder what has become of this since then.....

Tech Students Build Robotic Hand as Sign Language Learning Tool

The mission of Let's Say Thanks is to provide a way for individuals across the country to recognize U.S. soldiers stationed overseas. By submitting a message through this site you will send a free personalized postcard greeting to a deployed soldier.

The postcards, depicting patriotic scenes and hometown images, were selected from a pool of entries from children across the country.

Some of my students participated in this project by sending in art work.

Let's Say Thanks

This is an article, albiet rather short, about placing yellow chairs at or near places which have openly free wireless connectivity to encourage use of the facilities. The yellow chair concept is borne from the Yellow Bike project, where several cities have implemented free bicycles, painted yellow, which can be ridden from place to place without worry of rent, upkeep, etc.

Yellow Chairs for Free WiFi

trials ranged from ancient times (Socrates) to very modern times (Simpson), and included trials from both sides of the Atlantic (the Wilde trial from England), and from various types of courts.

For those of you that are interested in law and how these trials progressed

Famous Trials

Summer of Code 2006 is a program that offers student developers stipends to create new open source programs or to help currently established projects. Google will be working with a variety of open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund several hundred projects over a three-month period. The inaugural instance of the program, which took place last summer, brought together 400 students and 40 mentoring organizations from 49 countries. We'd like to include even more organizations and participants this year.

If this had only been around awhile ago some of you guys would already be famous

Summer of Code

blik surface graphics are oversized, geometric decals that allow anyone to quickly and easily create custom wallscapes in no time. The decals are self- adhesive and removable, so your blank walls have no excuse to be bare.

This is awesome stuff for you decorative challenged out there

Wall graphics for the urban dweller.

Website that give a large variety of options telling you virtually every event happening in ATL at any given time. Check it out!

Atlanta PlanIt

MUTE File Sharing is a peer-to-peer network that provides easy search-and-download functionality while also protecting your privacy.

Ran across this randomly

MUTE: Simple, Anonymous File Sharing