Google's global mental health check
Google chose today to deliver their "Zeitgeist", the annual psychological health check for the collective consciousness of internet users conducted by statistical analysis of the billions of search requests made each year. The prognosis for humankind is not good.
What concessions to the ailing economy? In the UK, "jobs" is now the tenth most searched term, [...]
By Jack Riley | Notebook - A selection of Independent views - | Wednesday, 10 December 2008 at 3:27 pm
A word from the Redditor-in-chief
Maybe it was unfair of me to describe Reddit as a "wonderful, warped, geeky collection of links, pictures and videos" last week. Its culturally-literate users have a dedication to liberal thought and politics which marks them out from the community of certain other news aggregator sites (*cough* Digg *cough*). I stand by what I said about [...]
By Jack Riley | Notebook - A selection of Independent views - | Tuesday, 25 November 2008 at 4:40 pm
Post Barack'n'Roll with Death Cab For Cutie
Back in May, when Death Cab For Cutie front man Ben Gibbard did his best to drum up support for a man who, at the time, seemed a million miles from the White House, the crowd in which I stood to watch them play were unsure what to make of the political outburst for Barack [...]
By Jack Riley | Notebook - A selection of Independent views - | Tuesday, 25 November 2008 at 11:10 am
Top of the songs-to-resuscitate-someone-to Pops
A team from the University of Illinois medical school has found that the optimum tempo at which to perform CPR on someone who has just suffered a heart attack is 100 beats per minute. Attempting to help make the figure easily remembered in a crisis, the researchers suggested a song as a reference point for [...]
By Jack Riley | Notebook - A selection of Independent views - | Friday, 17 October 2008 at 6:52 pm
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