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History of the internet dating all the way back to 1957, a lot of facts that i had no idea was even relevant to the internet. Its a good read.

Also see some writeup in Wikipedia

Read this:
“The internet was originally based on work done by Louis Pouzin in France, taken up by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn in the US in the 1970’s. The web however was invented and developed entirely by Tim Berners-Lee and a small team at CERN during 1989-1994. The story of the Internet and the Web can be read in “How the Web was born”. Perhaps not as sexy as “Angels and Demons”, but everything in “How the Web was born” was first-hand testimony and research.”

Made for personal use so that the google start page better fit the preferences. BTW: Blogger is a nice little webhost for things like this hehe.. (no ads)

I like it, If it was added to www.google.com/ig then it would be even better hehe..
Here’s another similar site in mind.

Now I’m getting some ideas for my customised design… hehehehhe….

Solve any Rubik’s cube online. Just enter in where all the colors are and it gives you step by step moves to solve it.

Rubik’s cubes are fairly easy to solve after memorizing 4 or so move combinations. Check out www.lar5.com if you want to actally learn how to do it yourself. Sure you could consider that cheating, but no one has to know.

There is a more popular cube solving program available for free which also supports webcams so you dont have to put in the colors yourself.

Optimal solvers havent been able to break the 18-20 move average (those numbers are from memory, they might be higher), that seems to be the lower bound. It is expected that the most scrambled state of the cube can be achieved in 20-25 moves (if I remember correctly).

www.speedcubing.com also has a lot of other Rubik’s cube links, info, solutions, unofficial world records, etc.

Anyway, it’ll save me from having to resort to a previous cheat.

Here’s a simple way of tagging photos with the location of where you took them on planet Earth. There are lots of ways to do this, and I’ll write about those later- but this is fun thing to do over the holiday weekend. As an added bonus- how to see your photos on a cool Mapping application called Mappr, as well as Google Earth…

Pretty neat but a lot of work. Check out QuakeMap - it will take your GPS track log and photos and automatically link the photos on a relief, topographic or aerial photo map - also is a great tool for geocaching.

You can use the plugin for Firefox: greasemonky plus a script I got off of GeoBloggers.

The GeoBloggers way of doing it is easy. You use firefox, get the Greasemonky plugin, then get the script from GeoBloggers. Then all you do is upload a photo to flickr, click “add geotags”, and use the resulting google maps page (with plugins now) to find the coordinates on the map. No GPS needed. You can do this with old images if you are sure of where they were taken. It’s VERY quick and easy to do it this way.

BTW, Geocaching is also great fun! I’m totally addicted.

Weather Maps lets you view real time weather information on a map. Most of the data comes from personal weather stations that are run from homes and schools. Weather Underground and Weather Bug are two of the major sites that compile this data. Incorporates webcams as well. Firefox is the preferred browser.

more stable version now available, lets you overlay radar transparency right on the google map.

The Google referral program (beta) is for businesses whose customers and visitors include small to medium-sized businesses, and who want to help those companies become more successful by running Google AdWords, or serving ads with Google AdSense. “Earn $20 for each advertiser or publisher you refer.”

By Invitation Only. If you have not received an invitation but would like to be notified of changes to the referral program, you may complete this application. Any one have an invite to send? If so, please reply in the comment and I’ll get back to you…

Thanks

This self-explanatory page will convert a Maps location to a KMZ file, and vice versa…not sure how useful this may be…but one example would be if you are working at a computer without GE and would like to save the places you found on Maps (or in reverse: if you want to print a true road map from Maps of a place you found with GE)

This is a plug-in that makes it so you can search google inside skype!

How do you display a tree structure using data from Google Maps? The article gives a step by step guided tour on how to do that.

Engadget has an article for progammers out there, google map is based on XML meaning one thing. It’s user hackable.