Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL+F

This week, I talked with Dan Russell, a search anthropologist at Google, about the time he spends with random people studying how they search for stuff. One statistic blew my mind. 90 percent of people in their studies don't know how to use CTRL/Command + F to find a word in a document or web page! I probably use that trick 20 times per day and yet the vast majority of people don't use it at all.

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OK Go - “Muppet Show Theme Song”



OK Go - “Muppet Show Theme Song”



Under The Radar

Tom Waits Announces New Album


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Wooden iPhone Case


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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

The Ancient Aliens Guy


Really, no it isn't. Did he just wake up from a four day bender on an island? Click below to a funny collection of photos of the Ancient Aliens Guy.



Ancient Alien Guy Collection

The Snarky Underclass

t’s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds… If bookstores fall, America will be inundated with a wandering snarky underclass of unemployable purveyors of useless and arcane estoterica.”
John Hodgman, The Daily Show, on the closing of Borders bookstore chain.