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 [...]

But Brokeback Mountain IS educational

Something about this case makes me chuckle. Chicago eighth graders were subjected to the horror that is forbidden rural man love when a substitute teacher slyly popped in Brokeback Mountain to educate the kids. “What happens in Ms. Buford’s class stays in Ms. Buford’s class,” the makeshift mentor allegedly said as the door [...]

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 [...]

Google News . New SRP on the rise

Not everyone will be able to see this new Google SRP (or Search Results Page aka: SERP/Search Engine Results Page), so I’ll just post it up here. It’s actually pretty fresh and I’m happy to see they’re venturing out of the “quicker is better” mentality and exploring a bit more, even though coworkers insist [...]

Yahoo! News . Kiss “the sky”, not “this guy”

According to wikipedia, a “mondegreen is the mishearing (usually accidental) of a phrase in such a way that it acquires a new meaning”, you know like “’scuse me while I kiss this guy” in lieu of “’scuse me while I kiss the sky” in Jimi Hendrix’s famous Purple Haze. There are abundant mondegreens at [...]

TECH TALK . Intel flashes the world

I guess that’s supposed to be a rather good thing, well better than their very literal multi-tasking dancy TV ads. Intel unleashed news that the major makeover for its Centrino Laptop platform is the company’s very first foray into flash memory chips. Flash chips you say? Yay I say. The new [...]

Bye Bye Blair

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair announced today that he will resign on June 27th. He is the only one in UK history besides Margaret Thatcher to last a full 10 years in office. Even though most of the country distrusts him (similar to our country’s leader’s falling popularity rating) he holds steadfast to [...]

TECH TALK . Hey I hacked your password

Hey, if your password is “password”, well then maybe you deserve to be hacked. That may be the mantra of deviants who have nothing better to do all day but try to topple other people’s accounts. Apparently, you don’t even have to set up a phishing site, just plug in any one of [...]

Yahoo! News . Don’t bet on Auctions

Next month, Yahoo! Auctions will join Yahoo! Photos in the site cemetery. Buried by the successful eBay, Auctions really didn’t have much of a chance at being a major player because at this point in time, no one does. eBay secures more than 94% of total online auctions with Amazon’s auctions at approximately [...]

Yahoo! News — Yahoo! Travel Summer makeover

Yahoo! Travel just publicly launched their very helpful javascript-loaded redesign — just in time for Summer Vacation plans.. well, for slacker last-minuter bookers! There are all kinds of nifty gadget modules and personalized Trip Recommendations and Reviews galore. There’s a cool new section entitled “Today’s Picks for You” which is just that — [...]

The Hagia Sophia collapsed

The Hagia Sophia, otherwise filed in a space in my collegiate brain under “Christ, another thing I half memorized and forgot”, may not need such a big space anymore. The immense gorgeously sunlit Byzantine dome (31 meters/102 feet diameter, 56 meters/184 feet high) of the Hagia Sophia crumpled early this morning following an earthquake. [...]

Butter kills… even if you just sniff it

Popcorn workers lung is no laughing matter, in fact, those affected can barely laugh at all. Bronchiolitis obliterans is a rare irreversible form of lung disease which rapidly suffocates the afflicted by destroying his/her lungs. A lung transplant is the only cure. Over the past five years over $100 million in lawsuit [...]

The $10 Laptop

No, no I am not missing a couple of zeros, engineers in India are attempting to build a complete portable computer for TEN BUCKS. This idea stemmed from disparaging laments over the increasing price of the OLPC laptop (held up by Brazil’s president Luiz Lula, pictured left) or One Laptop Per Child project which [...]

“Fisher Price Man” in new Greenaway movie

Peter Greenaway is one of my favorite all-time film directors and I’m extreeeemely excited about his latest film (in post production as we speak, er type), Nightwatching.
Nightwatching is a story about master painter Rembrandt and the pivotal point in his life when he becomes entangled in a political conspiracy after reluctantly taking on [...]