Wolfram Alpha

An interesting development in search engines is WolframAlpha. If you're interested in signing up for this go to www.wolframalpha.com. They are only going to give it out carefully in the beginning I guess, but it doesn't hurt to sign up. Apparently it is going to use a lot of data mining techniques to bring up more accurate search results.

10 Ways to Design a Web Site (NYT)

Here is a NYT article about web site design. It's got some good reminders, for those of you thinking of creating a site. http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/10-ways-to-design-a-good-web-site/?em

The Petabyte Age

This was written a year ago, but is still one of the best articles out there on information overload in our age.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_intro

An amazing video

This is a mind-jarring video that is worth viewing. I'm not sure all the stats represented have been verified, so view it with caution. What a changing world we live in.

Betsy Sigman's Blog

I've been thinking about starting a blog for some time. Here I go. I'll try to keep up with it as much as possible, but I'm in the exam period right now, so I'll probably not be able to do too much with it until exams are graded and grades are out.