Fascinating list of Google Tools possibilities. Try out the Google Trends link. Be sure to plug in some dirty phrases; I’m still convinced that is why ultimately Google refused to release its list of top searches. Dirty minds in a dirty world.
But anyway. Cool list of links just the same.
Check out the Google Zeitgeist of top hits. We suspect this has been modified since it is all clean. And especially this movie analysis: use the force Google!
Peace in.
I’m a Coppola fan, apparently: Full Metal Jacket is no way as good a flick as Apocalypse Now. Platoon (Oliver Stone) is even poorer, if you ask me (though it makes an interesting contrast with Martin Sheen in Coppola’s film since Charlie Sheen is the lead in Platoon). Saving Private Ryan, maybe, but that’s just an original story line plopped down in the thick of war flicks. I was surprised to read others’ Top 10 War Movies
: I couldn’t disagree more. Three Kings? What about Jarheads? And Apocalypse Now was groundbreaking: released in 1979, the scene of the cameraman appears again in Full Metal Jacket; nothing compares with the montage of the slaughter of Kurtz with the superimposed slaughter of the bull; and finally, everyone knows the Ride of Valkyries scene–that is just a piece of popular culture now. In sum: Coppola outdid both Stone and Kubrick. Hard to believe, yes; but true.
Pretty hilarious: the Evolution of Dance performed by one man in t-shirt, jeans and a belt. Fun-nee.
Now here is something you don’t see everyday: an entire site devote to Star Wars Asciimation. Did you catch that? A whole movie animated using ASCII art. How utterly bizarre.
I had a professor the other day who, tongue in cheek, consulted Wikidpedia live in class while at the same time said “can’t you get thrown out of library school for using Wikidpedia or sumpn’?” LOL.
I like wikidpedia if for no other reason it is extremely easy to search and contains current information. but I am also a healthy skeptic of what I read so taking articles with a grain of salt is nothing new to me. That could potentially be a problem for others but I never felt “at the mercy of web vandals” before. (or email: thank you Snopes.com).
Anyway, while I wouldn’t use wikidpedia to find information about George Bush(presuming it has been vandalized) my Japanese friend told me that the Japanese wikidpedia site has closed down the article on the Japanese flag. this surprised me as I never heard of wikidpedia doing that before.
So I checked the English version but there isn’t even a brief summary of the contention behind it. So I tried Neo-Naziand, while extensive and containing every seeming link to a neo-nazi group, it is still open to editing.
So then I tried Jew and voila! found a closed article.
Incidentally, the George Bush article is also closed. But I think it is important to note that these are only closed to “new” or “unregistered users”. So you certainly can’t make anonymous changes.
Wikidpedia’s openness to editing is its strength and its weakness. I feel it is a good test of community-ability on the web. it will be interesting to see how it fares over the next few years.