If you’ve visited Wikipedia today (or the Google homepage, or xkcd, or Wired, or WordPress) you’ll notice that they’re censoring their own sites to raise awareness for the SOPA and PIPA legislation.  From Wikipedia:

Wikipedia is protesting against SOPA and PIPA by blacking out the English Wikipedia for 24 hours, beginning at midnight January 18, Eastern Time. Readers who come to English Wikipedia during the blackout will not be able to read the encyclopedia. Instead, you will see messages intended to raise awareness about SOPA and PIPA, encouraging you to share your views with your representatives, and with each other on social media.

(Wikipedia has made available a page detailing why PIPA and SOPA are bad news).

xkcd.com also has a list of resources for some good (and easily digestible) information.

These are important pieces of legislation, and definitely merit contacting your representatives.  However (after you’ve educated yourself and done your part), if you’re in a pinch today and you absolutely need to read a Wikipedia article to understand Batesian mimicry or the etymology of goulash, there is a very easy workaround.  When you go to the article you want, you’ll notice it appear in your browser before Wikipedia’s SOPA/PIPA awareness page pops up.  Simply click the “stop” button in your browser after the article loads but before the awareness page pops up.  That’s it.

“A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.”

-Mark Zuckerberg

Eli Periser talks about the consequences of an internet individually tailored by algorithms:

From here:

Google is planning to launch an experiment that we hope will make Internet access better and faster for everyone. We plan to test ultra-high speed broadband networks in one or more trial locations across the country. Our networks will deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today over 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We’ll offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.

From now until March 26th, we’re asking interested municipalities to provide us with information about their communities through a Request for information (RFI), which we’ll use to determine where to build our network.

You know what would make for a perfect test community?

This video totally reminds me of one of my favorite people in the world, Rob.

<3Rob

Everyone knew that the new Android 2.1 powered Nexus One phone by Google was coming to T-mobile. What was still being speculated was whether or not it would be jumping to additional carriers. There are no longer any doubts, as Google has just officially announced that the Nexus One will be headed to Verizon Wireless and Vodaphone. Pics or it didn’t happen you say? I gotcha covered my friends.

Picture taken from Engadget’s live blog of the currently ongoing Google Android Press Release at CES 2010 in Vegas.

I saw this today and thought some Juicers might be interested in it.  I haven’t had time to really dig into it, but it looks cool.  I like that Google really strives to make information accessable to the masses.

Check it out.

I can’t get over how corny this is and how many times it was used in the show. This made me laugh for no good reason, but I’m glad it did.

Somebody did a study to see how people search (google) for this phrase. The results are hilarious.

4chan recently put the popular Twitter service out of commission after flooding them with the hashtag #Gorillapenis.

Via The Denver Post:

Has anyone heard anything / have an invite for Google Voice? An old co-worker of mine just got it and says its pretty sweet. Let me know ! I’ve just requested to be invited but don’t know if I will be invited or not!

As many of you know, you can refine your google searches by using quotations, addition signs, etc. You can also do things such as inurl:login.php, which will force the search results to be pages that are named login.php. I know several of these from past experience, but I just now decided to find a definitive list. Here is a great list of all the google search operators. I suggest bookmarking this for the future, it may come in handy one day!

From lifehacker.

1. Center Google maps on the place you’d like info for (right click > center map here).
2. Paste the following into your browser bar:
   javascript:void(prompt(”,gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));
3. Press ‘Enter’

Voila.  Provides 14 decimal places, in case you’re sending warheads.

After looking at some website activity, Choof noticed that Juice the Blog gets a majority of its activity from CincoPhones.

CincoPhones? Yes. Thanks to Fil’s post on CincoPhones, Juice the blog is the authority on Cinco phone activity. In fact, when searching google for CincoPhones, JTB is the first hit.

Not only that, but CincoPhone is also a google suggestion

It’s not all that interesting … I am just burning time between working. Back to work!

Google is one step closer to controlling the world. They have introduced their new service Google Latitude, a way to track your exact location in real-time. It’s very cool & very creepy at the same time. I wonder if it was just a coincidence that they released this AFTER Bush left office? Lemme know if anyone adds this to their phone, you know, so I can stalk you.

Try and find the deer running out into the middle of the road. Continue moving forward to find out what happens next!

Update: Looks like it’s experiencing a large amount of traffic (the page, not the deer). Google has taken it down, hopefully only temporarily.

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