Archive for October 25th, 2008

John Naughton: Those clouds on the horizon are tomorrow’s technology (Guardian Unlimited)

If you want to track the zeitgeist, then Google Trends ( google.com/trends ) is a good place to start. Type in a search phrase and you get a graph showing how its popularity with Google searchers has varied. 'Sarah Palin' first appears in February, but queries about her bump along the floor until mid-August, when there's a sudden spike, and she's been up and down ever since. An ...

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

NASA: Google Gulfstreams not science experiments (The Register)

Fighter jet picks up slack Update from Spacemen Google's top execs have purchased a fighter jet and parked it at NASA's Moffett airfield because - contrary to their original agreement with NASA - the exec's four passenger jets are unsuited to running the space agency's earth science experiments. At least, that's the word from NASA.…

Saturday, October 25th, 2008