As part of its 10th anniversary Google has put up its 2001 search engine. Seven years is a lifetime; a search for "ipod" yields something called the "Image Proof of Deposit Document", while Myspace is an Australian home improvement site. Sarah Palin? "Did not match any documents".
(google.com/search2001.html)
Speaking your language
The speech accent archive is an exhaustive, fascinating compilation of accents from all over the world, from Indonesian Lamaholot to Littlehampton English. It will presumably be a huge boon to linguistic analysts at academic institutions everywhere; mainly, though, it's an excellent chance to listen to loads of really funny voices.
(accent.gmu.edu)
Stick the pin in
These are hair-tugging times, but do they really call for virtual
voodoo dolls? If there is someone you would like to stick pins in, you
can download one to your iPhone – beholder of many useful applications
and even more amusing time-wasting devices. Business Week has drawn up
a list of the 20 wackiest.
(tinyurl.com/4ur6wm)
Keep on plurkin'
Do you fancy coming over for a plurk later? It's the latest in "micro-blogging", as in: "I'm too busy to maintain my blog, social
networking site and friendship with you, so we can just have the odd
plurk from now on."
(www.plurk.com)
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