Only on eBay

Over the years, people have auctioned off their virginity, their foreheads, food with sacrilegious caricatures, Princess Amidala’s underpants… a recently divorced man even put his “life” up for bid. The latest two big bid bonanzas aren’t as radical, but they are for good causes.
The 90-foot tall Original Pacific Wheel at Pacific Park [...]

Google’s version of Yahoo’s Search Assist

You knew it was coming, you might have even seen or used the private tests, you might even argue that it was on G Labs/toolbar prior to Y! launch, but anyways, Google’s public test version of Yahoo’s Search Assist drop-down has finally launched today.
As to be expected, the big G’s autocomplete suggestion drop-down is [...]

Another Leisure Suit Larry game?

No, this isn’t an April Fools joke. Looks like Vivendi/Universal is putting out another Leisure Suit Larry game, only it’s a continuation of the previous abortion of an adventure game, Magna Cum Laude. Now, I’m hoping they fix at least some of the monumental problems with that game, but the game description on sierra.com isn’t [...]

Did your child eat battered cows?

“Downer Cows”, or cattle much too weak to stand on their own, left to lay in their own (and fellow cows’) feces for hours, obviously have a higher risk of disease, obviously are in excruciating pain. Less obvious is how workers for Westland/Hallmark Meat Company continued to illegally and inhumanely kick, shock, and drag [...]

Great scott Marty! GM’s making fuel out of trash for less than $1/gallon!

When you saw Doc Brown in Back to the Future II “gassing up” his time-traveling DeLorean with banana peels and garbage, didn’t you think “wow, what a great idea! Why doesn’t someone get on making that a reality?” GM execs must’ve thought that, too.
General Motors, close to being toppled as the world’s top-selling [...]

New Naruto games for Wii and DS

So this one is for you folks who actually dig Naruto. I’ve still not made it through a full episode of the show, so I’ve no real knowledge of these games, but heck, they’re Wii and DS games. The former even looks to play like the old Sega Dreamcast great, Power Stone. Below are press [...]

Update from Chris and Link Blowout

This past week has been pretty insane. Between school projects, work, and midterms, there hasn’t been much time left for films. But, this weekend is looking to be killer. I’ll be back on track with reviews for the upcoming indie flick, The Man in the Chair, as well as a return to regular Dreamlogic fare [...]

Yahoo! News . New Yahoo! news video

I know that post title is ridiculous, but I’m too sleepy to care.
Here’s a video clip that ran on the local CBS channel proclaiming our cool little launch. My boss, Larry Cornett (VP of Search UED) is featured uncharacteristically buttoned-down and pressed. Aww, so cute~!
Also featured is my neighbor in [...]

Yahoo! News . New Yahoo!

Do you Yahoo? You may want to see what we’ve launched last night (click on the image below to try it out yourself). It’s come a long way since the first-ish pass.
I love that a search for “dreamlogic” brings up “wife+chris” on the first Search Assist drop-down panel. The subsequent panel (shown [...]

Ebert and Roeper, Now Without Thumbs

So, you’ve probably heard about Disney renegotiating Ebert’s contract pending his return to Ebert and Roeper, but you might not know about them removing the use of Ebert’s trademarked “Thumb” system. Basically Disney no longer wanted to pay Ebert for its use. You can read Ebert’s own statement about the issue here.
What I was suprised [...]

Yahoo! News . Customers happier with Yahoo! over Google

The Search Engine world is fickle with customer quality assurance and innovation at its pinnacle. Nothing beats being smack in the heart of innovation valley.. you can just feel the creative energy and smell the brains brewing! This proves that the world needs designers!
Is Google Inc. losing its edge?
The search engine [...]

Yahoo! News . You Tube and Stock Quotes get bloated with Y! Expando

Now you can watch a full-sized You Tube video in the SRP (Search Results). Just click on the image in the search results and behold the magic of Expando:

EXPANDO YOU TUBE

EXPANDO STOCK QUOTE (awful timing now that the DOW plummeted.. again)

Yahoo! News . Yahoo SRP goes on a No Numbers Diet

This is the quickest and smallest “big cheese” search page on the web. On previous tests, I worked with the webdevs on a main sprite image (reducing image calls) and the team found a way to further reduce page weight by over 60%~!
I am very excited because we can hopefully achieve lightning [...]

Yahoo! News . Pièce de Assistance

Some new better browsing ideas that launched last night:

Travel Assist Module

Music Artist Assist Module

Search Assistance Layer

A few issues to be upset about

I don’t usually bring in political articles in an effort to keep the comment boards civil, but some of these issues in the past week or so have been pretty frustrating.
The Evil P2P Menace!
This CNET news article reports that Congress is now claiming P2P networks are a threat to national security. Why? Because a [...]

Yahoo! News . OMG! Yahoo! OMG!

Like totally like oh mah gaaaawwd.  It’s like Yahoo’s like latest entertainment site.  Dude it’s so key.  Check it out.  If you check it out, I’ll be your BFF 4ev.  If you don’t you’ll be like so lame I won’t even text you.
omg.yahoo.com

Culinary death threat love letters from China

Just counting down the time before China kills us, kills us ALL*! One way or another, it seems inevitable. And it seems so easy for them to do it too. Why?? Because we let them that’s why!! Greedy companies fail to investigate and inspect the Chinese companies they import from or else [...]

Yahoo! News . Be Better, Go Green, Win Cabs and Bulbs

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if zero emission vehicles were the norm? Well at least hybrids are gaining popularity, even though some owners are cited as “holier than thou” snobs.

Vancouver Canada’s Andrew Grant was the world’s first hybrid taxi driver back in 2000. Two ex-City lawyers recently started London-based Green Tomato Cars replete with [...]