This fairly decent chart explains the relationships between the search sites; they explain where the results come from (but not who owns what...) . (I hope for their sake that it is easy to update.)
I'm surprised I haven't pointed out these wonderful objects: PixelBlocks, pictured here in full translucent color. They're a next generation Lego, and they look like so much fun. Here's .
Google has registered a number of misspellings that forward to their main site: Gogole, Gooogle, Gogle, ww.Google.com, 466453 (my favorite -- look at your phone pad), and Elgoog. Do you know of any others?
The scientists working on the Mars Mission has custom mechanical Mars watches made that meek Martian Time. You can from the guy who made them for the JPL team.
“I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired. This should lead to radically improved intelligence and creativity. The only cost: turning your back on every convention of social life.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)