Monthly Archives: October 2004

Top 101 Useful Websites

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According to PC Magazine these are the top 101 useful websites. Your mileage may vary but there are probably some here that you have not yet realized need to be on your daily rounds.
Sree Sreenivasan says:

That’s what I keep preaching: You need to expand your Web travel horizons. If you only go to the places you already know and trust, you are likely to miss out on a lot of good and/or fun stuff.
Sree complains about navigating around the top 101 list:
What I didn’t like is the internal navigation on the list. Once you click into a category on the main list page, you’re reading about an individual site and you can get to others within the category (so far, so good). But if you use the provided navigation, you cannot easily get back to the master list; instead you end up on an older section of site, with out-of-date listings. So I had to keep using my browser’s back button to get to the master list.
He would find this pretty much a non-issue if he were using a modern tabbed browser, say, Firefox.

GLAT

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For the uninitiated GLAT stands for Google Labs Aptitude Test. Its been around for a while. Google appears to have posted this 4 page version back in September.
so why bring it up now. Well, a printed version is popping up on college campuses around the country right now. There are likely stacks of them in your local campus geek center or perhaps they were inserts in the campus newspaper today which is how I discovered them.
It is pretty entertaining to read the questions. Things like:

9. This space left intentionally blank. Please fill it with something that improves upon emptiness.
This one has the most room for an answer:
5. What’s broken with Unix? How would you fix it?
Some are multiple choice:
6. On your first day at Google, you discover that your cubicle mate wrote the textbook you used as a primary resource in your first year of graduate school. Do you:
Well, you can go read the choices yourself.

It Won’t Change My Vote

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Nope, nothing is going to change my vote now. The ballot is marked, sealed, and headed to the elections office via the USPS.
Those of you who have not voted yet might ponder just how many explosive attacks, be it car bombs, suicide belts, roadside bombs, etc., can be accomplished if you have 380 tons of high powered explosives at your disposal.
Shouldn’t someone have been fired long ago?
Via Matthew Gross.